All righty! Revisions and edits for Compline are now underway. I actually considered waiting till April for this, but with so many notes and with the ideas still fresh in my head, I figured now's much better than later. That'll free up more time in the second half of April (or sooner) for additional rounds of edits before I can finally send this baby out for distribution.
An additional update is this:
This is my publishing calendar for 2026, which isn't the same as what I had on my Book News page for the last year.
What's missing here is the cover art for The Bells of St. Mark's Eve, which was originally scheduled before Doppelgänger. And it's because I decided to pull the book and declare it dead.
The reason for that is it follows too closely the same plot beats as Compline, and I didn't even realize it till yesterday, if you can believe it. It was also planned to be a contemporary story that's also a comedy, the polar opposite of Compline, but way too many elements in the current book are needed for the latter book to work.
I'd rather not start from scratch and redo all my notes for The Bells of St. Mark's Eve. I already have so many planned books in the pipeline, and what'll happen is Camera Obscura will now be a part of my 2026 calendar. At least I can say with confidence that all the books after Compline are unique in plot, and none will echo another. I'd rather have my books be criticized as weird than cookie-cutter.
To be fair, though, I do gravitate toward certain types when it comes to my MCs, but at least my plots don't give readers more of the same (and I hope they never will). I've updated the necessary pages of my site to reflect these changes.
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