It’s been a while…

A few people lately have been asking when the next Thieves’ Guild book is going to be out… and finally, I feel that I can say that I’m working on it.

The past two or three years have been tricky for a number of personal reasons I won’t bore you with, but it has all left me in a head space that has not been conducive to anything never mind writing. I’ve always poured genuine hurt and anger, defiance and belligerence into my Thieves’ Guild books, and I’ve used all that stubborn wilful determination as fuel. Despair is a much more draining emotion and as much as I’ve tried to fight it, I didn’t want any of that to seep into my stuff, especially not at this point in the story.

And, I have to admit, I’ve been trying to write the wrong book again. It’s not the first time this has happened. After the end of Four, I launched into the next book and struggled to make it work. The story I was telling didn’t feel right, wouldn’t flow and as much as I knew what was happening, it wouldn’t take on that life of its own which is when I know it’s working. This story turned into Book 4.5 which will happen at some point, but I had to take a step back. That’s when I knew that Kheris and Redemption needed to be told. Once I’d got those out of my system, Five as it needed to be with LC happened before I knew it.

So I’ve spent the past two years with NG, and while we both know what’s going on, it hasn’t felt quite right. This is also not the first time I’ve been stuck in the telling of a story. Half way through Winter, LC didn’t want to go through the rest of that story so we stayed in the mountains on Winter for a full summer before he got to the point of being able to continue.

I’m now back with Hil, and while all the stuff with NG does happen, it doesn’t happen just yet. We have some other stuff to work through first.

I won’t give word counts because I can ditch 20k words easily, and have done many times going right back to Two, and I don’t have a definite date or event to aim for but that might reveal itself as I am starting to go out and about a bit more again.

Thank you for being patient with me and thank you for the nudges. We’ll all get there when we do, as in everything in life.

CGH xx