Update- Destiny of the Daystar

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Just a quick update this week. I continue to write more than I ever have. In my last post, as of October 3 (Thursday), I reached 45,636 words in Destiny of the Daystar (book 4 of my Absolution of the Morning Star series). As of last night (10/12), I reached 87,474! That’s 41,838 words in ten days (or 4,184 a day, four times my normal). If I can continue at this rate, I should finish the first draft in early November, giving me about two months to edit and have the book out in January.

I’m super excited, but I am even more thrilled with how the story is developing—especially with a relatively new character, Princess Margaret the White, Erikson Gray’s cousin. I mentioned her in passing in The Mourning Son and Noonday in the North, but she becomes a point-of-view character in Destiny of the Daystar as another Zulikaarme vying for the crystal throne. Margaret has become a complete joy to write, and I’m excited to introduce her to you because she will be very important in these last three books.

Well, that’s all I have to post today. I’m endeavoring to insulate my basement, and I have a lot of work to do before I can get back to writing. Luckily, it is a dark and dreary day here in Boston, so I’m not missing out on the beautiful fall weather locked in my dank basement, putting up sheets of high-density foam. Wish me luck!

Cheers!

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Scott Austin Tirrell writes dark fantasy because apparently the real world doesn't contain enough dead people, ruined faiths, and gods with questionable motives. Most of his stories take place in Lucardia, a world with a long memory and a rather serious problem with its dead. Its people have been taught many comforting things about history, religion, power, and what happens when the reaper’s sickle swings. Unfortunately, much of it is wrong. Scott is less interested in heroes than in complicated people who stumble into mysteries they probably should have left alone—and then have to live with what they find. When he isn’t writing, Scott wanders old cemeteries in search of character names and thinks about fictional people as though they have personally inconvenienced him. He lives near Boston with his wife and maintains a healthy distrust of ravens.

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