Just marking this as the day it occurred to me that the Streets of Flame Quartet may need to become a quintet.
This all relies on very, very raw turns of events in HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT, which only exist in my head and a notebook, so all of this is highly abstract and none is guaranteed. But I was thinking about how best to get the book done, and it occurred to me that the fourth act would have an awful lot of potential to get big, but it wasn’t clear that it could be a prologue for the next book… but maybe it could be its own book.
This would make the prospect of getting HEATSTROKE HEARTBEAT done this year a lot more straightforward, because the draft could be done in probably 5-10K and I could be editing by March. The question is really whether what I’m imagining for what would now be Book 4 can sustain a novel’s worth of words. NONA THE NINTH did it; but “be Tamsyn Muir” is a tricky business model, and arguably taken.
CURRENTLY READING: SUPERGIRL, WOMAN OF TOMORROW, by Tom King and Bilquis Evely.
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