This series has a bit of a strange organization. (For spoiler-ish reasons, I can't say why.) That should finish up the novel, save for the interludes, which I'm planning to do a little later. I'm at around 62k words as of last night, with a goal of having 90-100k done by January First. So, how's that looking? Well, book is on target writing-wise. However, I've acknowledged to the publisher that if the book needs more than normal revisions (IE, something pops up in alpha/beta that takes work to fix) and I miss any deadlines, I'll agree to a spring 2022 release instead. However, I think it's best to push a little to get the book done in time for next year-as Skyward fans have been required to wait while I did a Stormlight book in between. (Publishers would generally like an 12-18 moth lead time after book turn in to publication, and this one will have around ten months or so.) This took some work on our part, and me agreeing to some pretty tight deadlines, as covid has caused delays all through the industry and the publisher wasn't excited by the prospect of me forcing a relatively early publication date. The good news is that the publisher (Delacorte, a Random House imprint) has agreed to publish the book Christmas 2021. Which is good, as Dawnshard took a little more time from me than I'd wanted, so timing is a little tight on Nowhere.

As I said in the first update, my outline for this book was quite solid, which let me jump right into the story with very little lost time. I've been working away on this book, slowly but surely, with progress every week. This update might have slight spoilers for the first two books in the series. Hello! Brandon here again with another update on the third Skyward book, tentatively titled NOWHERE.

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