A Quick Update

 It is not my intent to write a long post but merely assure my readers about what all is going on right now.  I last gave notice on WRITER'S LIFE that I finished my second book of my WARRIORS OF CHRISTENDOM trilogy, THE STORMING RAGE, which continues from the first of the three that most of you by now are familiar with, KINGS AND CRUSADERS. Now as you know I am working on my last piece of this section, THE FINAL JOURNEY. This ending book has shown more intense qualities than the previous two. Unlike it's predecessors, each scene has been very quick into what I would call  ''The important stuff.'' It follows Richard I of England, Peter de Preaux, Sultan Saladin of Syria and others. It does not include King Guy though who had been in the first two books. I'm not going to say any further about the book here since I will mention more about it in my next post. What I have to say right now is that the book is now more than 500 pages long. Compared to the other two that may seem short, but only about half right now is so far finished. However, it is my fastest book to ever cross the 500 page mark, despite these last weeks being slow due to me working on other stories at the same time. It is not yet May and by this point I am about twice ahead to where I was at this point when writing the second book and over three times as much as I had been when doing  the first book. So far the scheduled date is to finish this by some time in November at a mass of about a 1000 pages. If things go as they had in 2011 with the first book, that means this coming Summer may be a great time for writing.