NEW PROJECT!

It's been a while since my last update. After releasing BALOR, I took a few months off to decompress, because that was a very challenging project. I did release Volume Five of THE JERUSALEM CHRONICLES, which is available on Amazon. Aside from that, I just enjoyed not writing for a spell, though of course my imagination was always hard at work, percolating ideas for my next project.

And now, I've begun my next project, though it isn't the scifi/fantasy epic EMPYREUS that I had been planning. No, it's a **SECRET** project that has been bouncing around in my head for several months, and I decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did - after only a couple of weeks, I'm already 15% finished with the first draft. I'm hoping to have the draft finished by the end of January and the edits done soon after that for an April release.

What is this secret project, you ask? Well, I can't tell you, because you would laugh. Seriously. I'm not even going to use my real name for this project because it is such a drastic departure from my usual work, and I don't want people to get confused when they go to my Amazon page. I won't tell you what the book is about, but I will give you this: my pen name is Michael Winstell. So be on the lookout for Michael Winstell's fiction debut next spring.

As I'm working on this project, I'm still going to be outlining and plotting EMPYREUS, so when I've gotten this latest book out of my system, I'll be ready to jump back into the heavy stuff that Mark Carver is (not yet) famous for.

Sorry to leave you hanging, but that's all for now!