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The 2015 April Fool's joke on this site is starting to look like not a joke :/

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Griffyn612:

--- Quote from: noquiexis on May 14, 2017, 12:04:56 PM ---     Speculation and Wild Ass Guesses are the meat and bones of this forum. What is actually written in the books has been picked apart to the "N-th degree". The very day that Cold Days came out, people were already asking when the next book would be ready.

     There may be twenty dozen reason why Peace Talks is not already on the shelves. Some of those reasons may be personal. Many artists have held back a work because the time was not right for it. With a lack of hard information, speculation is all we have.

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I think the point is, WAGs about his fictional world are cool.  WAGs about his personal life are not.

jamescagney22:
I think the nature of the internet has made everyone forgetful about perspective and exacerbates instant gratification that people can't see the forest for the trees. The average book wait for popular series is about two-four years even without other projects or personal matters and that is not even taking into account quality of said books. I mean A Feast of Crows and a Dance for Dragons took five years in publication and nothing happens except setting up for events that may eventually happen in the next book in maybe six years later. The supposed main villains the White Walkers make about two appearances, (no seriously I am not kidding two) and has the most boring and least impactful character in contemporary fantasy in Quentyn Martell. In Cold Days Harry fights Outsiders with Santa Claus, and in Skin Game pulls a heist into Hell. Granted having the premise of Peace Talks be who would win in a fight between who, does not help the geekiness in us all but we have been lucky so far that the books have been published yearly and even more so that they have been increasing in quality which I thought was impossible for a book that had a zombified T Rex in it but humility is a virtue just like patience is   

LoopyGuru:
I'm a complete amateur regarding posting links or anything like that but there are some vids of Jim from the PhoenixCom on youtube where he discusses progress on Peace Talks and his future writing plans.  The main one I focused on was posted by Priscilla Spencer (maybe somebody less inept than me could put a link on here?).

If you want to skip to the meat of that discussion it kicks in at 13:12.  In summary he says;
- he needs to get a suitable workplace up and running, but he is hoping to move into his new house on 30th June, whereupon he will attempt to complete the following;
  - First a short story told from the POV's of Harry, Maggie and Mouse about Maggie's first trip to a zoo.  Upon completion, that and all short stories not in Side Jobs will be released as Brief Cases.  No timetable but clear implication that the publishers want it out soon,
  - Then Peace Talks, followed by Cinder Spires 2, followed by first Maggie young adult novel, followed by Mirror Mirror.  Again no timelines but he sounded very confident that once he has his writing zone back in place he will get his mojo back.

Feeling quite positive after watching that!

Edit: just noticed there is an entire thread on this on the spoilers page so please ignore this dumb post.  Dagnabbit! :-)

Korwin:
Huh, did'nt know he is divorced...

Tritium:
TL;DR - his housing situation sucks, so hes not writing as fast as he (and James Marsters) wants.

PHCC talks indicate that he is living with his fiance, in a house she bought with her own money, so he doesn't feel he has the moral authority to tell everyone to "Shut up and go away" for him to write.  On top of that he is dealing with having his house built - a construction project that is 15 months behind schedule.  He is making writing progress on peace talks but its going at a snails pace.  Once he moves in (11 days from the date of this post, assuming the contractor didn't slow down again), he should be able to get back into a good writing pace.

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