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Any news on Peace Talks
tromedlov87:
--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on March 13, 2019, 02:24:52 AM ---Yes, and Skin Game and Ghost Story each had 51 chapters, though Ghost Story had over 10,000 more words than Skin Game. So now that Jim has reached chapter 49 he must be getting near the final boss battle chapter, if he isn't there already.
However, I wouldn't be surprised if Peace Talks has as many chapters and words as Cold Days because there are a large number of potential subplots for Harry to deal with, no matter how well Jim can combine them into a single story.
I've commented on this topic before. One day, several years ago, while waiting for Cold Days to be released I started going back through Jim's twitter feed to see when he had announced, "The end. I just finished (fill in the blank), now it goes to the publisher for ..." Then I compared that date with the release date of that particular book. I went back as far as Jim's Twitter feed went. What I found was most of his books were released within 9 months after Jim's Twitter announcement. There were some noticeable exceptions. I think one book took a year or a little longer to be released. Another was published just 3 1/2 months later; however, I believe Jim said that novel (I think it was Changes.) had already been very heavily pre-edited before he sent it to the publishers so both the publishers and Jim had much less work to do to get that one ready and out the door. I think there was one other book that was released about 5 months after Jim's "The end" announcement. There were also one or two books that were released within 6 to 8 months after Jim announced he had finished.
That's why I think it's likely we will get Peace Talks in time for Christmas. Here in the U.S., publishers like to get best selling books out by the end of November to maximize sales during the Christmas season. So unless Peace Talks needs a ton of editing and rewrites, the publisher will do their best to get it out before the end of 2019.
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Yeah, I'm feeling this too. I won't be upset or anything if it doesn't happen, but things to seem to be lining up for the book to release before the end of this year. Unless Peace Talks turns out to be MUCH longer than every other book in the series, which I think is unlikely.
Maz:
CHAPTER FIFTY!!!
wardenferry419:
A Halloween release may still be possible.
Dina:
--- Quote from: Maz on March 22, 2019, 06:57:37 PM ---CHAPTER FIFTY!!!
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:D :D
KurtinStGeorge:
After doing a couple of chapters in 4 days each, this last one took Jim 10 days to knock out. I'm hoping that extra time needed to finish this last chapter indicates it was the final boss battle chapter; meaning the next chapter will be the book's denouement, the final chapter; or alternatively, it was the chapter that leads into the final boss battle, and that would mean there were only two chapters left for Jim to finish.
If there are only two chapters left, that could mean Jim is about 2 weeks; give or take a couple of days, from the finish line. (He said with fingers crossed for luck.)
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