With the whole discussion regarding unfinished works, I felt that perhaps a status update for book 5 of the Heaven's Light Saga should be put up for anyone curious. It's been a wacky year so far between more work changes and things with family (such as my mom being in and out of the hospital five times since Christmas), so the book hasn't made as much progress as I'd hoped. However Part 1 is almost drafted, needing just one fae party scene (whee!) to finish it out, and the framework for the rest of the major beats through to the ending are mostly figured out.

This book was somehow even harder to get moving than the last one, having had at least four false-start fully drafted chapters tossed to the way-side while trying to find the best place/scene to launch. But eventually the 'right' one hit the page and the following chapters began to align properly so with any luck (and inspiration from the muse!) the rest can now proceed and fall into place. Maybe I'm weird but I don't seem happy with trying to write chapters out of order. I need to know what happened previous before I feel I can proceed as the muse likes to pull rabbits out of hats in the middle of typing scenes I thought were already worked out in my head - usually thereby turning out prose much better than initial conceptions had dared dream.

Anyway, sorry that it's still going to be awhile before anything becomes publishable - but I *am* working on it. It's still very much an obsession (as friends of mine will attest) which certainly won't go away until the whole kit-and-caboodle is finished.

And if you missed the postings of the completed Book 4 Light And Shadow last fall (as I suspect there may be a few who have), please do check it out! Or read the saga from the very beginning if you happen to like spirits, fae, dragons, angels, and of course the occasional apocalypse. :)

Thanks!
Erisian <3

P.S. Fortunately it looks like a week or so ago they may have finally figured out the main source of painful difficulties which were plaguing my mom - namely overlooked gallstones. She has too many other ongoing issues so unfortunately it took the doctors half a dang year to realize it.