I have started the fifth book of the series. My outline is complete. I am still mulling over a title for this book. As soon as I decide upon a title, I’ll put together a cover and post it here. I’m about 90% sure this will be the last book of the series. With that said, I have plans to leave a potential continuation of the story. Judging by the amount of time it takes me to write and edit a book, I would say this one will be available in early January. However, I have plans to push myself a little harder to get this out by mid-December. Here’s to hopin’ the stars align!

• Current rough draft word count: 68,189 as of 11/25
• Edit story structure – done
• Edit for “show don’t tell”, awkward sentences, etc. – done.
• Edit for grammar and spelling (multiple passes) – done.
• Prepare book for Amazon Kindle (Paperback and eBook). – eBook is Live! Paperback in progress.

Update 11/18/2021

I am deep into the editing of the book and expect it to be available the first week of December. Here is a sneak peek at the tentative cover and title (I adjusted the position of the dropship to prevent title overlap):

Other notes: This will complete this series, but… there is an opening for a continuation of the story in a new series. Also, there are many potential spin-off stories that could I write in the future. Including a series of stories that could occur when humans first ran into the Arcnal civilization. I have specifically set up Mac’s daughter to be a protagonist in future stories. Then there’s Mac himself. Will he be advanced to Admiral? Not a chance! Anyone who has seen the sequence of Star Trek movies knows the mistake they made by turning Captain Kirk into an Admiral. That was painful.

I have two rough outlines for a prequel to this series. Unfortunately, I’m not happy with either one. So, I’ll just keep hashing out ideas for the prequel book and someday I’ll start writing that one.

If you have comments, ideas, thoughts about the story, you can contact me at frank@galacticcorebooks.com.