Armored Piercing Operations

I've been working more on AP4 than AP3 lately, even though AP3 hasn't been published yet. I finished my 1st draft for AP3 in 2014 and started the current draft for AP4 in 2017. It will near 8 years since starting AP4 and I really want to be done with it soon. AP1/AP2 have been my most successful and most reviewed books to date. I don't want to keep fans waiting for so long, but this series is very hard to write for in comparison to one-off books like Nibowin: The Island of Death or The Raid of Hotel Laurier.

I surpassed 1100 pages for AP4. Things story-wise are moving at a fast pace. But one of the most difficult parts of writing this book is how complex the story is. There are a lot of moving parts and I've made many notes to keep track of different storylines. I keep forgetting details from early on in the book and I think I'll have to reread the whole book before finishing it. Maybe I'll write a blog about how hard it is to write a book with multi-level storytelling. Even AP3 will be tough to finish. My outline for changes for that book is about 17 pages now, and that only covers the first 300 or so pages. If I ever work on a different series, I'll try to keep it simpler to make it easy on myself.

I'm very close to publishing a new book soon. After that, I should probably spend more time on getting more AP books out. I've been going back and forth on whether I want to make spin-off books. I'm not keen on doing prequels, but it could bring more eyes to the series. I dunno.

I think I'm gonna split AP3 into multiple parts. It's going to take a very long time to type up the whole thing, so it's better I split it. This will extend the number of entries in the series to above 5 books, but it's been almost 4 years since I published any new AP books. If I work at it, I could have Part 1 done by the end of this year.