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Erikson updates progress on No Life Forsaken, Witness Book 3, Walk in Shadow, new B&KB

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Posted 31 July 2024 - 08:45 PM

Erikson has posted a status update on all his upcoming Malazan projects on his Facebook page.

TLDR:
1. No Life Forsaken (Witness Book 2) has been submitted to his publisher.
2. The Witness Trilogy is now a 4 book series.
3. Witness Book 3 is his current project. It is about 75% done, heavily focuses on Malazan marines, and should be complete in 1-2 months.
4. Next project is the 8th and penultimate Bauchelain & Korbal Broach novella. He expects it to take a week to write.
5. Then he will complete Walk in Shadow (Book 3 of the Kharkanas Trilogy).

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No Life Forsaken, Part One (the first book) has just been sent to my publisher. Part Two is about 75% done and I intend on completing that asap while that setting is still fresh in my head. I expect that'll take about a month, two at the most. Once clear, Ill spend a week writing the eighth Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella. Those roll out quickly and serve as a good palate-cleanser. Immediately following that, I will be turning my attention to Walk in Shadow, the third Kharkanas book. I already have a chunk of it done, but plenty more that still needs to be written. It will take as long as it takes.

Fall of Light, the second novel in the Kharkanas trilogy, was published in 2016. Almost nobody noticed. Very few bought it. The Kharkanas trilogy was getting very little commentary and the books were not selling. Since the Witness Trilogy was already common knowledge as contractually signed on, I was getting a lot of questions on it in interviews. All the anticipation seemed to be on Witness, and virtually none on the Kharkanas trilogy.

Who was asking all these questions about the Witness trilogy? Fans. So, in agreement with my publishers, we shifted over to the Witness Trilogy.

Since then, I have been deluged with being asked about -- you guessed it -- the Kharkanas trilogy. Which I'd set aside in 2016, and in terms of writing, 2015. Nine years ago. Uh, okay, where were you in 2016? The answer, of course, is 'elsewhere.' And that's fine. I get it, and needless to say I am very appreciative that there's so much recent interest in the Kharkanas trilogy. It'll give me the necessary boost when writing Walk in Shadow.

But here's the thing. I'm not late to any particular discovery. I've been here all along. Try stepping into my shoes and seeing things from my perspective. There's only one of me and I'm doing the best I can; while I didn't expect the Witness trilogy to get an extra novel, that's how it's turned out. You all get a bonus book for that series, and it's all about Malazan marines to boot.

So, folks. When I make an announcement about completing the second novel in the Witness trilogy, and get someone in the comments section ignore that and instead asks me about Kharkanas and only Kharkanas ... well, I walk to the nearest wall and start banging my head against it.

Oh well, such is the world. And for what it's worth, my exasperation is now out of my system. And I can go back to my usual response when being asked 'when is Walk in Shadow coming,' which is to say: 'can't say exactly when, but it'll get done.'

2016 was a lifetime ago, right? But here's the kicker. For some of you, the answer might be just that. A lifetime ago. Alas, the older one gets, the more the past compresses, one year crunching up against the next.

So, for me, 2016 feels like last year.

Can't say exactly when, folks, but it'll get done.




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Posted 31 July 2024 - 09:16 PM

Nothing worse than getting the same questions over and over again. I can feel his frustration
How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
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Posted 14 September 2024 - 01:11 AM

The next Bauchelain & Korbal Broach novella is Time's Cursed Cartwheel (as told by Avas Didion Flicker).
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Posted 23 November 2024 - 07:48 PM

Erikson's 23 November 2024 update:

1. Witness Book 3 is completed and turned in.
2. Work on the next Necromancer novella has been put off in favor of Walk in Shadow.


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General update. So I spent five weeks in Italy (Sicily and Venice), during which I completed the 'bonus' novel for the Witness trilogy (which will now have four books), and have delivered it to my agent. I also completed a revision of another novel as yet undisclosed (but not Malazan, and it's stand-alone and may never see the light of day). While productive the trip also ended on a down-note, as most of the time in Venice was spent being sick with the latest iteration of Covid. Anyway, the intention was to write the eighth Bauchelain and Korbal Broach novella next, but I'm not in the mood. Accordingly, I am now working on Walk in Shadow, the last book of the Kharkanas trilogy. I'm in the mood for that. To conclude, thanks for your patience, and apologies for being incommunicado of late. Cheers, SE PS: oh, and the small hilltop town of Tusa, Sicily is built on -- you guessed it -- potsherds.

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Posted 24 November 2024 - 06:49 PM

In the comments section of that same post, Erikson reported that Witness Book 3 is titled Legacies of Betrayal.
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Posted 25 November 2024 - 06:41 AM

Side question: Did the last B&KB story ever get a proper publishing? The handwritten one.
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Posted 25 November 2024 - 12:13 PM

Yes and no. He finished it all on Facebook with 106 handwritten pages, and the usual collector's edition was published by PS Publishing in 2021. Still no wider release by Bantam/Tor yet, though.

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Posted 25 November 2024 - 02:03 PM

Ah thanks. I wonder if they'll just wait to do a "Third Collected Tails" for the wide release.
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Posted 25 November 2024 - 03:24 PM

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Posted 25 November 2024 - 03:28 PM

What I want to know is when these books will be out. Hopefully before our leaders have us larping Fallout.
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