Chapter Twenty-Seven of The Final Calling is now online.

I'm $39.61 short of paying for Chapter Twenty-Eight.

The writing's gotten a bit weird. I'm nominally writing Chapter Thirty-Three, but it's running very long, and there's a natural break-point a few pages back, so I'm thinking I may actually be writing either Chapter Thirty-Four or Chapter Thirty-Five -- I might either just split this one, or split it and then insert one from another viewpoint between the two halves.

I'm already well over 100,000 words, which was my original target for the finished book.

I don't know how many chapters it will be; every time I make an estimate, the confounded thing gets longer. My best guess is thirty-six to forty, but I wouldn't put too much faith in that. I'm going to write until it's done, then stop, however long that may be.

(Yes, I do know where I'm going. It's just taking longer to get there than I expected.)

As mentioned elsewhere, the fine folks at Wildside Press don't think The Final Calling is a grabber title for readers who don't already know what the Calling is. I think they're right. Therefore, we're looking for a new, catchier title, and so far the leading contender is Allen Dobkin's suggestion, The Unwelcome Warlock.

I won't be re-titling the serial, though -- that would be too confusing. It stays The Final Calling, but I'm warning everyone here and now that the finished book may well be called something else.

Guess that's everything for this week. Hope everyone's surviving the harsh weather that seems to be hitting pretty much everywhere.