The Lords of Sargoff Trilogy

I have developed a somewhat detailed outline for books two and three in my Lords of Sargoff fantasy series. Each book's outline currently has 17 chapters. In contrast, the original outline for the first book, back a few years ago, had 7 chapters, and the book itself now has 31. The outlines for books two and three are more detailed and the story is more developed, and I currently have no idea how long the books may end up being in comparison.

Developing the outline for the rest of the series (which I currently think will be limited to 3 books) has allowed me to go back into book one, and add some things to help tie the entire series together. I've actually already written a few chapters for book two. Last year, I think, I had written chapter one for book two, and that chapter will now become chapter one for book three. Currently, book two is titled The Blood of the Queen, and book three is title Myridium. But that may certainly change as the books get written.

One of my goals while writing the first book was not to use too many fantasy cliches. While I know you can't really escape them completely, I really tried not to have the book be just like every fantasy novel ever written. I've now tried to come up with other things that will make the story interesting for books two and three, and not just be a rehashing of book one. I think it will work pretty well, but those of you who will read those books will be the judge of that.

But that'll be a while. :)

On a side note, at my last report, my Authonomy ranking for The Second Shadow was 491, and over the last couple months it has gone down to 243. Who knows if it will ever get into the top 5, but at least it's making progress.