Excelsior*
I’ve finally completed the first draft and very honestly (not to mention incredibly modestly), I’m most pleased with the result.
This one is only Novella length (24,860 words), but the nature of this story doesn’t really lend itself to all the extended blood and gore of the first six novels in the series.
Begins now the proofreading and editing chore, and then onward to the search for a publisher.
* Latin, meaning “ever upward” or “still higher.”