This was due partly to a lack of experience and partly to the fact that I had finished versions of the series back when I was a teenager. When I published Theonite: Planet Adyn in 2016, I didn’t think for a moment that I was starting a series that I couldn’t finish. I was telling you what I thought was the truth. To everyone who’s followed the Theonite books up to this point, I’m so sorry I’m not able to deliver more at this point, and I’m especially sorry for insisting for so long that more books were coming. I’m putting a freeze on the Theonite series and all its spin-offs, including Flameless, Jamuttaana, and Rage and Whisper. And continuously trying to spin-off from a story that itself isn’t working is not a good strategy.
Between the size of Theonite’s cast, the breadth of its world, and the complexity of some of its content, I’m just not ready to pull it all together.
I may have had fun ( so much fun!) working on my various spin-offs this year, even nearly finishing some, but fun doesn’t constitute a cohesive universe.
During my most recent boom of productivity (ironically, on Theonite 3), I came to an important realization about the Theonite universe. If you’ve been following this newsletter over the past year, you know that since The Sword of Kaigen came out, I’ve struggled to write the third Theonite book, kicked around half a dozen spin-off ideas, and struggled more. Honestly, this felt like writing an email about how someone had died (don’t worry, no one has. This is an announcement and a letter of apology.Īnd god, this was hard.
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