The Deadly Design is still being edited. I am currently working on the rough draft for Shadows in the Bloodline, which is a Daphne Blazefire book under my real name (Frank DeCaire). I anticipate that The Deadly Design will be published in the first or second week of June. I plan to crank up the Ads next week, for the first four books. Maybe that’ll happen on May 28th, 2025. I still want to collect statistics to see how these books will perform. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, if the first five books earn a profit, I’ll write the next five books, bringing the set to a total of 10 books. If they don’t do well, then I’ll have to come up with a new strategy. That would probably involve a new mystery series. Not that I’m not going to another mystery series in the future, because there’s a greater than 99% chance that’ll happen.
Shadows will take about two months to complete. I’m 7% into the rough draft (as of this post). By then, I should have some stats on these books, and that will drive my decision on when I’ll start on the next Q Mystery book.