Status Update - Book 3: Fourth Draft Complete

I have completed my fourth draft for Book 3 of the Stormfall Chronicles. The word count has grown from 128,000 words at completion of the third draft, to 132,000 words now.

At this point, I'm pretty satisfied with the general flow and story line for the book, although it will still require some polishing.

Rather than completing another front-to-back proof-read and re-edit of the book, before handing any chapters off to my beta-readers, I'm currently leaning towards handing-off copies on a chapter-by-chapter basis throughout the fifth edit cycle. In other words, the fifth edit would occur concurrently with the first beta-read of the book.

Looking forward to it.