Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ...

On 8/5/2025 4:24 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/5/25 13:19, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 8/29/2022 4:39 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>  From David Weber's Facebook:
>>>
>>> https://www.facebook.com/david.weber.5621/posts/ 
>>> pfbid02FjnvX56nzzcej5PLiPn6n4fy6KHygEm2LVihw38KXcGyYLAD1sDCSaQpLPoXWKuDl
>>>
>>> "Um. I posted this as a comment in a conversation about unfinished 
>>> series and storylines that would probably never be completed on one 
>>> of the TRMN pages, and someone suggested I should make it more 
>>> broadly available, so …..
>>> ———-
>>> Okay, I am looking to the future of the Honorverse and several of the 
>>> other series I have going. There almost certainly WILL be at least 
>>> one, and probably 2-3, more novels in the Honorverse, following END 
>>> IN FIRE's merger of the main series and the Crown of Slaves series. 
>>> They won't be written with ERIC (which i hate) but he and I always 
>>> knew exactly where the books were going, and they will go there. It 
>>> is possible that the collaborator I have in mind will also replace ME 
>>> before the end of the journey (as someone said, I am --- alas --- 
>>> mortal, and I am one of those writers who will never be "done"), but 
>>> the end will be reached,
>>> Tim Zahn, Tom Pope, and I will be wrapping the MANTICORE ASCENDANT 
>>> series in the next couple of books, at which point we will tie it off 
>>> with a bow. Jacob Holo and I will be writing the story of Edward 
>>> Saganami shortly. Joelle and I are working on the next MULTIVERSE/ 
>>> HELL'S GATE book, and we know precisely where that series will 
>>> ultimately end up. I don't know that I'll be here to see the final 
>>> book, but I know what will be in it and I totally trust Joelle, 
>>> Sharon, and Toni Weisskopf to get the series there with quality 
>>> writing. Richard Fox and I have about 3 more books to bring Terrence 
>>> Murphy's immediate story to a close, though we may go a tiny bit 
>>> farther than that. We are looking at doing the second book in the 
>>> Murphyverse later this fall/winter. It's already plotted and ready to 
>>> go. Chris Kennedy and I just handed in the sequel to INTO THE LIGHT, 
>>> and I think it's solid. I'm not sure how far we're going to get into 
>>> that one, but I think we can keep our readers satisfied. And the only 
>>> reason I'm not sure how far we'll get is that I set up a heck of a 
>>> big enemy when I created the Hegemony, and it's likely to "end up" 
>>> with a case of Mutually Assured Destruction rather than a clear cut 
>>> military victory. Can't say that for sure; we got farther in the 
>>> current book than we'd really expected. I need to sit down with Jane 
>>> Lindskold some time in the next couple of months and lay out the 
>>> writing outline for the next STAR KINGDOM novel. We are envisioning 
>>> three more in that series, too. I have at least two more novels in 
>>> SAFEHOLD (might be 3) at which point I will be at a thoroughly 
>>> satisfying stopping point. (Could go farther if I brought in the 
>>> right collaborator, but I don't think it's likely.) 3-4 more books in 
>>> the SWORD OF THE SOUTH series, and then that's done.
>>> So, by my calculations, that's another 22 books I need to get written 
>>> to wrap up my current series plans.
>>> I'm 70 this October. I sold the first novel thirty-three years ago. 
>>> Since then, I have published (or have currently turned in, awaiting 
>>> production) 74 solo and collaborative novels, which works out to 
>>> roughly 2.24 per year. That doesn't count the anthologies, of course.
>>> I lost roughly 2 years to the concussion, and about a year and a half 
>>> to the Covid, so let's call it 30 years, not 33, which brings the 
>>> production up to 2.5 per year. And let's assume that I write for 
>>> another ten years, which (at the moment, and barring any anticipated 
>>> encounters with mortality) seems entirely plausible. By my 
>>> calculations, that comes to another TWENTY-FIVE solo and 
>>> collaborative novels, in the process of which I will be working with 
>>> some of my collaborators to establish them firmly in the existing 
>>> universes going forward.
>>> People, like the characters in Richard Adams' PLAGUE DOGS, I'll 
>>> probably still be writing "when the dark comes down." That means, 
>>> obviously, that I won't be "finished" when I leave, but don't go 
>>> around thinking that you're getting rid of me next week!
>>> Just saying."
>>>
>>> Amazing plans.
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> Yup, I see 2 or 3 more SAFEHOLD books in those massive plans and 3 or 
>> 4 more SWORD OF THE SOUTH books.
>>
>> Should be enough to make everyone happy if Weber survives.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
> 
>      Well Safehold was an interesting series but with so many other 
> series to
> pursue I will not likely be around when the next novels come around.  On 
> the
> outside chance that sooner or later we will all end up in some state of 
> being
> be sure to read them closely so that you can tell me all about if we end up
> in the same place.
> 
>      bliss - 88 by this time next week

Happy early birthday !

Lynn