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 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 …..
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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

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David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ... Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-08-29 16:39 -0500
  Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ... djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2022-08-30 04:34 +0000
    Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ... Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-08-29 23:57 -0500
      Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ... scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-08-30 13:14 +0000
        Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ... Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-08-30 12:07 -0500
  Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ... Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2022-08-30 07:29 -0700
    Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ... Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-08-30 12:12 -0500
      Re: David Weber's plans for the next 22 books ... Tony Nance <tonynance17@gmail.com> - 2022-08-30 12:40 -0700

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