At Home in Percival (henceforth, AHIP): 23 ratings on Amazon so far! I don’t know why, but somehow 20 felt like a threshold. I don’t know if there’s a tipping point where Amazon starts to recommend your book to readers of similar ones.
Book 2 (currently working title is George II, because the working title of AHiP was George is My Friend): About 25k words so far. I have not yet had any 2000-word days yet; it feels like I was mostly able to make that goal I the first book, but I ran some quick statistics. There were 48 days when I was seriously working on the first draft of AHiP; of those, I had 7 days under 100 words, 16 days over 2000 words, and the rest between 1k-2k. So if I’m only writing 1000-1500 most days on this one, I guess it’s OK. Hopefully I will speed up as I get farther along. One problem is that it feels like I’m halfway through the story when I should be only about a third done, but I think that happened last time too. Stories unpack themselves in a semi fractal way; “semi” because sometimes they’re linear, and then you realize you’ve got to go back and unpack a lot of missed detail. It’s a much more magical process than I had expected it to be.