I spent a while working on organizing the Jump Space book today, which isn’t writing, exactly, but the organizing part is important, and needed to happen before I could do the last piece of writing revision, because I’m using the Thin Air story to frame the other stories in book 2, which means I need to know what order they come in. Whew. This probably makes no sense to anyone but me and maybe Jed Hartman.
I’m a little worried that book 2 is going to be a downer, which maybe you might expect given that it’s called War Stories. There are bright moments, but there is also a lot that is grim. Will readers mind? I don’t know.
Maybe that doesn’t matter — right now, I’m trying to make it the book I think it should be, and not worry too much about what readers think. That’s hard, though. I want my readers to LOOOVE ME!
Tentative plan below. Jed, if you have time to talk this over with me sometime in the next day or two, that’d be helpful!
a) One question — I have a story that follows on from the “Jump Space” story, and I’m wondering if it makes sense to include that in this book. It’s not really a war story, though, so I worry that it’s tonally so different…?
b) On looking this over, do you think I should write something happier for the War Stories book? 
Something light and silly? Probably not, I think, but I am fretting.
These are questions for editor Jed, but y’all can weigh in if you like. Absurd answers also welcome.
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Prologue: Jump Space
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Book One: The Stars Change
Part I: These Days of Peace
Hammer in the Dark
Interlude
Part II: Be Human
Amidst the Shouting
Interlude
Part III: The City Divided
And Brightly Blaze
Interlude
Part IV: A Single Book
Dragons Fall
Interlude
Part V: After the Clouds
Day Breaks
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Book Two: War Stories
Part I: Sequel and Prequel
Paper Star
Part II: Intensification
Webs
Thin Air 1: The Question
Part III: Conflagration
Skin Deep
Thin Air 2: The Answer
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