Writing Update - Mar 28th, 2025
- Chance Dillon
- Mar 28
- 2 min read
Updated: May 16
Wasabi Gangsters!
As always, expect them every Friday morning 930ET along with a video talking about my reading and some other writing updates if that suits you better.
I like to be as transparent as possible in these. I’m excited for you all to be engaged with the world of Mercy—so here. we. go.
Primary Novel Update:
Book Two — Mercy: (Title to be announced) — is on the CHOPPING BLOCK.
More like a revising block… but you get it.
Current Word Count: 181,410
Chapter 27/44 Revised
Not too much to update here. The chapter I’m working on now was stripped from the first book, slotted into the second as an interlude…. And boy oh boy do I have mixed feelings about it. This is one for alpha readers for sure. I need to see where it lands among them—there’s a good chance it becomes a short story for a collection after book two’s release.
That said—the writing itself of this chapter is particularly outdated—which is really fun to see considering how much I’ve grown as a writer. It feels tangible. Progress isn’t ALWAYS good, but this is certainly an instance where it feels like where I’m at now is better than where I was. It sounds a bit obvious to say, but it still has me a bit excited.
Mercy: Tears of the Fallen
Post Copy-Edit, Pre first proofread word count -
170,065
~600 pages pre-format
Book one’s first third was sent off to my second proofreader, which means I’m going to be preparing the official sample for the world to get there hands on in the free tier (Vileborn). Very excited to share it. I may record a narration of it, done by me, in order to expand out a bit and test myself while being able to share it with even more people.
Once my website is done, the sample will be going out with my initial newsletter as long as the Blood Rebellion short story. Which has me honestly very excited.
If you missed it last week, I discussed a hardcover print run come winter—which I’m looking forward to putting together. First things first though. ARC paperback giveaways will be conducted in the next month and I’ll attach a google form here for those of you interested in signing up for one. People in my Runeborn tier are automatically qualified, as well as will get an additional ‘name in the hat’ so to say, in the giveaway for physical ARCs. On that form, I also have a question for those interested in Alpha Reading which could lead to some more correspondence between us—of course book one will have to have been read by June. So if you’re at least curious, I suggest checking that box.
Again, very excited to share what I have with everyone.
Let me know what you guys want to see from future Patreon Tiers. I have some ideas for post book release Tiers and rolling them out over time as demand increases to get people more ingratiated into the universe of Mercy.
Anyways—thanks so much for taking the time to read this. Grateful for everyone who takes the time.
Stay dangerous,
Chance
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