Writing Update - May 8th, 2025

Wasabi Gangsters!

Welcome to the official writing update.

PHYSICAL ARC GIVEAWAYS ARE LIVE FOR THE NEXT 10 WEEKS! Check out my YouTube channel for more info!!!

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. These also will be going at as my weekly newsletter if you sign up for it over in my website—chancedillonauthor.com

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)

Current Word Count: 185,583

Chapter 44/44 Revised plus the AFTER

Book two is officially in the hands of my first round Alpha Readers. And I CANNOT wait to see what they think.

With that happening—things are pretty low key, so nothing much to report here.

I’ll likely be putting book two (without title) up for digital “sale” on Amazon in June. So look out for that cool stinking logo saying the title and cover shall be released… because I’m sending my brief over to Stuart in June too…. So that cover is on its way.

Mercy: Tears of the Fallen

Post Copy-Edit, Post proofread word count -

171,011

Started reading through the FINAL draft….. which is wild to say…. Of book one. Crazy how many times I’ve gone through it—and honestly there may still be one or two commas missing—but I’m still so excited for this book to be in everyone’s hands come July. The physical copy stuff, I actually am working through. I’m going to reach out to J. L Odom (winner of SPFBOX I might add) sometime in the coming weeks to see how she opted to do her distribution and so on—so I can get a better idea myself. Ideally I’d love to have a hardcover with a dust jacket available upon release. So we shall see!

Mercy: Volume Three (Title to be announced)

…tricked ya. No update here just yet. I intend on starting to work on the first draft once I’m finished with this final proofread. That said.. I already know what my opening scene is looking like. And holy hannah—I just can’t say too much…. I want to give you one word—but I can’t even do that.

It’d be a bit of a spoiler if I did. Or would it? Minor spoiler I guess—but spoiler enough. Okay…. I’ll type out the number of letters.

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That’s all you get. 7 letters.

I love talking about the story—so if you desire to speak spoilers, please reach out privately. I’m nervous but I cannot wait to hear your thoughts.

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