Mark Jeffrey

(Originally posted on http://maxquickseries.com)

Q: What’s going on with Max Quick 3: The Bane of the Bondsman?

A: I get asked this a lot — which is actually pretty great, of course.  It means people out there care about the story. 

Well, here’s the thing: As of right now, I have about half of it written.  But I had a huge amount of rewriting to do on Max Quick 1 once HarperCollins acquired it, and that sucked time away from completing MQ3.  I am now back to working on it as I can, but I will very likely have to next spend a lot of time on MQ2 rewrites in 2011 — and MQ2 is a MUCH larger and more complex book than MQ1.

For those of you who have been patiently waiting: I am SO sorry things went this way.  I know this if very annoying for you — and I did sort of leave you hanging at the end of MQ2. Rest assured, I have the rest of this figured out in my head, I’m not going to pull a LOST on you all :) I very much want to write several more Max Quick books and I aim to have each get better and better.

The book deal is good for me, of course: MQ1 will now be a major hardcover release, and there is already interest in doing Max Quick films, etc. 

But it also means that MQ3 is a ways further off.  Even if I had it finished right now, I could not simply release it or do the podiobook version (and — by the way — HarperCollins graciously allowed me to keep both MQ1 and MQ2 podiobooks available for free).  I would be obligated to hold on to it until HarperCollins decided whether they wanted to publish it or not.  This is part of being a grown-up author now.

There is a mailing list to right you can sign up for and whenever MQ3 news is available, I will be certain to send it to you.

Thanks again for all your support though they years — you all ROCK!!