A question that I get a lot (and it makes me very happy to be asked it, too!) is this: “Will there be a fourth Magic Thief book?”
Here’s the answer. At first it was only supposed to be a trilogy, but when I finished writing book three, The Magic Thief: Found, I realized that I wasn’t ready to stop writing about Conn and Nevery and Benet and Rowan and Embre and Captain Kerrn. And that bad baby dragon, Pip.
Yes, I had a lot more to say about Pip.
So the answer is YES, I have written a fourth Magic Thief book! It is done.
The problem is, publishing is s-l-o-w. I have two other books coming out–Winterling in 2012 and its sequel, The Summerkin, in 2013–and only after that will my publisher decide if the fourth Magic Thief book is coming out. If you add that up, it means no fourth Magic Thief book until 2014.
I know, that’s a long time to wait.