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Happy belated new year!
Sometime in the frigid early months of 2025, I started writing Primitive War Dispatches Volume III - The Martyrs of New Fàtima. I had just published The Psalms of Xipetotec in December of 2024 and I wanted to take a bit of time off from working on the next PW book, but my creativity is a compulsion that makes me feel ill if I avoid the urge to write for more than a week.
I started writing The Martyrs of New Fàtima as soon as I got back from a road trip to Niagara, some time early enough in 2025 that the Falls were still frozen over. I had come up with the concept for The Martyrs of New Fàtima over 5 years ago, while writing the second Primitive War novel. After publishing Animus Infernal in 2020, I resumed work on The Psalms of Xipetotec, eager to finish it so I could move on to The Martyrs of New Fàtima.
I didn't expect that project to take four years of research, writing, revising, editing, rewriting, ad naseum, or that those would be some of the most turbulent yeaes of my life. Through it all New Fàtima remained in the back of my mind, a Promised Land of a creative sandbox. By the time I published The Psalms of Xipetotec in December of 2024, I had already built the mythos for New Fàtima, the heroes and villains, the drama of nature in a post-apocalyptic paradise. I couldn't keep myself away for more than a few weeks, when I wrote the prologue and just kept going.
2025 was a crazy year for me for a myriad of reasons, but I never stopped working on The Martyrs of New Fàtima. My progress has been much slower than usual as a result, but I'm happy to say I have more than 200 pages written. As of New Year's Day, I've finished the first of the 3 sections in the book. Things are about to drastically change in New Fàtima.