One of the most common questions questions I get is this: what’s ASHFALL #4 about? Instead of typing a separate answer yet again, I’m going to share everything I’m currently willing to discuss here.
First, yes, there will be a fourth full-length ASHFALL book. So it will no longer be a trilogy. Or a three-and-a-half-ology. Now I think it will be a tetra-logy? Or a four-and-a-half-ology? Anyway, the series order will be: ASHFALL, (DARLA’S STORY is a novelette that can be read before or after ASHFALL), ASHEN WINTER, SUNRISE, and ASHFALL #4. No, I don’t have a title for the fourth book yet. If you’ve got a great idea and don’t care if I use it (you won’t get paid anything), then email me!
I have until December 31st, 2017 to deliver the manuscript for ASHFALL #4. I hope to get it done a lot sooner. But I’ll take as long as I need to to write a great book. I know it’s hard to be patient, so thank you.
I outline my books before I write them, but while I’m writing I often change the outline. Or scrap chunks of it completely. So the information I’m about to share may change. With that said, here’s what ASHFALL #4 is about: It starts two years after SUNRISE ends. Alex and Darla are the proud parents of an 8-month-old girl named Gloria, after Darla’s mother. Speranta is incredibly prosperous. In terms of technology, standard of living, and food storage, they’re years ahead of all their much larger neighbors. One of those neighbors wants Speranta’s riches for itself. And they’ll stop at nothing to get them.
Thanks for your continued support and all the questions you’ve emailed me. I love my fans! –Mike
Hi this I Sam again and you print don’t like hearing from fans this much but I think k that then new book should be called”the after story”
Thanks again for reading my emails and can’t wait for this book if you care I have read all the your books but surface tension.
Great Idea! Thanks Sam!
Will we find out what happened to Emily, Zik’s daughter?
When will Ashfall #4 be released?
Hey Mike!! Is there an expected release date for Ashfall #4? I loved the first 3! My former English teacher recommended them to me about a year and a half ago and I can’t wait to see what happens next!! Thank you!!
I put an update here: http://mikemullinauthor.com/whats-up-with-ashfall-4/
I put an update here: http://mikemullinauthor.com/whats-up-with-ashfall-4/
Probably not. One of the things that happens with a disaster this scale is that some people are never found. I intentionally don’t close every open question in the books, and I will continue that philosophy in book 4.
Will you have any signings for the new Ashfall book in Oklahoma? Me and my friend became hooked on the series our freshman year in high school, we are going to be seniors next year, and were excited About book 4!
There’s nothing planned in OK right now, but I’d love to come back! Perhaps your school or public library would sponsor a visit.
I saw in your blades of spring update thing that you plan to take the characters to Louisiana… Jesus that over 1000 kilometers!.
Since your going so far, could you put a government led town, like ex Military or something along the way, and show the diminishing effects that the Ashfall would have the further from Yellowstone you got? I’d like to see these details explored a little, and to give me some hope that maybe a working society might still exist somewhere in America.
No doubt there’s working pockets of people in Europe and Asia, but for America and Canada (where I’m from) it must be rough for the northern most towns.