Hi all,

March is now over, so it's time to wrap-up the first draft of Original Elementals #9: Arcturus. It is now complete at 84,039 words!

At first this was a tough one to write as I was worried that I wouldn't reach the end. This book is about 10K longer than the others at the moment, but I suppose it is fitting as its the last one in the series.

This book follows Stella, the first person to have all eight elements. Her companion is Arcturus, a demi-god who will never get the chance to meet Aosmhor to achieve some form of immortality. In this book, Aosmhor is still going to be asleep, even the events of Elemental Dragons occur while he's in the same slumber.

Stella decides to turn her back on Zmei right away following the events of the previous books. She works with the Fairy Dragons and bonds with one, Embae. She also meets Vivid in this book, a dragon goddess who was imprisoned decades ago for a crime she didn't commit. She offers to help Stella with Zmei, but does she also have secret intentions?

I loved going back to the Fairy Dragons and getting to explore them a bit more. They were cute in the Elemental Dragons series and I'm glad I got to revisit them. This time, you can learn a lot more about where they came from and some of their powers. This is before hives were hunted down by scientists, so there are many Fairy Dragons in this book.

Stella grows a lot throughout the story and becomes stronger in her own right. I've wanted to write her going from a meek, shy girl to a confident one and I'm so glad that I finally got to do it!

But that is unfortunately, the end of the Original Elementals series...

Or is it?

I know throughout the years I've teased you a lot about a secret tenth book in the series. I can confirm that this will be true! But you'll have to wait for another blog post to find out more!

That's it for this week, I hope you enjoyed reading! See you next week.