Edward Saganami Trilogy

A while back I believe I read somewhere that RFC and Jacob Holo were planning a collaborative Honorverse trilogy, this one about Edward Saganami, and I'm curious if anyone has heard anymore about it? Like if they've started working on it, etc.

CaptainPerseus wrote:A while back I believe I read somewhere that RFC and Jacob Holo were planning a collaborative Honorverse trilogy, this one about Edward Saganami, and I'm curious if anyone has heard anymore about it? Like if they've started working on it, etc.

A friend passed me this last week from David's facebook page:

I mentioned elsewhere that Marisa Wolf has fallen into the clutches of the Honorverse. And I’ve also mentioned that Jan Kotouč will be writing the story of Mark Sarnow & Company in Sunny Silesia.
What I cannot for the life of me recall is whether or not I’ve mentioned that Jacob Holo will be doing the life of Edward Saganami. At the moment, it’s a trilogy, but this IS Baen we’re talking about.
Oh, and the other Toni-approved project somewhere down the road will be another Marisa project involving three ladies named Alicia, Tisiphone, and Megaera and the two books I have planned out but have never gotten written.
Yet.

So this is a "current" update... just no detail (or time frame)

Theemile wrote:

CaptainPerseus wrote:A while back I believe I read somewhere that RFC and Jacob Holo were planning a collaborative Honorverse trilogy, this one about Edward Saganami, and I'm curious if anyone has heard anymore about it? Like if they've started working on it, etc.

A friend passed me this last week from David's facebook page:

I mentioned elsewhere that Marisa Wolf has fallen into the clutches of the Honorverse. And I’ve also mentioned that Jan Kotouč will be writing the story of Mark Sarnow & Company in Sunny Silesia.
What I cannot for the life of me recall is whether or not I’ve mentioned that Jacob Holo will be doing the life of Edward Saganami. At the moment, it’s a trilogy, but this IS Baen we’re talking about.
Oh, and the other Toni-approved project somewhere down the road will be another Marisa project involving three ladies named Alicia, Tisiphone, and Megaera and the two books I have planned out but have never gotten written.
Yet.

So this is a "current" update... just no detail (or time frame)

Tom Pope attended MARSCON a couple of weeks ago but I didn’t see him until Sunday nite with Jacob Holo, my assumption is he was holed up w/Jacob working on this.

Tom, David, and I are deep into planning the first Saganami novel, and yes, we’re still looking at three books. There are a lot of technical and political details to sort out, since this era of the Honorverse hasn’t been explored in-depth before, but all that work is proceeding at a comfortable pace (Tom and I have weekly meetings to work on said details). Given the current state of my schedule, I expect to start writing the first draft sometime in late Q3 2024.

I’ve already written a Saganami short story (his first assignment as an ensign, in fact), which we used to fine-tune the character’s portrayal. David was very happy with the result, and that story should appear in the next Honorverse anthology. It’s a rather light, fun escapade that takes place before Saganami gets passed through the Honorverse Main Character Meatgrinder (tm).

Jacob Holo wrote:Tom, David, and I are deep into planning the first Saganami novel

Thank you for the update.
Looking forward to the short story and then the eventual trilogy!