I’m work­ing on Ele­men­tal Assas­sin 5 right now, and I real­ized some­thing kind of cool about it the other day.

When I get done with this book, I will have writ­ten more than 500,000 words about Gin Blanco. Yep, that’s right — half a mil­lion words about one char­ac­ter. That’s a whole lot of words, not to men­tion all the typ­ing!

Of course, I’d love to write more books about Gin beyond these five, but that’s going to be up to the sales gods and read­ers. Still, I think half a mil­lion words is a pretty cool accom­plish­ment. I’m totally pat­ting myself on the back right now — and keep­ing my fin­gers crossed that the words and Gin’s sto­ries will keep on coming!