{"id":1596,"date":"2026-05-03T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:56:55","slug":"my-next-novel-benediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/my-next-novel-benediction\/","title":{"rendered":"My Next Novel: Benediction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have completed plotting out a 4-book mini-series to continue the Predestination series after <em>Insurrection<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first book of the mini-series will be called <em>Benediction<\/em> (ie. it is book 4 of the Predestination series &#8211; Star Wars episode numbering springs to mind, I know &#8211; my apologies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book opens with Rook in the Temple Church in London&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow me in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/stores\/Julian-A-Downes\/author\/B09MT7QH8V\/allbooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jadownesauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiktok<\/a>, or here on my <a href=\"https:\/\/jadownes.com\">website<\/a>, to get early book cover reveals, character notes, scene images, and for pre-release special offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have completed plotting out a 4-book mini-series to continue the Predestination series after Insurrection. The first book of the mini-series will be called Benediction (ie. it is book 4 of the Predestination series &#8211; Star Wars episode numbering springs to mind, I know &#8211; my apologies). The book opens with Rook in the Temple &#8230; <a title=\"My Next Novel: Benediction\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/my-next-novel-benediction\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about My Next Novel: Benediction\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}