Great, thanks for asking! I have one last part of the book left to write before sending it off to MTJ to begin the next step of the process. I can even tell you the scene without spoiling anything, because it's mentioned in the title!
This next book is proving a real challenge because there's a lot of interconnected character stories going on, so even pushing the ones that aren't needed off to later books is leaving it pretty full, I've had to work this over more than all the rest of the books, including the original trilogy, put together! There's an expression of "killing your darlings," meaning to remove anything that makes the story better, no matter how much you want it in there or how hard you worked on it. Suffice to say, I have killed A LOT of darlings over the past couple of months! There's a lot that needs to happen from the start to the end, and sometimes it means whole scenes have to be boiled down to a couple of sentences. There was one that was five pages, I think, involving Eva and Diane. I really liked it, it showed their relationship, had some great jokes, and featured a small tickle fight, but the story didn't NEED it, so it had to go. (Don't worry, I'm hoping to put it in a future publication!) The plotline involving Hooper, Candace, and Roxi had to be pushed back. A bunch of BTS tickling scenes from Hell Week had to be pushed back. Aiko's entire storyline is now only one scene, the rest pushed back. Even a tickle scene couldn't make the cut, one of Roxi's last videos for Hooper called Nurse Ashley's Training Day, Donnie's favorite video, can only be mentioned, but there was no room to actually include it.
But of course, all this is only because the story has a lot to it! There are major events for Diane, Roxi, Barton, Donnie, Megan, and Eva! And you'll get to see a lot of the other Sigmas in the secondary plot of the story that will run throughout the book. I won't give away much to avoid spoilers, but you might recall Eva was spending Saturday evening working on Thanksgiving Game Night? Well, that's our secondary plot, Eva and 15 Sigmas in nothing but nylons and a smile doing the ultimate Game Night with her brand new game for them! Everyone from our favorite freshmen pledges from the trilogy, to girls you haven't seen in a while like Carla from the original Game Night, Steph from the second part of the trilogy, and even Crystal who was mentioned in passing by Diane back in the first book but never appeared! And a whole bunch more! And I'm really, really hoping we have the room to include the small but major storyline involving the White-Suited Man! It'd be a logical thing to try to cut, but it's one darling I can't bring myself to kill yet.
So, we are getting close! It's down to how much space the title scene of the book takes up, then I might have to go back and cut or condense something to make room. We'll have to see. But whatever the case, the book is nearly done!