AQATSA

:This article will be kept to track the progress of the book as it was being written and published
AQATSA was the teaser-title for the fourth volume of the Alexandra Quick series, announced 9 May 2010 (1). The title was suspected to follow the pattern of the first three novels, reading Alexandra Quick and the [S. A.], and indeed the official title was announced in an addendum to the final chapter of Alexandra Quick and the Deathly Regiment on 14 June 2010: Alexandra Quick and the Stars Above (2).
AQATSA will be a sequel to Deathly Regiment, and will take place between the Summer of 2010 and the Summer of 2011, during Alex's ninth-grade year. According to the author, there were be "a somewhat longer wait for [Stars Above] than there was for book three" due to his work on "some other projects" as well as "certain Real Life impositions [expected] to intrude in the coming year." The first draft was completed on 7 August `2011, at a length of 276,000 words.
==Progress==
Date 	Words 	Source
08/15/10	24,000 	4
09/23/10	37,000 	5
11/07/10	55,000 	6
11/23/10	67,538 	7
12/13/10	84,000 	8
01/05/11	101,000 	9
02/04/11	124,634 	10
02/19/11	148,000 	11
03/09/11	166,551 	12
03/11/11	170,700 	13
03/12/11	172,000 	14
03/27/11	182,800 	15
03/31/11	186,392 	16
04/04/11	192,000 	17
04/10/11	204,000 	18
04/21/11	205,000 	19
05/08/11	210,000 	20
05/16/11	216,000 	21
05/26/11	221,900 	22
06/02/11	226,700 	23
06/14/11	240,000 	24
06/20/11	243,000 	25
06/30/11	256,000 	26
07/14/11	264,000 	27
07/30/11	266,000 	28
08/07/11	276,0001st draftcomplete	29
08/22/11	272,999 	fb
09/02/11	269,000 	30
09/05/11	265,999 	31
09/16/11	264,445 	32
09/25/11	263,999 	33
10/07/11	262,100 	34
10/20/11	258,100 	35
11/01/11	257,697 	36
11/10/11	251,999 	37
11/24/11	251,802semifinalcomplete	38
==Speculation==
Hypothetical and humorous titles, none of which were correct, have included:
* Alexandra Quick and the Secret Alliance
* Alexandra Quick and the Secret Association
* Alexandra Quick and the Sacred Angels
* Alexandra Quick and the Sacred Association
* Alexandra Quick and the Second Amendment
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Category:Fan theories