I'm still wondering what exactly is taking Jim this long to finish Peace Talks. On Reddit Serack mentioned that he told his beta readers about some problem. But Serack didn't say what it was. I opined that it might be some mental health issue like maybe depression or something, just something that in some way affects his brain/mind. Serack shot it down in saying it "wasn't his head". I'd say though it seems whatever it is, it has affected Jim's ability to crank out books like he use to.
I don't expect Jim to be finished until at least the end of this year and I won't be surprised if it takes a number of months longer than that. In one of the YouTube videos featuring Jim that was put out early this Summer, he told his audience he was only half way done with Peace Talks, but added that in a few weeks his personal situation; his new home and writing set up (and I think his life in general), would finally be in a place where he could concentrate on his writing and hopefully finish PT by the end of September.
On the general theory about the best laid plans of mice and men never quite working out the way they were intended to do so, I guessed Jim getting everything the way he wanted it to be would take longer than he estimated and I always thought his estimate of how little time he needed to finish Peace Talks (half the novel in a little less than four months) to be somewhat over optimistic. So I'm guessing PT will be finished sometime between Jan. 1 and June 30 of next year.
I sure do miss the tweets Jim made when he was writing Ghost Story where would update what where he was by the percentage of his estimated word count. "I fired up my laptop and I'm at 75% of my estimated word count." Of course Jim went over his estimated word count, but those tweets really showed us the progress he was making. It made me feel I was less in the dark about Jim's writing process, and for me, helped build my enthusiasm for the release of that book. (Of course, Jim also tweeted about things that had nothing to do with his writing and occasionally responded to other tweeters, and doing so must have taken time away from his writing, so I understand why he's cut out a lot of the social media stuff, but I wish there was some middle ground where we could be a little more informed.)