The Crown Duel Books

Some readers have asked me questions about characters' earlier lives in Crown Duel. For them, I wrote A Stranger to Command, about Vidanric as a teenager. There are two published stories about Vidanric's and Mel's kids, "Beauty", about Elestra, and "Court Ship,". There will be more about them as a family in Ship Without Sails, which will come out in a couple of years.

CJ's First Notebook: Over the Sea. At age eight I began writing down the adventures of a gang of girl adventurers. They had an underground hideout! They weren't rescued by boys! They didn't have to grow up! These are the early stories, introducing the gang of Mearsiean girls and their adventures.

CJ's Second Notebook: Mearsies Heili Bounces Back! "I am Princess Cherene Jennet Sherwood of Mearsies Heili, hater of evil, foe to all villains, and wielder of the prune pie of justice!" That's how CJ Sherwood introduces herself when she lands in another set of adventures. In this, the second volume of CJ's records, she and her gang of friends gathered around the thirteen year old queen, Clair Sherwood, find themselves beset by magical spells and various villains. They still manage to have fun in the underground hideout in the middle of Mearsies Heili's woodland.

Senrid. The kids on the good side are united in one thing: regarding Senrid as a villain. So what do you do when you're fifteen, supposedly king of one of the most powerful kingdoms in the world, but all you have on your side are wit, will, and maybe a few skills? And what if the people you like best are your enemies, and your relatives want to see you dead?

The Crown Duel from Vidanric's point of view have been collected and published with the newly edited edition of Crown Duel, available as an e-book here. As soon as I get the rights reassigned to me, I will issue a print edition.

Some have asked me about fan language.

Links to Fan Sites

A lovely site, and newly removated (July 2005) with lots of information garnered from questions posed on the Yahoo discussion group of Crown Duel, Colorwoods.

Another lovely site, Mistical Skies, with a message board.

This nifty site, Remalna-City, is back, and links all the other sites.