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Inda's Story

Inda's story is a roman fleuve cut into four books, Inda, The Fox, King's Shield (out in July 2008), and the fourth is being written.

15 June 2008, here I am updating in preparation for King's Shield coming out in two weeks. Character List is below, and I might also put up an errata list, as the rewrite went right up to the last possible day, and as usual Ms Dyslexia overlooked some howlers. Now, back to book four, which I am calling Traitor's Honor (or possibly Honor's Concord, which is at least better than Snacklefrackin Long Story. Thinking up titles gives me the grippin' grues).


interview the wonderful writer Kate Elliott did with me, posted in her blog.

Inda, The Fox, and King's Shield are not Young Adult novels.

The Young Adult portion of my story universe is here--which includes Crown Duel, the first in print, and its prequel, A Stranger to Command, out in August.

Background Stuff


Here is more detail about the world, its history, its paradigm.

Here is some stuff about the ships at this time in the southern hemisphere of Inda's world.

Here is a list of the main characters for Inda.

Here is a list of the main characters for The Fox.

Here is a list of the main characters for King's Shield.

Here is how I 'hear' the names pronounced.

Here is a very general timeline up to the beginning of Inda’s story--this will only mean something if you've read the book!

Here is a wiki some fans are making. Like any labor of love it will take a while before it gets more data, as everyone, including me, has constant time demands. Also, I'm trying to figure out how to get layers of time put in without spoilers, and as for the atlas, what about all the many border changes over the years? Ah well, one step at a time.

Here is an I usually duck and hide from reviews as I am not the least tough and professional about these things but this one was pointed out (midway down the post) from no less a luminary than Orson Scott Card, which made me so very happy.

Summer Thunder--published in Coyote Wild's first issue, January 2007--is a short outtake from a novel taking place a few hundred years after Inda's story. That novel will be called Banner of the Damned.