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...He hadn't had so much fun in years--not since they were kids on the run, with no regrets behind them, no responsibilities before them, and nothing but the open sky overhead.
Living the Parallel Life; Beginning at age eight, I became the "Watcher at the window" for this world. By age thirteen I began the maps, and at nineteen I made the globe. As the characters' lives changed and the stakes in their adventures changed, I dealt with my mundane life. But even when I was an adult, and standing at a cash register, or working the restaurant floor, or at dull faculty meetings, my mind would flit through the window into their world. Their lives and adventures have run parallel to my own; my avocation is to write their stories down as best I can. So
what's new? Some readers have asked me questions about characters' earlier lives in Crown Duel. For them, I wrote A Stranger to Command, which is Vidanric's story. A shorter story about Vidanric's and Mel's son is in Firebirds Soaring. 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.
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general background of the world--leading to the background of the three storylines that introduce the main characters of the world, whose stories begin as kids.
First published is Senrid's.
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