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  • 15 September 2023

    Annotations: Petition (Chapter 17)

    Chapter 17 is the shortest chapter in Petition. (Technically, the prologue, interlude, and epilogue are significantly shorter but they don’t really count.) The basic plot trope/beat—a makeover sequence—is pretty straightforward. And, as with most things that ended up in Petition, I didn’t set out to write it consciously. I kind of hate the makeover trope…

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  • 15 August 2023

    Annotations: Petition (Chapter 16)

    Epic fantasy has been my genre of choice ever since I stumbled across it at my local library. I can’t even remember which book or series it was exactly—perhaps The Belgariad by Eddings or Magician by Raymond E. Feist or it could’ve been Dragonlance by Weis and Hickman or maybe Pern by Anne McCaffrey. (Really,…

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  • 10 July 2023

    Annotations: Petition (Chapter 15)

    I ought to have said back in the annotations for Chapter 13 that everything from Chapters 14 through to the end of Chapter 25 did not exist in the original outline, which called for the following: Act I: Rahelu Petitions the Houses; becomes a Supplicant; is sent on assignment. Act II: Rahelu completes the assignment.…

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  • 9 June 2023

    Annotations: Petition (Interlude)

    When I wrote the published prologue, I did so very intentionally, knowing that I wanted it to form a little independent arc with the interlude and the epilogue. Yet I wanted to keep them as short as possible, so they wouldn’t “overstay their welcome” (as one of my beta readers put it) or steal focus…

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  • 20 May 2023

    Annotations: Petition (Chapter 14)

    I feel like a broken record saying this, over and over again, but in writing these annotations, it becomes really apparent just how mysterious my writing process is to myself: when I got to this point in the story, I had no idea how I was going to get Rahelu back into Petitioning after I’d…

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Supplicant (Resonance Crystal Legacy, #2)

Part I:
The Winged Arrow

Beta read: 100%

Part II:
The Sooty Gull

Beta read: 85%

Part III:
The Endless Gate

Beta read: 1%

Estimated publication date: Q4 2023

Last words written

This time, she shushed him and said, “Later.”

House politics, Guild ethics, quandaries both moralistic and philosophic—they could deal with all those ‘–ics’ later.

Much later.

Beta read draft v2023.09.27
Part III of Supplicant (Resonance Crystal Legacy, Book 2)