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Returning to Unfinished Works
When returning to unfinished works, recognize there’s been change.
I began writing what would become my fantasy series, The Source Chronicles, in 1998.
A lot of work went into it, and before long I had completed the first three books. That, of course, led to the series becoming 5 books (instead of the original planned 4), but that’s neither here nor there.
I started to work on the 4th book, Guardians, in 2009, eleven years after starting the series.
But then I was offered an opportunity to write and publish a short story about pirates and magic for an anthology called Rum and Runestones.
That was an amazing experience. It led to a second story about pirates and magic in another anthology called Spells and Swashbucklers.
I had now been published twice. But the story I created for Spells and Swashbucklers, The Vapor Rogues, required a tremendous amount of worldbuilding in advance. It was a Steampunk world, and I felt the need to explore it further. Thus began The Vapor Rogues series and book one for it — Clouds of Authority.
As the years have gone by, I have written and published a whole lot of work. I am continuing to do so. However, both my edits for Harbinger — the 3 rdbook in the Source…
