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The Excitement of One Book Series Ending + Another Nearly Ending
This is exciting because reaching the ending of a series is new for me.
Back in 1997 or so, I was sitting at my desk at my job with nothing to do.
What work I had was done, and I had created as much other work as I could come up with. (At the time, I was the sales manager for an itty-bitty audiophile record label).
A vision of a sorcerer hit my brain. He stood atop a rise in a large flat field, facing down a hundred soldiers intent on taking him out.
Summoning all his power, he rolls the earth — and tosses each of them away. But this is too much for the sorcerer, and he collapses — only to awake with his sorcerous abilities untouchable.
I wrote that scene — and from it sparked what would become my Source Chronicles fantasy series. Granted, it went through multiple permutations, my first professional edit, and the above-mentioned scene was removed from the introduction and only partially shown in a flashback. But this began my love of writing series.
In 2011, I was presented with an opportunity to get a short story published. I set down the Source Chronicles and wrote A Treacherous Stone for the Rum and Runestones anthology of pirates and magic. Then, 6 months…
