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Ken will jump in and post if he has time.

Meanwhile, I’m going to briefly address Morgan’s post in which he suggests Ken and I toss out any comments we might have about my recent and Ken’s forthcoming novels, respectively Traitors’ Gate and Canticle.

I find describing what I write rather difficult.  One reason I write novels is that I think of story in a long and sometimes digressive form, so when I to try to compress one of my stories into a brief clever description, when I think my strengths lie in character interaction and landscape (setting), I usually end up with:  “Um, uh, well, there’s this . . . well, wait, I should first mention . . . uh, okay, there are these giant eagles, see, and people like police officers called reeves who patrol on them, and then there is a theme about corruption, and also this girl and some cool soldier dudes . . .”  You see my problem.

So here’s an important thing to know about Traitors’ Gate:  it completes a trilogy.  The whole story, done.  (My Crown of Stars series, while rather longer at seven books, is also complete, finished, done, the whole story so therefore no waiting if you start it now.)  So if you’re one of those readers who likes to know the entire multi-volume tale is available and published before starting, now would be the time to start with Spirit Gate and Shadow Gate and, if you’ve enjoyed those, to know you are able to complete the tale with Traitors’ Gate.  I hit the ending I was aiming for.

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