How Things Came To Be As They Are For several years I have been working on a series of fantasy adventures, the
Kingdom of the Sun Stories and
BridgeWorlds Books, about two worlds bound by an ancient struggle between good and evil. As currently envisioned the series will encompass a dozen or so volumes and may take fifteen or twenty years to write, which has at times tempered my enthusiasm for the project. So when (in March of 2003) I had an idea for a short story — something I could hope to finish in a few weeks — I poured myself into the project. The 'short story' kept growing until it became a novel,
Two Pigs and a Chicken, which was published in April of 2004.
Response to
Two Pigs and a Chicken was so enthusiastic that I've spent most of the succeeding years working on plot development for a series of sequels, the
Erindale Tales. The first of these,
The Maiden All Forlorn, was published in 2010. The next volume in the series,
An Unsuitable Suit, was published in 2017, and its sequels,
A Year To Remember and
Just Jamie, were published in 2020.
Poor Emily was published in 2022,
The Colonel and The Lady in 2023, and
Blind Man's Bluff, which will turn the seven sequels and prequels to
Two Pigs and a Chicken into a saga spanning more than three generations, should be in print by the summer of 2024.
The Shape Of Things To Come Despite the interest in my romantic fiction I have not abandoned the fantasy adventure series, and expect to finish writing
Ialia and the Flyer, the first
Kingdom of the Sun Story, very soon. However, following a discussion of priorities with my advisors, it has been decided not to publish the novel until the remaining Erindale Tales are in print; so depending on when they are published, it will probably be late 2024 or 2025 before
Ialia and the Flyer and the Kingdom of the Sun novels that precede and follow it are published.
To Be Published At A Later Date
Poor Emily (Erindale Tale #6, 2022) (novel: historical romance; prequel (Part I) and sequel (Part II) to
Just Jamie)
Blind Man's Bluff (Erindale Tale #7) (novel: historical mystery)
The Colonel and The Lady (Erindale Tale #8) (Regency romance: only loosely tied to the other novels)
Ialia and the Flyer (A Kingdom of the Sun Story) (novel: romantic adventure fantasy)
various additional
Kingdom of the Sun Stories (novels: fantasy adventure)
various
BridgeWorlds Books (novels: fantasy adventure)