I heard somewhere authors should throw out their first million words. Quite a punch to the gut. But as I near that number or perhaps even surpass it (I think I have, if I also count the screenplays and short films I wrote and all those freewrites since I was a teenager), I get it.
There are two series (the other I’ll get to later this year) I couldn’t resist improving, even though I published it before, and had audiobooks produced. My worldbuilding on it has established permanent residence in my consciousness. It was the foundation of my first novel.
The idea grew from going to the movies back in the 90s, and before one of those movies began, an animation for the theater. There were pillars, and tones of fantasy, and I thought it would be a great place for a swordfight. My fantasy series had a few titles over the years, like Deemuth, Vor War, and the Far End, but I finally discovered the ideal title for the series: Scattered Tribes.
I’ve been revising the books, for myself, and for anyone interested, and they’re finally to the point where I feel satisfied, that they are what they should have been all along.
It is my final go of it. I’ve republished with a new series title, improved writing, a few different names for the characters, and deeper worldbuilding, for it has been impossible to keep the world of Vraniga only in my mind. It is time to push every book in the series out of the nest and off my to-do list and into the minds of interested readers.