Discussion on NewEarth

Sometime in the course of Acceptance, NewEarth6, readers are going to meet a blind dragon. By human standards we would call her poorly sighted, but vision problems among dragons are rare and often fatal. I won’t tell you what happens, but she adds to the reader’s understanding of dragons in some unexpected ways. Another thing…

As I am putting together the story in book 14, Grabon’s Territory has expanded in many amazing ways and is now called the Combined Territories. I leave readers to figure out how that happened, but descriptions of the other continents, different cultures, and other off-world visitors are included.

That bond they share, have you noticed that neither one of them understand how the bond works? Is it going to lengthen Heron’s life span? Is it going to shorten Grabon’s. How will it affect their mates? How does it work among dragons? Maybe one of the visitors will know something about Psychic Bonds, maybe…

Being the youngest child in a large family can be difficult, especially if your father has always wanted a boy and had been stuck with girls every single time. For that youngest daughter, acceptance is often earned by being the son, or as close to, as the daughter can manage. Among Woodsmen who have traditional…

While Heron may have initially felt like he had dodged a blast by courting Trissy in dreams, he certainly did not feel that way when he realized he lacked the knowledge to repair their relationship after a mistake. Courting in dreams, making painful revelations without full consciousness may sound nice on the surface, but imagine…

To create a world with no illness might be fun, but it would seriously hamper creating drama. Think about how often a stomach ache or a headache creates situations and drama, not to mention vomit erupting unexpectedly. Whether you are ancient or a baby in arms, illness is a part of human existence and it…

Trissy struggled not to let Heron see what his descriptions of his past meant to her or how she felt like she could not compare to his first love. It is terrible to have a ghost rival, a memory to compete with that is enshrouded in perfection. Trissy was not so secure in her own…

Baby dragons are born with small wings that grow as they do. In early adolescence the wings grow to full size and the muscles need to be exercised and strengthened before they can learn to fly. By fifteen cycles most dragons can fly, feed themselves and generally live independent of their parents. But they are…

Heron had eighteen cycles living with his family before the fires. Then he met Grabon. Do you think Heron would have been willing to form a friendship with Grabon if his family had been alive? When they died in the fire, he was still trying to earn their approval despite his strong connection to the…