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With a longer cycle (year) but only 4 seasons, how long does winter last? Like here it depends on the position on the planet. The area closest to the suns, the equator gets the shortest or no real winter.In Grabon’s territory, well winter can seem very long, but in truth it is about a quarter…

My characters spend a lot of time cooking. There is a reason for that. Food does not magically appear, just as clothes do not wash themselves. Too often we are conditioned to overlook the hard work that goes into running a household and it is devalued as unimportant. Writing about a world where everything is…

Dotty, or Dot as her family calls her, is an interesting character. Without giving too much away I can tell you she has a sister. Her mother is a Farmer, her father is a goldcrafter from a Craftsman family. By the time the story begins, Dotty has lost her mother to a mysterious illness when…

A number of people have now read Gordon’s Pride and Heron’s Bonds and they are anxious for a clue about what will the third book be about. The love story is Tad and Dotty. Tad is Gordon’s cousin of course, and Hess’s brother. He is a Farmer who is also a trader. He and Hess…

How is it that medicine for dragons would also work on humans? Now there is an excellent question. Physiologically they are not the same, but they have many of the same systems, so they share illnesses and also cures. It was a surprise to many humans and dragons that the brews work across species. It…

A territory is as far as a dragon can see in some detail in all directions from the highest perch, or so it is described. Later in the series it is clarified that it is as far as that territory dragons energy expands in the planet, limited to a particular amount. For measurement purposes a…

NewEarth has some interesting features as a planet. It has twin suns and two moons. The days are considerably longer, 36 hours by earth time and each cycle or year is 450-451 days. The sky has a definite greenish cast and it rarely gets completely dark because of the light of the two suns and…

The Heartsinger is Tad and Dotty’s story, so you will get to know Tad and by extension Hess much better. However in book 2 you see their connection with their father, you see their connection with each other, with Gordon and you see how easily they adjust their thinking abut the dragons. They had met…