Julia's Blog

Being granted custody of their youngsters was a dream. When Grabon made that happen, Brom and Griss were faced with certain decisions about how to raise their youngsters and you see evidence of those shifting decisions all the time. At first, they were going to be traditional dragons in Grabon’s territory, but of course that…

NewEarth has very little technology as we think of it but there are a number of tools, some familiar to humans others more familiar to dragons. The key differences between their two tool types have more to do with culture and the shape of their hands. Dragons have two thumbs on each hand. That makes…

Why would dragons kick their new youths out of the nest to find out for themselves how big the world is? What is the importance of that journey to adulthood? Why is self reliance so important and self discovery essential to a dragon’s development? Among humans, do our youth need to establish independence? They do…

  During Healing book 4, a young man is discovered throwing rocks with power backing his muscle, he hit a sheep, one of the Taylor’s sheep, narrowly missing Kimmi. That young man, Zack, becomes a very important character for the rest of the series. Now I don’t want to give too much away, but as…

I don’t know how familiar you are with barns of different sizes and shapes here on OldEarth, but while they are solid in structure, they lack for a certain type of closure, especially after a few decades of use. In fact on a bright day if you go inside and close the doors, lots of…

Cooperation is a huge concept. It means more than compliance, more than agreemement, it means to actively help further a cause, to help a group push something forward with a single goal or agenda. Humans are not by nature cooperative, it is learned and some never learn the skill. Grabon’s clan are cooperative. Those around…