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Love and Life
The notion of romantic love is not dead in the NewEarth Series, it is just transformed by conditions. Among the settlers, being left without a helpmate is a death sentence not only for the partner left behind, but often for children. Among the dragons who link their lives and power, if one partner dies, they…
Tough
How tough is Grabon? Compared to other dragons he is obviously not a puff ball or wimp, but how tough is he? You should have gotten the sense from Rok and Thane that they are pretty rough and Grabon and Heron used to fight for coins as well as pleasure, using their fighting ability as…
Audience
Writing, like any other business or craft is done in stages. The same is true for bringing the book out for public view. I am very much in the stage of expanding my audience, as well as bringing out NewEarth5 Grabon’s Nest. One of the ways I use to do this is getting people who…
Tall Grass Path
On the market grounds as described in Healing, NewEarth4, there is a tall grass path that leads to the storytellers cove. In the picture that Athena drew, you can see the path, as well as the tea stand where everyone pics up a cup of tea on their way into the cove to listen to…
Outdoor Shower
The medicated bath and bleach rinse was a complete success. We managed to keep poor Jethro relatively calm, considering he hates the very idea of a bath in any shape or form. The hard part was keeping him outside until the bleach dried so it didn’t get on carpets, bedding or anything else. I wonder…
Snake in the Grass
I was getting things ready to give poor Jethro an outdoor shower with a bleach and water after rinse, recommended by the vet to help him fight this skin infection that has been bothering him, when I skipped to the back of the house to get my fancy spray nozzle with 14 settings on a…
Tria
In book 4 Healing, Tria is introduced, first as a visitor and then sort of invited into Grabon’s nest. She is a youth, a young dragon, between being a youngster and not yet sexually mature. She has little experience, is still figuring things out and she wanders into Grabon’s territory drawn in by the excitement…
Finding a Mate
Since dragons go awandering at fifteen cycles, educate themselves and become fully mature around fifty cycles, when do they start searching for a mate? That is an interesting thought. Dragons sexually mature at twenty-two to twenty-six cycles, so probably sometime after that, but they start dreaming and fantasizing about their potential mate as youngsters. The…
New Pics
Athena my incredible artist has been hard at work creating visual scenes to go with various parts of book 5. The cover for Grabon’s Nest is very interesting and somewhat revealing, but I am trying not to give too much away. One of the new scenes is in the market, another in the nest at…
Busy Days
No matter the season, some days we manage to cram in 35 things while on others we accomplish 4. Of course that says nothing of the complexity or difficulty of the task, but a 35 day list somehow is more tiring. Yesterday was a 35 day and a travel day to boot. Aside from a…
Grabon as King
Obviously the government structure of NewEarth based on the dragon’s system is different from what we have seen on oldearth but historically it resembles the fiefdom or feudal systems of old. That being said, Grabon is a king, answerable to a council of older more experienced kings that are guided by the planet. More on…
Game and Grains
Since NewEarth is a different planet and growing food from OldEarth doesn’t always work as expected, there are a number of indigenous species that the humans have cultivated and even more that the dragons have used. That being said, combining the two cultures gives them an even broader selection of foods to work with. The…
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