Julia's Blog

How did these mammals get to be called dragons? Well if you have looked at the pictures you have a pretty good image of what the dragons move like. The human settlers had been dropped off the night before, early spring, storms raged, rain beat down on their plastic containers and in some cases flipped…

Occasionally I give the uncorrupted view of the child through Jenny or Matti in the stories. In Book 2, Heron’s Bonds, Jenny tells everyone, “Grabon is our people.” And of course from the dragon perspective the ones who are so different are the humans, not the dragons at all.

Someone asked about the ethics of NewEarth, and I chuckled. Not because I was amused by the person, but the question is amusing. There is no single ethical base among a diverse group of people, certainly not between two species. There is the ethics a person claims and that which they practice. Among humans and…

You may have noticed that Grabon knows what he enjoys. He also avoids what he does not like, until there is no choice. He generally enjoys his life and his role as a territory dragon, he enjoys his friends, his clan, and his relationship with Heron. He is genuinely relieved that he does not have…

I am not sure what it says about my life, but when I thought of adding wine (whiskey or bourbon) to NewEarth, the image of drunk psychic dragons did more than make me giggle, it left me rolling on the floor. Then Grabon, who is so intellectual, being inebriated, slightly insecure, and sluring his thoughts…

What exactly is this planet that the dragons and humans all refer to? Most of the humans have a sense that their power comes from the planet, but they are unclear how much sentient credit to give it, or even what exactly they are connecting to. The confusion among humans about the bonds, even the…

Why would Tad and Heron and everyone else want to keep Dotty from admitting publicly that she is the Heartsinger? Heron recalls a time when Heartsingers were kidnapped. While Tad and Hess think that was a long time ago, they still understand the danger. Tad tries to explain it to Dotty, people will be coping…

One of the more interesting things about writing about a fictional planet is getting to makeup all the dangers. I especially enjoy natural dangers, things that are not necessarily a bad person messing up the characters life. To that end we got the stinger, that nasty flying bug that stung Heron in book 2. We…