Discussions on NewEarth

One of the problems starting in book 2 or Heron’s Bonds is keeping all the characters straight. As time goes on we’ll provide some charts and things, but my wonderful artist has provided a bit of a visual. Let me know if that helps.

You can see why we have the books all numbered as there are so many, but they also have nicknames. 1 is Pride, 2 is Heron and Trissy. As we publish more of the others I’ll give you the other nicknames. As people read Heron’s Bonds, I hate to put something in the blog that…

If you were Gordon and had seen your relatives treating Grabon and the others with anything less than respect would you have spoken up before Grabon and Heron noticed there was a problem? As soon as he realized that Trissy noticed, did you expect him to jump from his stool and throw them all out…

When Trissy realizes that young dragons are expelled from their home territory at fifteen and that her children are likely to want to go awandering with the dragon youngsters, she plants her very human feet and demands Grabon set a territory rule. Heron is hugely amused by this and so is Grabon, but in the…

Weather comes in all shapes and sizes, but storms have a special place in my heart. I am not sure if it was growing up in Chicago, going to college in a Midwest corn field or living in Alaska for twenty years, but I do enjoy a good storm. In the NewEarth books, the storms…

Over the cycles, Grabon of course made friends with many dragons but   One group in particular made a big impression on him and Heron both. First of all they were older, still unsettled and unmated, these five rascals were often in the middle of one kind of trouble or another. Not long before Grabon…

There is her obvious skill with carving which is fantastic, impressive and artistic, but the skill I always think about is her ability to enter the wood and have her energy blend seemlessly with the trees. That strikes me as even more interesting and significant. Grabon could not sense her presence and as the story…

Let us have a moment of honesty. You can even send me a message with your answer. If you were invited to fly with a dragon and a partner, even if you knew that they were still learning to coordinate energy, would you accept? Would you keep your eyes open? I thought Eldon handled himself…

Did you notice anything about Griss that set him apart from the others? Well of course he has the kid, stuck in some other territory nest and he seems very interested in getting him back, but did you notice anything else? He comes from a long line of dragon brew makers, and not only wine,…

Fin is an interesting kid. In Gordon’s Pride, he is firmly attached to his brother, very much a human child. During Heron’s Bonds you see him begin to show glimpses of the man he is going to become. It is impressive and startling. He is a Tailor, partnered to a dragon who is a brew…

I am a big believer that one of life’s predictable constants is change. That comes into my writing because my characters change, grow, evolve as does my setting and hopefully the reader’s understanding of the world I created. I call that kind of writing a slow reveal because the reader only gains so much information…

Unfortunately we do not have an image of these large hunters, the ones that cornered Brom and Trissy in the woods, making that proud fierce dragon feel foolish. Athena will draw them up for us, but until she does, feel free to make suggestions.