Evening, we’re four days from the publication of Fire Betrayed. If you order your Kindle copy now it’ll arrive on your account just after midnight 1st December 2017. If you order a paperback copy on Friday you should have it a few days later. And remember, there will be some special offers just for release day.
Anyway, back to the point of this post. Erce, the world of the Fire Series, and the short stories that should be published sometime next year, is part of the story as much as any of the human characters. Part of writing the stories has been the process of feeling out the world the characters lived in. Erce built itself as I tried to work out why the Empress of Belenos would interfere in Northern Isles politics, or why attitudes to magic and technology would differ between kingdoms. Later novels in the series will bring up bits of information about Sumoast and the relationship between Umar and Camar that make sense in the context of the novels but opened up the rest of the world as I was writing. I had to put the information somewhere so it didn’t overwhelm the narrative.
Everything Is Better With Dragons 