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Loved reading your book,like to read more but your books never come down in price on kindle.just wandering how it works does Amazon ask the authors if they can reduce the price.or some authors always keep a set price.im a bargain hunter and not on unlimited.?
David Dalglish Sales are going to be done by either myself, for my self-published series (Half-Orcs, Paladins) or by Orbit (Shadowdance/Keepers/Seraphim). Orbit does indeed put my books on sale occasionally. I, uh, shooould put them on sale more often but tend to just leave the prices be since I have so many books either free or relatively cheap at $2.99/$3.99. Not to say I shouldn't be doing more sales or anything...
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Hi Mr Dalglish, I just finished reading your Paladins series, and you have very quickly become one of my favourite authors! I have never come across characters as compelling as Jerico and Darius (and Valessa, though just marginally less). I found that their questions of faith, morality, and ethics, along with their doubts and fears, were very relatable and personal. I am wondering if you follow a faith yourself?
David Dalglish I was raised in a very Christian household by loving parents, which has long shaped my personal faith. Of course my beliefs have grown and adjusted over the past ten years of my writing career (as I assume everyone's does as they grow older), and the Paladins series was a part of that, in particular pitting the forgiveness of the New Testament against the far stricter and rules-and-law of the Old Testament and then pushing both to their extremes.
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Hey mr dalgish any new on HO book 8 ive red all your books but the half-orc is my favourite thanknin advance?
David Dalglish I'll start writing it by the end of the month!
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Hey Mr. Dalglish, i just read the paladins series through the text adventure available on Google play stores, and i am absolutely in love with your writing. I am just curious as to which novels are about Dezrel, as well as which order would be best to read them in? Thanks in advance, a new fan.
David Dalglish Well, the easy answer is most of my novels are set on Dezrel! I have a few series set there.

The Half-Orcs
The Paladins
The Shadowdance Series
The Breaking World Trilogy

In terms of rough chronology, it goes Shadowdance - Paladins - Half-Orcs.

The Breaking World is a little different, as it takes place hundreds of years before those main three. It can basically be read at any time, though you'll probably enjoy it most after having read the Half-Orcs series in particular.

As for a recommended reading order, I generally suggest Shadowdance as the opener, and then reading either Paladins or Half-Orcs, and since you've already read the Paladins, well, HO it is :)
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Mr. Dalglish it's me again, uhh I've just read Robert Duperre's note on blood of Gods and he mentioned something about three more books coming, when will they show up?
David Dalglish Sadly, the likelihood of those being written are very, very low. Neither of us are in a place to dedicate so much time and effort, and I don't believe the publisher of the Breaking World books is interested in them, either.
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Hi Mr. Dalglish, I've read all your books about dezrel except for blood of gods which I've just started reading, and I'm wondering when will king of the fallen show up? (having just read why everything's delayed). Ps I'm sorry about my grammar, I'm a filipino:>
David Dalglish I'm a little delayed from my previous goal, but I should start writing it in January, so from there, likely about 4-6 months?
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I am quite late to the game but will there be more Paladin books one day?
David Dalglish I highly, highly doubt it given that Jerico returns from his personal retreat in the third Half-Orc book, leaving not much story to tell. I also started folding in parts of the Paladins into the Half-Orcs as a whole, hence Darius's appearance in books six and seven. So in my mind, any potential sequel ideas are already being done in the Half-Orcs anyway.
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Mr. Dalgish, Are all of your books in print, or are most of them e-books? I collect and enjoy my personal library. I am hoping to add to my Dalgish collection, so printed books work best for me personally. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
David Dalglish All of my books should be available in print, and for sale on Amazon's store, even my self-published ones.
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Ever consider movie rights? I know how daunting it must be as you'd want it done correctly. Possibly a series to get more involved with all the awesome characters. For any of the Dezrel tales, Half-Orcs or Shadowdance would be awesome.
David Dalglish It doesn't work like that. Generally Hollywood has to come knocking, not the other way around. Trust me, I'd die to see a Shadowdance adaptation :)
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Hey David, you ever think about writing a Deathmask or Thren backstory novel? Or even a cool novel about what would Zusa's life was like after Shadowdance with that cliffhanger?
David Dalglish Deathmask: Probably not. I've dabbled a bit into his history in HO7 and that's about as far as I'm interested in.

Thren: I already did, in the Cloak and Spider collection!

Zusa: one day...one day...she'll appear in HO9.
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I really love your ShadowDance series. Are you gonna ever write a series that takes place after it?
David Dalglish Well, I kind of already have! The Half-Orcs Series begins with the same battle that Dance of Chaos ends with, and it also features a lot of similar characters (particularly the Eschaton Mercenaries). So I'd say give them a look if you're interested in more.
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Hi! Would you mind if I took Qurrah's "Hemmorage" ability from your Half-orcs series and make it a Homebrew spell for my D&D campaign? The design I have is pretty brutal!
David Dalglish Of course I wouldn't mind! Which edition is this for? 3.5, 4th, or 5th? And if you're brave enough, you need to post it here. Gotta make sure it's balanced, after all!
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I don’t know if anyone has asked this or not, but what series of your books tie into each other? I gleaned from your wiki that breaking world was a prequel to shadowdance, though I don’t know how true that is seeing how I’ve only just started book one of BW. Also, I love the depth you put into every character, no matter how small the part! Keep it up!
David Dalglish Pretty much everything set in the world of Dezrel ties into each other. The Breaking World books detail the initial war between Karak and Ashhur, and then hundreds of years later, the books fall in fairly close sequence with each other. Roughly Shadowdance happens first, then The Paladins and the Half-Orcs. All four series share some characters, such as the Paladins, which features the Paladin Jerico, who was first introduced in the third book of the Half-Orcs.

I hope that helps a bit!
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I've been a long time fan of your Shadow Dance Series and just came to find Blood of the underworld. Is this a squeal to the previous series? I saw this was published first which confuses me but I'm excited at the prospect.
David Dalglish Blood of the Underworld was the start of a planned new trilogy prior to Orbit buying the rights to the Shadowdance Series (which at the time was only three books). So Blood of the Underworld was renamed A Dance of Shadows, and made book four of Shadowdance. Does that make sense?

I also wrote a FAQ about the whole Orbit purchase way back when, which might also help explain. You can read it here: http://ddalglish.com/wp/2013/11/26/fa...
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are you ever going to release a New Half Orcs Novel? I love that Series..
David Dalglish Yes, I will write HO8, even if it's the last book I ever write. Just, hopefully way sooner than that.
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Who did the cover art for your Half-Orc series? It's stunning!
David Dalglish That'd be Peter Ortiz. Awesome guy who's always been wonderful to work with. You can see a bunch of his art at his Deviant Art page here: https://www.deviantart.com/peter-ortiz
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Mr.Dalgish, I love the Shadowdance series. So far it is the only one I read in full, however, I own the first of the Half-Orc series and plan to read that. I am reading the Shadowdance series over because I enjoyed it so much. My question is and it might have been said in the book but I somehow missed it twice. How old was Alyssa Gemcroft in the beginning of Dance of Cloaks?
David Dalglish Just going off memory, but I believe she was 18 or 19.
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