Author's notes

That's something found usually at the end of historical novels, but I have written an Afterword also on my sci-fi novella AND BoI Water because I felt I needed to tell the story behind those stories. So I don't know if I should call them "author's notes" or "afterword", but I think I'm going to use that device again, especially if it's a rewrite.

In the case of my genre stories, those additions are meant to provide the reader with some behind the scenes of that particular story – think DVD extras. In Water I needed to explain why the novel-within-the-novel was written that way, in the sci-fi novella I wanted to tell the evolution of that story from novel (in Italian) to 3 screenplay versions (in English) to novella (in English).

In another novella, a rewrite of an old story originally written in 1985, I felt I needed to explain what I changed and why because hey, it's been a quarter of a century, I changed and it was unpublishable as it was! It's now a story set after Air and should come out along with the Tales of the Southern Kingdoms as soon as I find a fast beta-reader willing to go through both.

The Author's Note on the historical novel with obviously be different, as I'll use it to tell where I found some episodes, how I did my research, etc. I might add the posts I made on this blog as well, and hopefully it wont be another short story added to the novel!