Eliminating characters – an insider’s look at “The Shade Ring Trilogy”

As I gear up to publish the final installment in “The Shade Ring Trilogy,” I’m pleased to report that two characters I deleted from the first book before it was published DID make a comeback in books 2 and 3.  I deleted them because there were too many personalities for readers to keep up with as the story began on that expedition to sunken Charleston.Originally, the graduate students on the excursion in Chapter 1 of “The Shade Ring” included Neave Alvarez, her cousin and friend, Lena, and tw...