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The Twin Souls #13
Steel Waters
King Markel has taken the Sorian town of the South Sea Pass. His troops are victorious.
There will be rewards... some are deadly.
Colonel Thomas Walpish of the Kingsland Cavalryis dubious of the honor the King dispenses on him –a specially made crimson leather jacket.
Assassin Skara Ningan has been given eight magicalquarrels for her crossbow – but only seven targets. “They’llbe wearing crimson jackets.”
In a world of magic, airships, dragons, and meddlesomegods, treachery plumbs new depths – and honor can befound in the strangest places.
Continue your journey today!
130 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 27, 2019
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Todd McCaffrey
118 books541 followersTodd J. McCaffrey (born as Todd Johnson) is an Irish American author of science fiction best known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.
Todd Johnson was born 27 April 1956 in Montclair, New Jersey as the second son and middle child of Horace Wright Johnson (deceased 2009), who worked for DuPont, and Anne McCaffrey (deceased 2011), who had her second short story published that year. He has two siblings: Alec Anthony, born 1952, and Georgeanne ("Gigi", Georgeanne Kennedy), born 1959.
Except for a six-month DuPont transfer to Dusseldorf, Germany, the family lived most of a decade in Wilmington, Delaware, until a 1965 transfer to New York City when they moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island. All three children were then in school and Anne McCaffrey became a full-time author, primarily writing science fiction. About that time, Todd became the first of the children to read science fiction, the Space Cat series by Ruthven Todd. He attended his first science fiction convention in 1968, Lunacon in New York City.
Soon after the move, Todd was directed to lower his voice as an actor in the fourth-grade school play, with his mother in the auditorium. That was the inspiration for Decision at Doona (1969) which she dedicated "To Todd Johnson—of course!" The story is set on "an overcrowded planet where just talking too loud made you a social outcast".
Anne McCaffrey divorced in 1970 and emigrated to Ireland with her two younger children, soon joined by her mother. During Todd's school years the family moved several times in the vicinity of Dublin and struggled to make ends meet, supported largely by child care payments and meager royalties.
Todd finished secondary education in Ireland and returned to the United States in 1974 for a summer job before matriculation at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He studied engineering physics and discovered computers but remained only one year. Back in Dublin he earned a Mechanical Engineering degree at the College of Technology (Bolton Street). Later he earned a Politics degree at Trinity College, Dublin.
Before Trinity College, Todd Johnson served in the United States Army 1978–82, stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, and determining to pursue civilian life. After Trinity he returned to the US hoping to work in the aerospace industry but found employment in computer programming beginning 1986.
He earned a pilot's license in 1988 and spent a lot of time flying, including solo trips across North America in 1989 and 1990. Meanwhile he sold his first writings and contributed "Training and Fighting Dragons" to the 1989 Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, using his military and flight experience. Next year he quit his job to write full-time and in 1992 he attended the Clarion Workshop for new science fiction and fantasy writers.
Writing under the name Todd Johnson until 1997/98 he specialized in military science fiction, contributing one story each to several collective works
As a boy, Todd accompanied his mother to her meetings with writers, editors, publishers, and agents; and had attended conventions from age 12.
He was exposed to Pern before its beginning: soon after the move to Long Island when he was nine, his mother asked him what he thought of dragons; she was brainstorming about their "bad press all these years".
The result was a "technologically regressed survival planet" whose people were united against a threat from space, in contrast to America divided by the Vietnam War. "The dragons became the biologically renewable air force."
About thirty years later, Todd McCaffrey recalls,
"the editor at Del Rey asked me to write a "sort of scrapbook" about Mum partly to prevent Mum from writing her autobiography instead of more Pern books. That was Dragonholder [1999].
The editor had also pitched it to me that someone ought to continue Mum's legacy when she was no longer able. At the time I had misgivings and no stor
Todd Johnson was born 27 April 1956 in Montclair, New Jersey as the second son and middle child of Horace Wright Johnson (deceased 2009), who worked for DuPont, and Anne McCaffrey (deceased 2011), who had her second short story published that year. He has two siblings: Alec Anthony, born 1952, and Georgeanne ("Gigi", Georgeanne Kennedy), born 1959.
Except for a six-month DuPont transfer to Dusseldorf, Germany, the family lived most of a decade in Wilmington, Delaware, until a 1965 transfer to New York City when they moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island. All three children were then in school and Anne McCaffrey became a full-time author, primarily writing science fiction. About that time, Todd became the first of the children to read science fiction, the Space Cat series by Ruthven Todd. He attended his first science fiction convention in 1968, Lunacon in New York City.
Soon after the move, Todd was directed to lower his voice as an actor in the fourth-grade school play, with his mother in the auditorium. That was the inspiration for Decision at Doona (1969) which she dedicated "To Todd Johnson—of course!" The story is set on "an overcrowded planet where just talking too loud made you a social outcast".
Anne McCaffrey divorced in 1970 and emigrated to Ireland with her two younger children, soon joined by her mother. During Todd's school years the family moved several times in the vicinity of Dublin and struggled to make ends meet, supported largely by child care payments and meager royalties.
Todd finished secondary education in Ireland and returned to the United States in 1974 for a summer job before matriculation at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He studied engineering physics and discovered computers but remained only one year. Back in Dublin he earned a Mechanical Engineering degree at the College of Technology (Bolton Street). Later he earned a Politics degree at Trinity College, Dublin.
Before Trinity College, Todd Johnson served in the United States Army 1978–82, stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, and determining to pursue civilian life. After Trinity he returned to the US hoping to work in the aerospace industry but found employment in computer programming beginning 1986.
He earned a pilot's license in 1988 and spent a lot of time flying, including solo trips across North America in 1989 and 1990. Meanwhile he sold his first writings and contributed "Training and Fighting Dragons" to the 1989 Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, using his military and flight experience. Next year he quit his job to write full-time and in 1992 he attended the Clarion Workshop for new science fiction and fantasy writers.
Writing under the name Todd Johnson until 1997/98 he specialized in military science fiction, contributing one story each to several collective works
As a boy, Todd accompanied his mother to her meetings with writers, editors, publishers, and agents; and had attended conventions from age 12.
He was exposed to Pern before its beginning: soon after the move to Long Island when he was nine, his mother asked him what he thought of dragons; she was brainstorming about their "bad press all these years".
The result was a "technologically regressed survival planet" whose people were united against a threat from space, in contrast to America divided by the Vietnam War. "The dragons became the biologically renewable air force."
About thirty years later, Todd McCaffrey recalls,
"the editor at Del Rey asked me to write a "sort of scrapbook" about Mum partly to prevent Mum from writing her autobiography instead of more Pern books. That was Dragonholder [1999].
The editor had also pitched it to me that someone ought to continue Mum's legacy when she was no longer able. At the time I had misgivings and no stor
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February 21, 2020
The beginning battle for Soria is over. Kingsland's military has been triumphant and now railways are being pushed into the new conquered territory to advance King Markel's plans. In the meanwhile, suspicious reprisals by the defeated have led to a royal death and a royal betrayal. But the assassin's arrow does not always fly true and once loyal men soon become dedicated enemies.
The 13th book in the TWIN SOUL series shifts gears to the aftermath of battle and dark and devious plans. The authors continue to build the story towards an epic ending...but what that ending may be is still to be discovered. They bring new characters, creatures, and the intervention of gods to the story as it introduces new story lines and arcs to the existing. McCaffrey and the Winner Twins, Brit and Brianna have a definite hit on their hands with even more fun ahead.
The 13th book in the TWIN SOUL series shifts gears to the aftermath of battle and dark and devious plans. The authors continue to build the story towards an epic ending...but what that ending may be is still to be discovered. They bring new characters, creatures, and the intervention of gods to the story as it introduces new story lines and arcs to the existing. McCaffrey and the Winner Twins, Brit and Brianna have a definite hit on their hands with even more fun ahead.
January 18, 2020
Total dissappointment!!
It's bad enough the suthors have been releasing this story in drips and dribbles instead of as actual books, but for Todd to totally bow out of this at this juncture, leaving us at the handd of these amatuers is disgraceful. Yet another long winded "series" I'm left wishing I hadn't started.
It's bad enough the suthors have been releasing this story in drips and dribbles instead of as actual books, but for Todd to totally bow out of this at this juncture, leaving us at the handd of these amatuers is disgraceful. Yet another long winded "series" I'm left wishing I hadn't started.
July 6, 2021
The saga continues
The story twists and turns. New characters come in to play their part. All the pieces will come together eventually. I hope.
The story twists and turns. New characters come in to play their part. All the pieces will come together eventually. I hope.
July 1, 2022
The story keeps you hooked, I just want to keep going, here's to the next novella.
August 18, 2024
picking up again!
This one was enjoyable. Pacy and clear. I like that. I will see the series through to the end, because of the ones like this!
This one was enjoyable. Pacy and clear. I like that. I will see the series through to the end, because of the ones like this!
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