Rayne asked Carol Berg:

Dear Carol. I do not actually have a question, or maybe I do: how did you master the art of writing so skilfully. I just finished transformation and it is truly a masterpiece. So much beauty and despair in one book. So real, one can almost taste it. The characters are so genuine, they could be sitting next to me. I would go on singing your praises for decades, thank you for the gift of your magic ! And ?

Carol Berg Dear Rayne,

Thank you so much for such a wonderful comment. You have made my day! I wrote Transformation after giving myself what I call an eight-year, self-directed writing class. A friend got me started writing a story, and I just couldn't quit. I never imagined anyone would want to read what I wrote, but it was such fun! As I wrote, I would come across an article about point of view or story openings, or I my friend and I would talk about characters and how they needed to feel like real people... and then I would rewrite the stories I'd been working on. After a while I knew they were getting better...and I went to a writer's conference and read the opening of Transformation for an editor...and she really liked it. Fortunately I did NOT try to publish the first things I wrote! (Though one of the characters from those early stories showed up in my Collegia Magica books....

Thanks for writing me!

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