Lisa Lenox asked C. Gockel:

LOVED your series! But why do you write in third-person present-tense? A bit off-putting. BTW- it's Ukraine, not The Ukraine. Anyway, LOVED it. Can't wait to see your next work!

C. Gockel I'm sorry you felt it was off-putting. I actually love writing in third person present tense, I love reading it too, it feels like I'm in the moment with the characters. Especially once In the Balance and Fates began I felt like it worked with the story too, so many memories overlapping with the present.

Thank you for reading the series even though you didn't like the tense it was written in. I am writing the Archangel Project in the third-person past-tense ... I miss present tense and it seems to make so much more sense for Sci-Fi that takes place in the future! But I'm trying to be more "marketable."

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