Hello to everyone, I'm new.

[S.B.]

I am an author and reader of mysteries. This is my first published novel, published by Black Opal Books. I am happy to be in a community of writers and readers rather than just sitting at my computer writing and marketing and talking to myself or my characters.
http://sbredstoneauthor.com

Steve

[Laurel]

Steven wrote: "I am an author and reader of mysteries. This is my first published novel, published by Black Opal Books. I am happy to be in a community of writers and readers rather than just sitting at my comput..."

Welcome. My second book is a medieval mystery called "Ghosts of the Past." . So I'm a colleague in that respect.

This is a good group. You will find a lot to talk about and discuss. Welcome!

[S.B.]

thank you. We are colleagues as we indulge our fantasies in interesting worlds.

[Abby]

Welcome, Steven. This is a great place to be. Hope to see you around the community.

Abby L. Vandiver
Author, In the Beginning

[Laurel]

Steven wrote: "thank you. We are colleagues as we indulge our fantasies in interesting worlds."

My fantasies are not that dark. Writing "Ghosts" actually stimulated nightmares and some of my darkest and most deeply repressed childhood memories. It was psychologically very draining for me to write it, actually.

But as the middle chapter of my Anlei's Legacy trilogy arc (The Peers of Beinan is structured as a series of linked trilogies rather than as one neverending story), Ghosts was my "Empire Strikes Back." The story needed to move in a very particular direction. You cannot rebuild a world (book three) until you first destroy it.