Get the book on Amazon Kindle here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThis book was first published in 2016, and here I am, coming up to ten years later, writing this preface after having made all sorts of little edits and changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why? (Yes, I can clearly hear you asking!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, let me explain. My writing process for any story involves going backward and forwards, creating links between events that help ensure that everything ‘adds up’ at the end. I think it is where I do the \u2018clever bits\u2019, and without it nothing is every balanced up correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I have learned the hard way that my process for single books did not work when applied to a whole series, where parts were published and ‘set in stone’. Some threads subsequently forced me down paths which, given the freedom of the unpublished, I would have changed or redirected. I increasingly found that my characters wanted to develop, needed to even, in ways that I had not provided room for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, I admit it. Some things about Sapphira and friends I only realised years after I first published!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, this new addition serves a purpose. Let me make clear, though, that it was not my intention to make significant changes to the basic story, and most of the text is quite unaltered. What I have done here is to to smooth out certain aspects and improve the flow of the overall series. Here and there I might simplify things and, hopefully, clarify my ideas for the reader. The roots of themes I want to later develop are now more firmly planted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, making these modifications has been quite an interesting experience. A little painful, a little exciting, but ultimately it was an itch that need to be scratched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So here we are. The other books in the series will be likewise updated, and some will need more changes than others. But this one was first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do enjoy the read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lots of love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alyson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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