Country Bus Service

With the publication of the first two books of the Far Coast I feel the need to explain why they have all come at once. And if that causes a raised eyebrow then rest assured that the third book will be out very shortly.

The reason lies in the chronology which is non-sequential. Book one takes place twenty years after book two. That is nothing new, just a 'prequel'. However book three starts before book two and ends after book one so events in both the first two books impact the third directly and vice versa. It has meant keeping careful note of what was, and wasn't, said so that people didn't refer to things they had no knowledge of. Or indeed fail to react to things that should have influenced them.

I am aided and abetted by the characters who are occasionally forgetful or misinformed. For example when Eldred tells Jennifer that the Duke left his lands with a nephew he is just repeating wrong information he had heard. Eldred has no way, and little interest, in knowing that Deregar is a cousin, and not a nephew, of the Duke.

There is some hope that the next book will be more conventional. But they haven't told me what it's about yet.