My Sister's Keeper, the first volume of the Journey of the Sacred King, has been turned in for production by my editor, Karen E. Taylor. I adore working with Karen. We went over the editorial changes online is two sessions on two consecutive days. She makes me think and finds stuff I missed that would have left me horribly embarrassed if it had gone to print that way.

Authorial blindness is a very real thing. Now, I'm going to be very honest and tell you about my blushing moment so that I can illustrate my point better.

I have a battle scene in My Sister's Keeper in which an ogre (one of the good guys btw) drops this tree he has been using as a club to scoop up two mages and deposit them in a safe place before picking his club back up and wading into the bad guys. And guess what?

I had left out all mention of his uprooting that durn tree in the first place. So it was like "oops, where'd he get that tree?"

My mind, because I knew my story so well, was filling in the blanks without my noticing it.

Anyway, end of cautionary anecdote.

I have seen the artist's rough sketch for the cover and I like it. So far, it appears that this will be the best of the lot.

My Sister's Keeper was written before I started the Dark Brothers series. Some of the minor characters in the four books of the Sacred King quarto were screaming for their places in spotlights, so after I had finished the four volumes of this series, I went on to start the Dark Brothers series.

It is ironic that since Dark Brothers came out first, Sacred King might be viewed as a prequel, when actually the former was a sequel to the latter.
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