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Let's Talk The Birthday Present and Millhaven Castle

8/14/2018

 
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It's time to dig deeper into this book. It's one a lot of you might not know anything about and it has two parts. The first story, The Birthday Present, was a futuristic idea that I actually wrote pages and pages and pages about. But it resulted in this shorter story instead. Originally I wanted to create a themed series, but I went on to other projects and this book became a stand-alone, so--no series. (But that might explain the "Homeschooler Fantasy Series Volume One" you'll see burned into one of the print editions.) 

Millhaven Castle, the second story in the book, was a bit of a problem because I went through 3 different-yet-very-similar versions of this story. After sorting all my stories, I've repackaged, rearranged, or rewritten almost all of them. One of these little Alyce stories was published with The Birthday Present. I eventually created a new edition that said just "The Birthday Present" in the title, but "Millhaven Castle" somehow made its way back into it. The two stories belong together because they both talk--in different ways--about culture clash and the theme of both is bringing two different cultures together. So it makes sense to bring two different genres together to have a little culture clash of their own! 

​Millhaven was also in an anthology called Facets of Fantasy for ages, but I eventually cut it and put it into this book instead. It tells a great story combined with "The Birthday Present," whereas the rest of the Facets stories have lost readership over time. And "Millhaven Castle" doesn't need to appear in two different books anyway. Still not sure why having an old period-landscape painting works at all for the cover of a book with a sci-fi story,  but in this case I think there's really no reason to care about that. 
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    I write stories about human emotions--about the journey of life. Every step of it can be meaningfully great or simply terrible and you can only reach the end after experiencing many kinds of things that make you grow. Emotional travels are the travels of life and the road of living is not one planned out in notebooks or organized in Scrivener. It is felt in love, hope, and fear and developed through an understanding of why humans go through these. And, on top of that, my stories are adventure stories. History, fantasy, and daily modern situations are all adventures as long as you don't know for sure what's going to happen when you wake up each day. Because that would be like repeating the same day over and over again and who wants to do that?

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