For those of you who didn’t know we have been moving house. A tedious business that also involved a lot of travel as our new house is 190km or 118 miles from our old address. Two and half hours by car.
Uplift (i.e. they loaded our stuff) was the 19th and delivery the 20th.
This is my new office: (When the weather is fine)
View from office to the left and the right and then the left
I wrote nothing last week due to all the travel etc.
Where we are at:
Kyron the rescuer is at the editor finally
I have started on the Kelad Onslaught which is the third New Federation book.
I am thinking that the next Ithria book will be one joint volume with both Taroniah and Kyron working together….. it depends on how much storyline there is.
The first Western Reaches book (The further adventures of Princess Gizel) should follow the Ithria book or books.
After that – tentatively – Taroniah at Home and Kyron the Conquerer.
and then we’ll see.
Peter
rhodanblog 
Your new office is lovely and with such a nice view… I’m envious! 🙂
If Taroniah and Kyron are going to be working together, it does make sense to combine the two books, even if you have to go to 2 volumes, it would probably be better then to retread the same ground just from different POV’s. Really, really looking forward to “Kyron the Rescuer”, I’ve just reread the last 5 books and a couple things struck me. One is why did Taroniah have to heat up water for her bath while she was traveling in the last book? why couldn’t she have used the Heat spell that she mentioned when she was with her brother and sharing spells? I don’t believe she was magically depleted at the time and not anticipating meeting up with the God and his army right then. Of course that led me to wondering why she hasn’t created water pipes with the heat spell embedded into some of them, they could probably mix a dye with the slurry or paint those pipes with a colored stripe? not sure at what level their ceramics is at during that time, but since cloth is being dyed they surely have something that could be used. Hmm, she would probably have to combine the heat spell with the water spell so it wouldn’t activate until water was going through the pipes and then at a very low heat point. Just some thoughts.
Oh while I was doing the re-read I followed along on the big map and it really helped me not getting lost, but Dryam Island’s placement on the map is an issue. On the map it is off the coast of Finewenian Empire, but in Kyron the Invader, it was mentioned several times as being off the coast of Pilia. There is a tiny Island off the coast of Pilia, but it is unnamed on the map. Not a big deal, just thought I would mention it if you update the map at some point.
Thank you for continuing the series while you life was in upheaval over the new home and the move.
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Also there are Two Dryan Islands – one at the bottom of Pilia and one below the Finewanian Empire
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Sorry – I wrote a long reply and then pressed delete accidentally>>>
As far as heating water is concerned – author error – sorry
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Would the military good water spell remove the salt from seawater? Seems odd that
ships run low on water.
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no – it is primarily an anti-bacterial spell (not that they see it in those terms) enabling soldiers to drink from streams and other water sources that have dubious water quality. You will note there is very little water related disease affecting the armies in the Ithria books.
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Lovely place. I hope you a suitable “hobbies” area for all your other interests….
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yeah – just a small 15m (45ft) long by 7.6m (23ft) wide shed out back
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great view, reminds me of why I love Oz. I hope you enjoy that view for many happy years.
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I hope so too although it is still too cold to sit out there at present. Another month or so I reckon.
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