I Never Do A Full Outline, And

At The Time I Wrote Xone I Had Never Been On The Internet.

I Did Not Know At First That It Would Be A Series; I Discovered After The First Novel That I Had More To Say About It, So I Did Another. And Another, And Then The Readers Demanded Yet More.

That Most Dangerous Of Opponents: The One Who Took Pains To Comprehend The Position Of His Adversary.

I Maintain An Ongoing Survey Of Internet Publishing And Self Publishing, So That It Is Now Possible For Any Writer With A Book To Get It Published At Nominal Cost Or Free, And To Have It On Sale At Booksellers Like Amazon.com.

At This Slower Pace The Journey Took A Couple Of Days, And I Fought Off A Few Minor Threats Along The Way --griffins, Carnivorous Plants, Giant Serpents, Hostile Centaurs, That Sort Of Thing, Purely Routine --and I Was Beginning To Get Bored When At Last The Dusky Towers Of Castle Roogna Hove Into View.