Heart of a Chalyn: Chapter 10
The setting for the hidden kazera colony was inspired by Hang Son Doong in Vietnam is the largest known cave in the world. References: CNN Travel: World’s biggest cave is even bigger than we thought Wikipedia: Hang Son Doong National Geographic: Explore the World’s Largest Cave...
Heart of a Chalyn: Chapter 9
When imagining Serena’s drawings, I had M.C. Escher and his Metamorphosis works in mind. Serena’s sketches were far too intricate to be called doodling. Continuous bands of precise width morphed one pattern into another in a blocky spiral from the paper’s edges to the center. A flock of geese...
Heart of a Chalyn: Chapter 8
Let’s talk about how Ashlon came to be the Rhi’Camran. Lothor wanted to go back to sea. When he is first introduced in Legend of the Storm Hawks, he has just returned from serving in the Innish Navy. He left because of the restrictions placed on Rhynns, and he...
Heart of a Chalyn: Chapter Extras
All the Heart of a Chalyn end-of-chapter extras are listed here. Be forewarned some may contain SPOILERS if sampled ahead of the book....
Ain’t As Easy As It Looks
I found and snapped this tonight from one of the many work-in-progress notebooks I used while writing Rootstock Saga. After 8+ years of shifting Patterns, fickle mindgifts, multiple continents, even more cultures, and let’s not count the named characters… it all converges. SPOILER ALERT Or not. This isn’t really...