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[healerqueen]

"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

—Robert Southey

[healerqueen]

A Letter

I decided to join in the Chesterton Challenge, answering the prompt "Letter." It gave me the motivation to write a letter I'd been meaning to write for years, from one of my original characters to another, at a certain point in their book series. It was fun to explore their daily life between books and to see how they'd express (or hide) what they felt about each other at that point in the story.

[healerqueen]

WIP Ask Game: College and Capital

This is the only one of the numbered books in my main series that really has a code name or tag line. It started out as a novella, so I call it Book 2.5. But it's really the third book in the series.

This is the first of two books focused primarily on my main protagonist, Arienna. She's a healer and young noblewoman who decides to go to university to get a medical degree. She will be one of the first women to go to medical school in her medieval-esque kingdom, and a member of one of the first classes at the new royal university. Book 2.5, the College and Capital book, is different from Books 1, 2, and 3, which function as a trilogy with an ensemble cast, about adventure, politics, and war. The College and Capital book is more like a period drama with political intrigue. It has sweet friendship, a budding romance, royal balls, court gossip, an assassination attempt (and subsequent patching-up of a wounded character), a meadow picnic, a royal library, secret passages (maybe), and a dance by moonlight. It's definitely still in progress, sometimes actively and sometimes on the back burner. I worked on it recently by re-outlining one section of the book. This book is a sequel, so I won't be writing the draft for a while. But it is one of my very favorites out of all my books, and I'm excited to keep writing it.

[kaguerrer]

I'll be your Queen if you're my King