To avoid spoilers, I will say that in Madness & Reckoning, Marcus and Mandubratius separately must cope with the aftermath of the events at the end of Crone of War. We've also left the door open for additional works during this time period. We hashed together this idea of writing a small book of short-stories to tie the plots of the two manuscripts together and to explain how these key characters evolved from one story to another. We realized that we needed some way to bridge the gap, to address some of the questions readers would ask as to what happened to these characters during the 275 or so years between the end of Crone of War and the beginning of Dark Alliance. Heather and I had a moment, after finishing the manuscript of Shards of Light (the fifth novel of the Morrigan's Brood Series), when we realized we had written key characters in the newer manuscript (Dark Alliance, Curse of Venus, and Shards of Light) vastly different than the first manuscript, which contained Morrigan's Brood and Crone of War. If course we often come to the conclusion that the old work is done and I've moved on. deepen characters, enhance the imagery, and so forth. Of course if you are writing series fiction, you make improvements to your new works. We authors sometimes look back on our older works and see things we wish we could change.
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