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This post was originally published in February 2008.

It’s been an interesting week.

On Tuesday, I submitted Cyndere’s Midnight, the sequel to Auralia’s Colors, to the editors at WaterBrook Press. There’s still some “trimming” and editing to do, but it’s almost ready to go.

Time flies when you’re working a full-time desk job, writing movie reviews, and then spending six-to-seven hours in the evening (and all weekend) hunched over a hot laptop writing fiction.

The difference between Auralia’s Colors and Cyndere’s Midnight will probably surprise some readers. While the first book was often meditative, very descriptive, and it led them slowly toward a violent finale, the second book is quite different. It has a lot of action all the way through. It’s full of chases, battles, narrow escapes, monsters, miracles, and cliffhangers. (In fact, Cal-raven literally hangs from a cliff during one particularly intense battle scene.)

And instead of focusing on two children caught up in a frightening world of grownup problems, Cyndere’s Midnight (“Cyndere” is pronounced “SIN-der”) focuses on a grieving widow and a murderous monster, and what happens when the two meet in the wilderness.

Anyway, in the excitement of finishing Cyndere’s Midnight, I almost forgot to observe a certain anniversary…

It was during this very week in 2007, one year ago, that Through a Screen Darkly landed on bookstore shelves and arrived in mailboxes all over the place. (more…)