Dates for books in Firestaff Series and Pyrosian Chronicles

[Shadowhawk]

Fel, do you remember and can write what were the dates of publishing (year only) for the successive books (and chapters) in the Sennadar Series (Firestaff Series and Pyrosian Chronicles)? Just to make order. Most of the chapters, even as late as "The Sword of Fire" are marked `Copyright 2000 by James Galloway'...

Thanks in advance...

[Tylhandras]

I can get the dates from axe 15 on because I got those the day they were posted.

[Shadowhawk]

If you please... I have edited the files so the modification dates don't correspond to creation dates.

TIA

[Tylhandras]

Sorry, I lied. There's a gap in the times I have due to the fact that I had no internet connection when some of the chapters were released.

The list is forth coming. Dead week tests and studying for finals stinks.

[Fel]

geesh...I really couldn't tell you.

Let's see...I wrote the first chapter of Firestaff in, what was it...1985? I'd gotten halfway into Honor and Blood when I was in the military, around 1990, before I shelved the project, then basicly piddled with it until 1999, at the behest of a friend on IRC who wanted to read the story. Since I had to copy it all down again anyway, I made some changes to the plot, totally redid the maps, and did some other major overhauling. That's why there are some pretty strange and unusual errors in the first 2 chapters...I'd tried to go back and edit them to the changed plot, but I missed quite a few little things, like the farm being east of Aldreth instead of west.

Hehehe, the original Firestaff was somewhat different than what you've read. In the original version, Tarrin was much more noble and nicer, because I tried for a more heroic main character, where his turning had very little effect on his personality. He was, in effect, the same young kid from Aldreth you met before he was turned through the whole series, much more able to deal with his lycanthropy. It never quite fit, though. Eventually by the third book he was walking the line of the Tarrin you'd be more familiar with, and that's where I started running into major problems in the plot that made me back off from the story for quite a while. When Chantra convinced me to send her what I had, I had much more writing experience, and was able to redo the storyline into what you know now, making Tarrin a dark hero instead of a noble one.

I think you'd agree that it was the correct choice.

There were quite a few other significant changes. Allia and Keritanima weren't in the first book in the original version; instead it was Jenna going to the Tower with him and the two of them trying to solve the puzzle, where Keritanima and Allia were introduced in the second and third books respectively. Duke Arren had a significant part in the first book, escorting Tarrin to Suld personally. Jula didn't collar Tarrin at the end of book one; instead, the ki'zadun kidnaps Jenna and tries to blackmail Tarrin into doing their bidding, but he expresses High Sorcery when confronting them and destroys the cathedral. Jesmind was in the first, but she disappears almost immediately the first book; in the original version of the story, Tarrin very nearly kills her in that moment where he nearly killed his mother, and that was what put Triana on his tail in the second book. In the original version, it was Fae-da'Nar that nearly killed Tarrin, not the Wikuni, and Mist is the one who bears his first child, not Jesmind.

hehehe, that was definitely a different plot, lol. Triana brought Mist after Tarrin recovered from his injury so he could try to heal her, which he did, and which helped break her of her ferality.

The copyright on the site was when I first released the chapters into the public domain. I think when I put them up on the site, I'd gotten somewhere into the middle of The Questing Game.

[Shadowhawk]

Thanks for the bit of history. It is interesting.

Well, then I guess I just use "Copyright (c) 2000-2005 by James Galloway", or "Copyright 1999-2005 by James Galloway".

[Wildcat]

Just curious, Fel... did you have any negative reaction to some of those changes by people who read the original? I know when I revised my first novel, I upset quite a few of my friends, who had liked bits that just didn't work in the long run.

[Fel]

Nobody ever read the original version. In fact, I'm not even sure where the spirals are now...i think I put them in storage at my uncle's farm.

[MommyDoom]

Just curious, Fel... did you have any negative reaction to some of those changes by people who read the original? I know when I revised my first novel, I upset quite a few of my friends, who had liked bits that just didn't work in the long run.

first novel? have there been more?? do we have links??

...always jonesin' for a good read!

MD

[Wildcat]

Heh.... Two done so far, though not related to each other, three more updating on a rotating schedule... but I'd rather not provide links until I get a chance to edit. The first one in particular has several glaring errors I'd like to eliminate, as well as scenes that I just don't like. The second one I don't think I'll change much, but it's got a really predictable plot and was finished only because one of my friends really likes the main character.

If anyone would be willing to help me edit the first, however, I would be willing to send files over.

[2p1k3]

there are maps? where? I've been wishing I could see a map. My head always goes into lala land whenever Fel starts describing locations.