Author’s Note
Dearest reader:
If you’ve come to this book after reading Beasts of Tabat, I have both good and bad news for you. The good is that much of this book will shed light on some—but not all—of the events of that book. The bad is that if you want more of Bella and Teo, they are secondary characters in this book, which starts in time the same moment that Teo arrives in Tabat.
If you’re new to Tabat, the good news is that if you like this one, you’ll like Beasts of Tabat just as much, I think. I believe either book serves as a decent entrance without spoiling the other.
Why this odd and bifurcated structure? Because I’m playing around with the idea of a world created from many points of view. Because these were the characters best suited to move things along to the events of the third book, Exiles of Tabat, which returns to Bella and Teo. Because I didn’t want the books to be a traditional fantasy series, but to raise some questions about that particular structure. And because Sebastiano, Eloquence, Obedience, and Adelina all demanded their time too.
With this manuscript off, I’m now working on Book Three, and plan to turn that in by year’s end. I’m learning how to do these quicker and more efficiently, so I can say that with some degree of confidence. Only time can tell whether that will be borne out or not.
In any case, thank you for spending time in the world I’ve created. If you like it, there’s a number of short stories set in it as well, which you can find links to on my website at kittywumpus.net as well as links to other worlds in my fantasy and science fiction.
Peace,
Cat