I hope you are enjoying my posting of Senta and the Steel Dragon Book 0: Brechalon.  I decided to post it the other day and so just started, and I assure you it was was not because I couldn’t think of anything worthwhile to talk about.

Here’s a little background of the book.  I wrote Senta and the Steel Dragon as a three-part book in 2007-2008.  After realizing that the book was just too big, I split it up into three parts.  Later for some reason I can’t even begin to recall, I decided that I needed to write two more parts to fit in between the others.  So my original manuscript became parts 1, 3, and 5.  I split up the three and polished up the first book.  Once I decided to publish it myself, I decided I needed to write a prequel to introduce the story to potential readers.  So the six books ended up being written in this order: one, three, five, zero, two, four.

The books were released as follows: Books 0, 1, 2, and 3 in 2010.  Books 4, 5 in 2012.

When I wrote Brechalon, I was writing it for people who hadn’t read The Voyage of the Minotaur, so I was careful not to reveal too much.  I tried to be particularly careful with Terrence and his visions under the influence of his drug.  On the other hand, in order to make the story work I had to let out some details that I had not originally planned.  Specifically, we see Zurfina in prison– something that Senta doesn’t find out about until late in the series.