Currently I'm working on the first novel in a sprawling new fantasy universe called Karavans. Three volumes are under contract, but I have set up the world so that I may write an unlimited number of books, from singletons to dualogies to trilogies, depending on where my imagination takes me. Karavans is a vast history combining a cast of humans, demons, devils, beasts, gods and demi-gods, sprites, nymphs, and dryads, and a magical land called Alisanos. A sentient hell-on-earth, Alisanos appears and disappears at random for weeks, years, or centuries, taking with it everything–and everyone–in its path. No one swallowed by Alisanos ever returns to the world fully human. A short story set in the Karavans universe appeared in DAW's 30th Anniversary Fantasy Anthology. Click on the link below to read it. I've also signed with DAW to write three more Cheysuli novels. All will be set in the timeline of the original 8-volume series. The first will feature the story of the 5-year exile of Finn and Carillon in foreign lands. Chronologically it fits between the first volume, Shapechangers, and the second, The Song of Homana. The second new novel is a prequel to original series and will tell the tale of Hale and Lindir, recounting how the ethnic cleansing of the qu'mahlin came to be. The third new novel features the adventures of Corin and Keely after Daughter of the Lion, as both begin new lives in Atvia and Erinn. 
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