I know what you're thinking...no, I didn't fail math in school.So why the strange title?Well, for those of you who are just now joining my readership, the books in The Avalon Relics series have been on quite the journey over the last year or so.  When I originally released the first edition of Lilith Links, the image on the front cover was actually a pair of hands (fun trivia fact - they were my hands) wearing the links.  A couple of months after the release, I ended up scratching the cover because I was getting too many comments that the positioning of the hands made it seem like the subject of the book was religion.  I reached out to a local artist I met at one of the comic conventions I attend to redo the cover as I was a fan of her work.  A few more months after that, I had the cover that most of you recognize now, with the golden color and the Lilith links front and center.When I went about writing the second book in the series, entitled Lailan Crown, I already had it in my mind that this series would be a trilogy.  I had the whole general plot outlined in my mind, and I knew what it would take to get through the story.  As the months passed, I diligently plugged away at page after page of my fantasy world, intent on creating a world lush with beautiful scenery, creatures, and peoples.  I laughed with my characters during times of joy, cried with them during times of sorrow, and resisted the urge to slap them when they made stupid mistakes and impulsive moves.  Once the story reached a natural stopping point, I deemed the book complete and published it.*ahem*ALL 625 PAGES OF IT.Okay, okay, so maybe I hoped no one would notice that Lailan Crown was twice the size of Lilith Links.  Perhaps I wanted to believe that my readers would just accept it as a Happy Potter-esque increase in book size.  There might also be the possibility that I felt the book needed to be that long to tell the story properly.  No matter my original intent or reasoning, I did publish the book as it was, and then I set upon selling both to the masses.It didn't take very long before reality set in with the subtlety of a slap in the face.  Potential reader after reader balked at the sheer size of the second volume, their eyes growing wide with alarm at the weight of the bound book in their hands.  Still, they gave it their best shot, and admittedly came back to let me know they loved it despite the length.  I even had one brave and precocious ten year old girl take it to school and read it during her downtime, earning the stares and disbelief of her peers.  Her fan letter (my first!) to me documented how she didn't care if everyone in her class thought the book was too big to read at her age, and that she loved every moment of it.After months of having to explain my motivation for creating such a behemoth over and over again, I hung my head in defeat.  What was I to do?  The book was already out and my readers had already given their blessing despite initial reservations.  I knew what had to be done, honestly, but I was beyond reluctant.  Lailan Crown needed to be broken up into two books or it would be too intimidating for new readers.  I agonized over it for weeks, wracking my brain to figure out a way to reconcile the creative prerogative of being the author with the desires and needs of my audience.It wasn't until I sat down with my particularly brilliant friend Laura during lunch one day that she suggested a way to split the book that didn't seem like a grave injustice to my artistic integrity.  By the time we parted ways my decision was made.  Within days I began work on the new edits, adding in elements that I had to leave out due to the original length of Lailan Crown to allow for a fairly reasonable place to divide the pages.  It took a while, as I wanted to make sure what I was putting in was not just fluff designed to fill pages.  Finally, I completed the new drafts and prepared them for print.In the meantime, I was also privy to feedback from various readers and those in the publishing world that the current covers were not comparable to those in my genre.  In layman's terms, they weren't eye-catching enough to compete with other titles.  Unfortunately, the adage that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover apparently does not actually literally apply.  People do judge a book by its cover, especially when we're talking about young adults.  So, I eventually reached out to some incredibly talented artists who had already created some character art for me to redo the covers, with the intent of re-releasing all the titles (including the newly split Lailan Crown) once they were done.All right, you say, that explains how one book is now two, but was does "three is five" mean?If you haven't figured it out by now, The Avalon Relics was originally intended to be a trilogy.  However, I knew after completing Lailan Crown that there was enough material left to create a third book that would be at least as long as the second.  This obviously would be an issue, so I preemptively decided I would turn my trilogy into a penology.  The change gave me the freedom to complete the stories of the Fearless Five and the faeids in the way I always imagined it in my mind.So, for clarity's sake, this is what the original series was planned to be:Lilith Links (Book One), Lailan Crown (Book Two), Amulet of Morgana (Book Three)Now, this is how the series will look:Lilith Links (Book One), Origo Key (Book Two), Laila's Crown (Book Three), Amulet of Morgana (Book Four), Electus Prophecy (Book Five)Thank you to all of my readers who have stuck with me during this transition, and I can't wait to share the new covers and art with you!  Keep your eyes peeled in the coming weeks, and don't forget to sign up for my mailing list to be the first to find out about for giveaways and contests!Lucent lux vestra!