I was still writing Warrior's Wrath when I started thinking about book five of The Warrior Chronicles.

Even then, I knew it would be darker than the earlier volumes. Really dark. So much so, that I may lose readers over its content. That didn’t stop me from writing it though.

In reality, I don’t really think of myself as a writer anyway. I’m more of a biographer for my characters. I let them tell me what happened to them. My wife laughs at me, because I’m often as surprised by what I put on paper as readers are when they buy my books.

In the end though, I have to admit that whatever makes it to the final version of a book came from my mind. Time travel, loyalty, inclusion, whatever you read in my books was born inside my psyche. And I know what is in Warrior's Curse came from some dark recess deep in my mind. That scares me. Or at least it did.

The reality is, like your favorite foods or your capacity for charity, good and evil are subjective. The exact same act can be interpreted a multitude of ways.