���so much so that it���s the first Thieves��� Guild book to make it toaudiobook format. The answer is complicated, as always��� when is it ever not complicated?
Kheris is LC. It���s first person LC so this is him telling his story. Andnot only that, but he���s telling the story in the middle of a battle whenthey���re surrounded by Bhenykhn. It���s the line in BD when he says he owes Mendhel so much��� the one linerin that second book when he says his knee doesn���t hurt anymore after hurting forso long��� why he hates AIs and that nightmare he has of kneeling in the dustwith a gun to his head���
And the reason why Kheris was so significant? Yeah, you don���t reallyfind out why until Book Five, or seven��� or one, depending which way you look atit, and even then it���s not the whole story��� when would I ever tell the wholestory?
But back to Kheris Burning��� I love it because it���s raw. I almost didn���trelease it because it was too raw, and too real. It���s a kid growing up in a warzone. It���s ���if Romeo and Juliet had a kid, on a scuzz bucket, war-torn miningcolony in deep space, this is what happened thirteen years later���. It���s aboutnot belonging. It���s about lying and deceit. It���s YA sci fi, alien invasionadventures, my usual fast-paced military science fiction stuff, but this isalso LC, and anyone who knows me, anyone who has read any of my stuff, knows howimportant LC is to me.
And that���s why Kheris Burning is so important to me, and why I had totake time out of the main series to write it. Thank you to everyone forhumouring me while I got this out of my system. Thank you to Clinton Herigstadfor bringing it to life for the audiobook. And thank you, as always, to Hattand the munchkins, and the rest of my family and friends, for putting up withme.
I���m back with Hil for Book Six (eight? two?)��� and I must admit it���sweird because neither of us are where we were eleven years ago. There is goingto be a young LC Book Three at some point, and Redemption is next on the listfor Clinton and the audiobooks. But for now, it���s the big stuff so I���m stockingup on rum and listening to old Linkin Park.
Will be in touch again, and maybe it won���t be a year from now��� or maybeit will. Who knows?Cheers,CGH
ps. And yes, Book Five, Darkest Fears, is out��� at last!
KherisBurning (Thieves��� Guild Origins: LC Book One) is out now in audiobook format onAudible.
DarkestFears (Thieves��� Guild Book Five: Bhenykhn Wars Book 1) is out now in paperbackand on Kindle.