A lot of reading gets done between here and back again. People used to have a book for the subway ready at all times, like a handy tissue or a package of gum. Simple books. Books full of pleasures. Romances. Suspense. Mystery. Horror. Whatever your flavour it was there in your purse, your bag or the pocket of your sports jacket. Each chapter just long enough to devour before the last stop.
Daughters of the Teardrop Sea was meant to be one of those books. It's brief, it's basically genre and it's intended to be a simple pleasure to read. It's also the first book in an intended series 'Legends of the Half Light' or 'The 300 year war'. A sequel to "Daughters" called 'Invisible Children', the second book in the series, is complete but rough and available on my website Legends of the Half Light as well as the ongoing part of the serial titled 'Sentient Spring'. You can also read short stories there and keep up with a blog. If you have a laptop or smartphone you can even read on the subway.
All of my writing is free right now. I just read an article in a Toronto newspaper titled "In the future there will be no professional writers", written by a professional writer. That would seem to tell it all. Although I want to make a living as a writer the odds are against it, so why should I prejudice you as a reader? After years of sweating over this I've come to a conclusion: no amount of marketing or promoting of material is going to make me a 'professional' author. It's up to the individuals who read books to reject or accept that premise. This harkens back to my days in theatre where the rule is: if there's no audience there ain't no show. I think of this work as a preview. If the audience likes it, perhaps it can be reproduced for the main stage.