Sword of the Archon has now been completely restructured and revised (04/13/2015). This 4th edition has much more action, fewer point of view characters, and fewer location changes. The plot is linear, and less dense.

In its original form, many readers found the first 80 or so pages too dense: there were a lot of point of view characters, lots of place names, and there are some difficulties getting a geographical bearing. Also, the introduction, with Shader as a child, which was meant to make things simpler, actually seems to have had the opposite effect.

So, the childhood scenes at the beginning have gone, along with a number of points of view.

My hope is this will make the series much more accessible to a wider range of readers.

I felt it was time to make the changes, especially because book 4, The Archon's Assassin, has exceeded my expectations. It would be a shame if readers don't make it that far due to the slow, difficult opening in book 1.

The Audible version will also be updated very soon, although it generally takes Audible about 6 weeks to set the modified files to live.

If anyone has bought the ebook version or the Audible version, you will be able to download the new edition for free.