1. Galadriel says:

    I want to read this sometime…

  2. Sharon Hinck says:

    Hi, Galadriel,
    I hope you will someday! 🙂

  3. Kaci says:

    I’m really considering buying the expanded edition (I’ve read the other). So glad this is back in print. 0=)
     
    Galadriel: Tristan rocks. I’d say Kieran rocks, but it’d go to his head.  He’s that way.

  4. Sharon Hinck says:

    Kaci – LOL! You are SO RIGHT about Kieran. Did you know he was only supposed to be a very MINOR character to add a little abrasive energy when he showed up? …but he started taking over and demanded his own book – which is how Restorer’s Son came to be. And he’s featured prominently in the still-in-progress book 4. He just seems to get his way.
    I hope you’ll enjoy the read-along devotional guide in the new edition…it was a special project for me to develop that. And the bonus scenes are pure fun – exploring what other characters were experiencing in key scenes.

    • Kaci says:

      Haha! You’d never know, though. I can’t imagine it without him – I’m admittedly partial to the guy (again, don’t tell him).  Looking forward to both, Sharon.

    • Eldra says:

      Kieran? A minor character? *blows raspberry* Yeah, right. Even when he doesn’t want to be the center of attention, he still somehow manages to become exactly that. And now I can’t wait to read book 4!!!!

  5. Sharon, I’m so glad there will be a book 4. I love this series.

    The thing with Kieran, adding a character who will create abrasive energy means that he can’t go quietly into the night — not if you are to write him true to the personality you gave him. I think it’s a wonderful example of Tolkien’s sub-creation. You don’t paint the sun green without showing how a green sun affects the world, and you don’t add a Kieran into the midst of the People of the Verses without him affecting them. And in turn, having them affect him! 😉

     

    Becky

    • Sharon Hinck says:

      THanks, Becky!
      I’m excited to resume work on it after my Restorer’s Journey-Expanded Edition is turned in this month. 🙂
      What you said about sub-creation reminds me of how much difficulty I created for myself as an author in my story-world. Since the world of the clans had a constant over-cast sky, they never saw a sun, moon, or stars….so they never invented sundials…so their concepts of time measurement are different. No written language – all sorts of other complications. Energy – not based on fire/flame – more challenges. Not a traditional fantasy setting of a pseudo-medieval world but one with some technologies, but not others – more problems. Not to mention all the metaphors I couldn’t use in narrative thought or dialogue for the characters from that world – since those images didn’t fit their world. I caught myself describing a “fire in my heart” or a sword flashing like a starry sky – and then have to stop myself and delete and refigure. 🙂

      • Kaci says:

        For what it’s worth, those types of things really made the storyworld fascinating.  It’s kinda funny, these little things we work ourselves into.  One thing fantasy’s really taught me is to not rely on colloquialisms or ‘Christianese.’

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