concerning
The Future of Hagenspan
The
seeds of Roarke's Wisdom were planted years before they bore any fruit.
I wrote the first two or three paragraphs about a decade
before I proceeded with the rest of the first chapter;
I toyed with the story over and over again in my mind
before I ever attempted writing it in earnest.
Once
begun, though, I soon realized the myth could be
greatly expanded upon if I was motivated enough.
When I first began considering "The Hagenspan Chronicles"
instead of merely the one novel Roarke's Wisdom,
I thought the series might conceivably produce five novels in all:
a long book called Roarke's Wisdom
a short book called Kenyan's Lamp
a long book called Owan's Regret
a short book called Sarbo's Run
a long book called Alissa's Redemption
After
the short stories began getting published by Amazon.com, I began to consider
an additional collection called The Found Tales of Hagenspan. I have
also, from time to time,
debated the merits of crafting an origin story entitled Hagen's Span.
As
I enter my fiftieth year, though, health concerns are beginning to slow me
down.
My current hope is to finish Owan's Regret if I can, and fill in some of
the blanks in The Found Tales.
If I am permitted to go beyond that, I will be pleased. If not ... I will be
pleased enough.
For
the sake of conjecture, though, here is a chronology of what may or may not
follow:
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Book Eight |
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(original note, circa 2008) I
have begun writing this, and hope to have it completed sometime in 2010. It
will deal with the rise and fall of kings and heroes in the war against the
northlands. |
(update,
2018) It actually took me much longer to write this than I had anticipated; I didn't finish it until 2016. |
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Book Nine |
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(original
note, circa 2008) Working
title for this one is something like Peace of a Kind. It will deal
with the aftermath of King Herm's war against the northlands, and what
becomes of our heroes. |
(update,
2018) I
did indeed title this book Peace of a
Kind. It will be available in
August 2018. |
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(original
note, circa 2008) Book Ten Readers
of Kenyan's Lamp will remember Black Sarbo; I had thought that I might
give him his own tale, kind of a swashbuckling, seafaring adventure. Now it
seems a little like overkill; maybe it would be better to explore the years
in between Kenyan's Lamp and Roarke's Wisdom instead; there's a
lot of potential there. |
(update,
2018) Book Ten I abandoned the idea of writing a whole book about Black Sarbo, choosing instead to answer the question I posed about Hagenspan's existence in our world as posed in the 2008 note on Alissa's Redemption below left. I'll be starting this one in late 2018 if God gives me the strength to write it. |
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Books Eleven through Fourteen? (original
note, circa 2008) I
have no idea if I could pull this off ... but I thought it would be a good
idea to explain why--since Hagenspan is a part of our own world--it's gone
today. Plus, with perhaps a last four-book cycle, there would be plenty of
room to develop more characters and scenarios that I would otherwise regret
missing out on. Timeline of the story would be immediately after Owan's
Regret. (update,
2018) At this point, it seems unlikely that another four-book cycle will be written. We'll see. |
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The Found Tales of Hagenspan Here
is my proposed Table of Contents for the short stories, poems, and other
stuff to be included. You may be able to anticipate some of the
possibilities, and there are links to the pieces which have already been
completed: The Legend of Hagen and the
Bear |
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Book Fifteen? If there's any of me left, I might just write about Hagenspan's discovery and exploration. |
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The Found Tales of Hagenspan Who knows? |
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