Pro Se Press chased me for something to launch their cheap-and-direct-to-Kindle line (based on the idea that's its better to sell 2000 copies at $1 than 200 copies at $6.99) and I thought this would be an easy conversion.

Wrong. It turned out to require a much more through redraft to de-D&D it, to alter some characters, and to correct some plot and pacing leaps. Then a number of new cast wanted in. Then I needed to restructure it so there were five stories in a series rather than one longer piece.

The end result converted a 28,000 short story into five linked short stories each with their own climax, coming in at about 80k words total. Since Pro Se also wanted more story after that I had to do a bit more world-mapping and backstory thinking in case I get tapped for another run of novellas.

How urgent another run is depends on (1) how well this run sells (I'm not a fan of e-book only product; I like to have a copy to put on my shelf), (2) how well "competing" product I've written sells in comparison, in particular the Mumphrey and Transdimensional Transport Company books (paper and electronic) coming out later this year, and (3) whether I can think of a good story.

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EDIT: Downloaded... Some holiday reading.

Hope it holds up to the previous nostaligia-flavoured version.