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<\/p>\nReview copy of\u00a0 DEEDS OF YOUTH arrived in the mail today for me to look at all the pages and find any flaws.\u00a0\u00a0 I did some, will do more tomorrow and Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 Today was gloating and checking the first two stories in it.\u00a0 I’ve had too much screen time lately, working on “Bank Transfer” so my eyes blur out quicker than usual.<\/p>\n
Book birthday, as I’m sure you all remember, is July 18 when it comes ALIVE!!! but it’s available for pre-order now.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile, this is the beautiful thing I got out of the padded envelope when R- had picked up the mail.<\/p>\n
Let’s start with a snippet from the first story, “Bad Day at Duke’s East”.\u00a0 Jamis Arcolin is our protagonist, 7 winters old.\u00a0 Those who’ve read the PALADIN’S LEGACY group of books know that Jamis is the son of the widow who married Duke Arcolin.\u00a0 After his first six years in the city, much of it in his grandparents’ house in a quiet corner of Verella, Jamis is finding life in the north amazing, exciting, wonderful.\u00a0 He’s living in a stone stronghold where Fox Company trains its recruits; though his mother insists on lessons almost every day, he does get out into the biggest open space he’s ever seen, and has a pony he’s learned to ride.\u00a0 He has a father again, and he’s trying hard to please him.\u00a0 He’s met gnomes living in the hills nearby, and on one astounding day he met a band of Horsefolk and saw (from a barely-safe distance) his father and some soldiers join with the Horsefolk warriers\u00a0 to destroy a band of iynisin.<\/p>\n
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A day free to play in the village meant a day spent running, chasing, climbing trees, gulping down a quick lunch, resting in the shade of Councilwoman Kolya’s apple orchard…nothing could be better.\u00a0 But…the day doesn’t go as planned.<\/p>\n
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