More Gwynned?

[Elkhound]

What parts of Gwynnedian history would you like KK to explore next?  There are certainly enough loose ends in all the novels for her to take up.  Or has she abandoned the Deryniverse for other projects?

[DesertRose]

At last report in chat, her next Deryni project is a novel tentatively titled The Road to Killingford, so I don't think she's abandoned Gwynedd by any means. 

However, discuss away anything anyone would like to see her explore, please!  Have fun! 

[Elkhound]

Aside from her own novels, I'd like to see more short story collections.  Mercedes Lackey does a Valdemar or Elemental Masters anthology just about every summer, and the late Marion Zimmer Bradley had her "Friends of Darkover" anthologies.

[Laurna]

KK has been working on a short story for an anthology about Tree cats. I do not know the series myself, but others here will know which books those are.

[drakensis]

David Weber's Honorverse setting, presumably.

[Elkhound]

Compiling & editing is, I guess, as much work as actually writing.  Still, I wish she'd take a cue from Marion & Misty.  There are so many loose ends in the books & the Codex that could use exploration, but aren't enough for a full-length novel.

[revanne]

But it is the loose-ends and the hints which are so much fun to speculate about.

[Jerusha]

Personally, I am hoping KK pursues The Road to Killingford.  There is so much potential there, so many characters to explore.  And KK does a good battle when she sets her mind to it! 

[revanne]

Personally, I am hoping KK pursues The Road to Killingford.  There is so much potential there, so many characters to explore.  And KK does a good battle when she sets her mind to it! 

Good.at killing people we've come to love, you mean? 

[Jerusha]

Good point - but some did survive; it does make for good drama, and makes the character memorable.  And she did off a fair number of bad guys, too.

[Laurna]

The Killingford battle, not only offed ten thousand men on each side of the battle, it decimated entire family lines. It does not come down to who died, but to who survived and how they managed it.

[drakensis]

There's the earlier war in 948 that would also be interesting to explore.

On the other hand, there would be a certain... fascination with exploring Festil I with his conquest of Gwynedd and expansion of it, helping to establish his younger brother as Prince of Kheldour and a potentially difficult relationship with his older brother in Beldour...

[derynifanatic64]

I would like to see a story about Daniel Draper's life after the coup when he was a young man.

[Elkhound]

I would like to see a story about Daniel Draper's life after the coup when he was a young man.

Especially the daughter who married a trader and had "posterity unknown." Where are her descendants?

And there is also the Haldane princess a couple of generations back from Kelson who vanished from the castle one night without a trace. 

[NavaWazr]

Once Killingford is done, I would love to see KK write short stories on loose ends or ideas that she has.  I would love to know what KK thinks is important to tie up or clarify, and what is on her mind. I would love to see more on the Airsid, the ancient altars in use, life in Torenth, life in the other 10 Kingdoms, "lost" relatives, Camber in the afterworld deciding how and when he should manifest himself, how the Servants came to be...