As I write the last few chapters of the Sundered Crown Saga, I find myself looking back over a journey that began way back in 2013 – over a decade that feels both impossibly long and strangely short. When I wrote the first words of Heir to the Sundered Crown, I was younger, more unsure of myself, and living through a difficult period of my life. I didn’t know then what this story would become. I certainly didn’t know how much it would end up meaning to me.

When you begin a fantasy series, you...