There’s the problem, too, that it’s not just the style of writing that has evolved along the way. There is the choice of what elements of the story to highlight and what to down-pedal. The writer I am today would write a different book. I was quite rebellious about this, and almost yanked the book from the schedule.
That is, I was quite rebellious until I recognized something quite startling (to me) about my work. I knew that healers and healing were a theme I revisited often, because I had noticed things about medicine and people healing, or not healing, that appear in the Nuala books, the Alfreda books, and in an unpublished fantasy series currently called Talismindd.
What I had not yet consciously noticed was that my published work also contains a lot about betrayal, forgiveness and second chances. The works I am currently laying out also contain a lot about betrayal, forgiveness, healing, and second chances.
There is a line in a famous poem about returning to where we started and recognizing the place for the first time. I was so certain I no longer recognized the person who wrote Fire Sanctuary. In truth, she has been with me all along.
Maybe the mystics are correct, and we arrive in this world with everything we need to address what we are here to do. Twenty-five years after this book first appeared, I look back on the child who wrote it and wonder that she could write it. I think on all that I have learned since about betrayal, forgiveness, healing, and second chances. And I realize that I don’t need to change more than a few sentences in Fire Sanctuary. It says what I wanted to say back then, a science fiction novel containing so many of the things that I loved about science fiction.
The forthcoming stories will talk about new things that I’ve learned, and still hope to learn ... with grace notes about betrayal, forgiveness, healing and second chances.
Current challenges would have made this e-book launch infinitely more difficult without the expert help of Vonda N. McIntyre, P. G. Nagle, Amy Sterling Casil, Jennifer Stevenson and Don Dixon. I offer my heartfelt thanks for their generosity with their time and expertise.
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
February 26, 2011
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Fire Sanctuary
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Book View Café
29 March 2011
Copyright © 1986, 2011 Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
ISBN: 9781611380569
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Cover art by Don Dixon
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This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people,or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons,living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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