Begin Where We Are

by Knightley, Diana

  Thank you to Carla Martin for helping me come to a decision about contracting those ‘my’s. I agree. They’re outa here. I appreciate your notes so much.

  Thank you to Kristen Schoenmann De Haan for reading and loving the progression of the story, but also my writing. You’ve been with me a long time, I’m glad you’re still here.

  Thank you to Liana McGuinness for helping me locate the small village near the imagined, Talsworth castle, in Scotland and being so active in the group. I appreciate it.

  And thank you to Joshua Waier, for your advice on the big battle at the end, your choreography was right on and as I was writing it I just got so excited about it all. As Quentin put it, “…this is cool as fuck. A science fiction battle in a medieval castle.”

  Thank you to Kevin Dowdee for being my support, my guidance, and my inspiration for these stories. I appreciate you so much. And thank you for working with me on the battle scenes. That was awesome.

  Thank you to my kids, Ean, Gwynnie, Fiona, and Isobel, for listening to me go on and on about these characters and accepting them as real parts of our lives. I love you.

  About me, Diana Knightley

  I live in Los Angeles where we have a lot of apocalyptic tendencies that we overcome by wishful thinking. Also great beaches. I maintain a lot of people in a small house, too many pets, and a to-do list that is longer than it should be, because my main rule is: Art, play, fun, before housework. My kids say I am a cool mom because I try to be kind. I’m married to a guy who is like a water god, he surfs, he paddle boards, he built a boat. I’m a huge fan.

  I write about heroes and tragedies and magical whisperings and always forever happily ever afters. I love that scene where the two are desperate to be together but can’t because of war or apocalyptic-stuff or (scientifically sound!) time-jumping and he is begging the universe with a plead in his heart and she is distraught (yet still strong) and somehow, through kisses and steamy more and hope and heaps and piles of true love, they manage to come out on the other side.

  I like a man in a kilt, especially if he looks like a Hemsworth, doesn’t matter, Liam or Chris.

  My couples so far include Beckett and Luna (from the trilogy, Luna’s Story). Who battle their fear to find each other during an apocalypse of rising waters. And Magnus and Kaitlyn (from the series Kaitlyn and the Highlander). Who find themselves traveling through time and space to be together.

  I write under two pen names, this one here, Diana Knightley, and another one, H. D. Knightley, where I write books for Young Adults. (They are still romantic and fun and sometimes steamy though, because love is grand at any age.)

  DianaKnightley.com

  Diana@dianaknightley.com

  Also by H. D. Knightley (My YA pen name)

  Bright (Book One of The Estelle Series)

  Beyond (Book Two of The Estelle Series)

  Belief (Book Three of The Estelle Series)

  Fly; The Light Princess Retold

  Violet’s Mountain

  Sid and Teddy