Well, okay, but if The White Dragon is the second book of the series, why it is labeled “Part One” on the cover?
In fact (brace yourself), In Fire Forged was the second book of the series. But it turned out to be so long a novel that, after much back-and-forthing on the subject, Tor decided at the last minute that it couldn’t publish IFF as one book. So I had about four days to split the 1,743-page manuscript into two books. I said we had to label them “Part One” and “Part Two” of the same story, because The White Dragon doesn’t have an ending and The Destroyer Goddess doesn’t have a beginning. If you picked up DG first, you would feel—with good reason!—that you had walked in on the second reel of a film and couldn’t figure out what was going on. If this series is ever repackaged, obviously I’ll ask the publisher to make some changes to the way all the books are titled, to make things clearer than they are now…
