Children of the Morning by Shanna Lauffey

I'm just really getting into this series! There's still some vagueness like what I mentioned in my first review but it's remarkably better and everything is more distinct.ġ. I read the first book in this series a little while ago and I enjoyed this one a little more. This will of course be joined by the third volume when it's released.Thank you to the author, Shanna Lauffey, for gifting me with a copy of Children of the Morning. The new cover design is going on hardback editions of the two volume set. Exploring this world further is undeniably appealing, especially as I can set them in different countries I've visited.

I'll probably write a few stories between bigger projects and let them accumulate. This could take a while, especially as I want to get my other two books re-written and back out there as well as a third one you don't know about yet. There's no time scale and I can write the stories about new characters in different parts of the world, making them whatever length I want as long as I produce enough of them to fill the page count. That's five novellas page count of short stories, any length. The idea of adding the bonus stories to the second volume was discussed, but to keep the two parts a closely similar size, the solution would be to write more short stories, enough to fill a third volume of that same size. How could paperback readers gain access to the bonus stories and wouldn't the set look even more awesome if there were three. Yay! I love it.Īs if that weren't enough, two questions came up. Funny thing, if you make the book a larger size, the page limit goes down!Įventually the designer admitted defeat and suggested putting the prettier covers on the existing two volume paperback set. Only the page count for all ten and bonus material exceeded what any of the printing sources would do. The cover designer saw an opportunity to make a full series paperback and designed the background you see on the two volume paperbacks above. This all got done and the result carried over to all written versions, which are all updated now. There was some crossover of British and American spellings that had to be standardized (Oops! My fault!) and also a discrepancy in curly or straight speech marks.

Children of the Morning by Shanna Lauffey