The headline says it all: the Special Edition of A Hero's Journey (Tales of the Scarlet Knight #1) is now available in ebook on Amazon. I could have done it sooner, but I reread the other seven books in paperback first.
The Special Edition includes nearly 50,000 words previously cut. It also includes a new introduction by me about how the book came together from its humble origins as part of The Leading Men back in 2002. Now you can read it the way it was meant to be read!
While rereading it, it occurred to me that since the series ended in 2010, if it followed along in real time, Emma would be 40 on Halloween. Emma's natural daughter Louise would then be 12 and her adopted daughter from another dimension Joanna would be 18. Since Louise and Joanna are both geniuses like Emma, Louise would probably be in high school and Joanna would be probably graduating college, probably with a doctorate in something. Joanna has psychic abilities that allow her to contact versions of her father in other realities and to travel to other worlds; those abilities would probably have gotten even stronger over 10 years. Emma's boyfriend (husband?) Jim Rizzard--formerly the Sewer Rat--would be a couple of years older than Emma. Over ten years he'd have probably stopped living with rats in the sewers to live on the surface with Emma and Louise, their daughter. Maybe they'd have more kids.
Meanwhile her best friend Becky would be 41 and her boyfriend (husband maybe) Dan Dreyfus would be a few years older than that. Becky couldn't have kids, but she did have eggs frozen so maybe a surrogate (Emma?) would have given them a kid or two.
Emma's friends the former witch Agnes Chiostro and her wife Akako moved to the dimension where Joanna came from. They'd both be in their 30s by now. Akako was a tattoo artist and Agnes a college student when they came into that dimension. I'm not sure what Agnes would get a degree in since all she knew about before was magic and sewing. Their daughter Renee would be 11 and perhaps her strange magic abilities would begin showing.
In another dimension, Emma's friend Tim Cooper would be in his 30s too and for the last 10 years has been fighting crime in his sort of Iron Man-like suit. His loyal sidekick is the genius Renee Kim, who would be 21 and probably a billionaire tech company person like Elon Musk. By then maybe Tim would finally win the heart of Detective Sylvia Joubert, who would also be in her 30s.
Emma's friends Amanda Murdoch and Megan Putnam would be in their 30s too. Amanda would probably be a workaholic detective in the mold of her mentor, Lottie Donovan (who died in book 7) while Megan would probably be the partner in an architectural firm.
And then there's time traveler Marie Marsh who could show up at almost any age. I haven't done much with her since book 2 (since she died in the original version but lived in the revised version) so maybe it'd be time to bring her back for some reason.
And Emma and Jim's faithful companion Pepe the rat would have long since died, though after 10 years he would have many, many generations of offspring.
So to do a sequel after all this time, there would be a lot to take into consideration. I'm just saying.
2 comments:
Good call to go with the comic book art cover.
I think it's a really good idea to have a special edition. And I agree, the cover is great!
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