You've met the first of our books: The Apathetic Avengers, and you're probably wondering why it's subtitled "The Faction Stories" and why we're calling the blog "Faction: The Downing City Chronicles"-- Well, lucky for you by the end of the third book, you'll understand. I don't want to put too many spoilers out there just yet, but suffice to say our heroes are dynamic.
You're thinking: "Third book. Isn't that the end of the story?"
No, my dear readers, is it not. It is merely the end of their summer. Our first section in this story covers only the formation of the Apathetic Avengers, their summer before Junior Year and part of the school year.
Don't sweat this though. The way we've set this up is: each volume is actually a collection of chronological short stories. If you check out The Timeline Page over there ~~> you'll see we have a guide of what's happening when. As we finish each division of our stories, we'll update with newest and where they fall and what volume there in.
Each of our Parts -- Year One- Part 1 and 2, Year Two- Part 1 and 2 -- will have no less than 2 volumes and no more than 4 (...we hope).
What we have up right now is Year One- Part 1. We're finalizing Year One- Part 2 as we speak. We've also got enough writing and story arcs that we're probably going to offer up a "Lost Stories Volume" at the end of Year One- Part 2.
Why short stories?
Because we like our characters. We like to play with them, and mess around with them, and put them in awkward situations to tease out their characters and quirks and foibles. We also have WAY too much fun with Rachel and Edgar interacting. We think there are enough situations to put them individually that we would lose half, or better, of the really fun stuff -- the danger, the personal challenges, their interactions, the chance to develop -- if we put them in a single novel. Or even in two.
So you get short stories. Makes it easier to put the book down and go to bed, too. Most of them have distinct resolutions to the immediate story even as we work on moving our story arc and characters forward. You won't go to bed wondering if Rachel is actually going to turn Celeste into a toad.
At least, in that story.
So, read and enjoy.
And please-- Review us!
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