Meet Bettina Marrow
Meet Bett One of my goals in writing Bett was to give Sedgewick's ensemble a member who chose to join this town. Most of the others you meet in town are locals, born to Sedgewick. Bett grew up somewhe...
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Meet Nan Pell
Meet Nan Pell Nan runs a plant cuttings stall in the Sedgewick marketplace. Fiona gave her all of the originals, including the cardinal flower. Nan will tell this to anyone who stands still long enoug...
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Meet the Water Horse
Meet the Water Horse I wrote a kelpie into my story to guard the crossing to Fiona's home. For the longest time, in my notes, he was just "the kelpie." He was bound and dangerous, but not much else. W...
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Meet Mara Quill
Meet Mara Quill Mara runs the dock because her father handed it down to her. The math was as simple as five daughters and no sons. Turns out Mara was the one built for the work, temperament and all. S...
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Meet Corwin Reed
Meet Corwin Reed The fishing pole forgotten at his side, he sits on the dock more often than not, staring sightlessly. Corwin doesn't see the water anymore, only the sharp, nebulous shape of his grief...
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Meet the Censor
My goal when writing the Accord characters is to make them conceptually and morally complicated. Voss, from Where the Watermint Grows, believed in what he was doing. The Censor needed to believe in th...
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Why the River Runs Backward
The Auren River has been running the wrong direction for eight days. The ferry is grounded, and the mill is stopped. Nobody in town can explain it. A naiad named Rue has kept the pool above the weir f...
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