Coming Full Circle

Today is the last day of February is Fantasy month, and what a whirlwind of a month it was! I have loved reading your posts and seeing your answers to the hashtag game prompts and seeing the What If tag popping up all over the blogosphere! Thank you so much for helping to make this the best February is Fantasy Month yet! There is still time to join the link-up if you have written any posts that have anything to do with fantasy in the past month! And if you wanted to get to the short story challenge, but February got away from you, that's fine! If you ever do write a story using that prompt, I'd LOVE to read it, so just let me know or tag me or something when you write it!I'm feeling a little nostalgic today. Six years ago, almost to the day (February 29, to be exact), I became a real "published" author and released King's Warrior into the wild. The first book in the Minstrel's Song series, my first published novel, I had no idea what the future held for that series. I'm not a "big name" or "successful" author yet, not by a long shot. But you, dear Readers, have welcomed my stories into your homes and treasured them in your hearts. The kind reviews, emails, comments, fan art, and enthusiasm you have shared with me and displayed over my books leaves me at a true loss for words. Your encouragement and support throughout this journey so far has been overwhelming. I am convinced that nobody has better readers than I do! And so, there is something satisfying and pleasant about the symmetry of releasing Minstrel's Call to you today, giving you this final chapter, this final stanza on the same day I gave you the first one. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it!It's a little sad, leaving the world of the Minstrel. And, though I don't yet know what they are, there may be more stories in Tellurae Aquaous in the future...But it is also exciting, because now I get to dive in to a whole new world (haha, accidental Disney reference). And I am excited to see where it takes us, what stories it holds, what new characters are there to discover and befriend.Adventures await us, my friend. Shall we step through the door together onto a new path and see where it goes?