Rachel E. Carter

@lunayourethebest2015 Wow, I really appreciate your replying so soon with all the updates! (And sorry for not replying earlier) And OMG you won't be leaving this universe! And if I may say on behalf of all those fan girls out there, (LIKE ME) :)))), I just wanna say I am very grateful for your series, and your decision to continue them, of course!!!! And again, Ms Carter, please excuse my ridiculously-crazed-fangirlish-behaviour!!!! Thank you! 

@lunayourethebest2015 Oh, and here was an answer to Ian questions I posted on my FB a while back: #IAN QUESTION: "I just wanted to know what exactly happened at the end [of Last Stand] for Ian. Did he ever find love? Or did he really find peace in solitude?"
            
            MY ANSWER: Ian... so I deliberately left him vague. Not that there is anything wrong with peace in solitude, but he's just so sweet and romantic that I *did* want to pair him up with one of my fave characters to write (and they are such opposites it would have been hilarious). I considered a possible romantic storyline with him and her (hint: she's the queen ;P) that took place while Darren & Ryiah were away in that other country making amends. I was going to hint at it during Darren's epilogue but I couldn't figure out the right way to drop it in there (I needed more than a chapter to do that and didn't want to take away from D's spotlight)... So long story short, I may someday be writing a novella from Ian or Priscilla's POV showing how those 8 years went by while D/R were gone, and I might also someday write a spinoff series about Ry/Darren's daughter w/Ian/Priscilla's son as the love interest, and Ella/Alex's children :))))) I hope that answered some of your questions! I'm busy writing the prequel series (100 years before D/R were born) but after that I am definitely considering a companion/sequel series with the kids of D/R/I/P/A/E :) It might take me a couple years to write everything, but I'm definitely not done with that universe!

@lunayourethebest2015 this is the sweetest message, Dyen, thank you so much :))) Re: background on side characters, I don't know if I'd ever do more novellas except maybe a novella for the years D/R were away showing Ian and a potential romance w/Priscilla, however I am considering doing a spinoff series with Darren and Ry's daughter later on -where her love interest is Ian and Priscilla's daughter and her bff is Alex and Ella's kids -but that's a couple years down the road as I have to first finish the series I'm working on right now which is 100 years before Darren and Ry when all the kingdoms were at war and it has some new romances and stories I absolutely love, hopefully the first book in that series will be releasing by this summer (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34878788-untitled) <3

@aastha_x so you could understand how the transformation happened, and of course it's his love of the girl that saves him <3 I really love dramatic love stories, I guess you could say :D Anyway, I'm sure that hardly covers the question at all, as I could talk for hours about D&R. Again I am soooo glad you loved the books, and hopefully I'll sign in a city near you one day -if you'd like, you can message me a mailing address and I'd be happy to send you a couple signed bookmarks to put in your books :) Have a wonderful holiday season!!!

@aastha_x I can't even put into words how wonderful it was to log in and see this message today!!! Thank you so, so, SO much Ryiah's story is so near & dear to my heart and it's an honor to find anyone who loves the world of Jerar and Darren and Ryiah as much as I do!!! Re: additional spinoff stories, I'll never say never (currently working on a prequel 4-book series in same universe but 100 years before Ryiah was born when all the kingdoms were at war), but if I do write a spinoff of The Black Mage it would probably be there daughter Eve and her love interest and of course Alex and Ella's children. But I could write in that universe forever <3 As for how I got the idea of creating Ryiah, I was listening to music in middle school (yup, over a decade ago lol!) and there was a really powerful song that was super dramatic and I pictured a boy and a girl fighting to the death w/magic ... but other than that I didn't really know anything about them -like why they were fighting, who they were, etc. I was always obsessed with epic fantasy so I knew their story would take place in medieval times, and then when I finally sat down to write a couple years ago I knew I had to define my main character, and so I wrote the character I always wanted to read: a flawed heroine that struggled for every little victory she got, a girl that made mistakes but had a heart of gold, a girl that that could get jealous (even of the guy she loved) and have trust issues, and ultimately, a real girl that could end up in a twisted fairytale romance where the prince she loves ultimately becomes the villain and she has to choose between him and the kingdom. And Darren, well, I've always had a thing for dark love intersts, characters that struggle with a villainous side and a terrible backstory -the thing I noticed in all the books I grew up on was that the love interest usually started off a villain and ended a hero, I wanted to show the love interest before he became a villain...

@rachelecarterauthor could you send me a bookmark I would love one. I can privately send you my address

@BooHoot not often, but I will be doing another in San Mateo B&N Jan-Feb next year and I will be at the RT convention for a week in May (Atlanta)... and possibly one in Florida in July. I plan to do more, it just depends! I can also mail signed bookmarks for free to my readers because I know the chances of me doing a signing in most hometowns might not happen unless I happen to get lucky and have an event :)

Great

@BooHoot it's almost complete, I am just throwing a ballpark here but I would say by Oct 2016 at the very latest (possibly Sept!!!) >> I will have a more certain date by end of next month when the draft is complete:)