Change Is Not Always Growth, But Growth

Here's The Thing, For Me At Least: This Is A Huge Genre Now. It Wasn't Always So. Not So Many Years Ago, It Wasn't So. There Is A Tremendous Diversity In Fantasy Today.

Also, There Are Authors And Publicists Using The Internet To Manipulate Opinion, Both Positively For A Work And Negatively Against The Competition. I Don't Do This And Can't Stomach It, Honestly.

How Many People Long For That "past, Simpler, And Better World," I Wonder, Without Ever Recognizing The Truth That Perhaps It Was They Who Were Simpler And Better, And Not The World About Them?

Selfishly, Perhaps, Catti-brie Had Determined That The Assassin Was Her Own Business. He Had Unnerved Her, Had Stripped Away Years Of Training And Discipline And Reduced Her To The Quivering Semblance Of A Frightened Child. But She Was A Young Woman Now, No More A Girl. She Had To Personally Respond To That Emotional Humiliation, Or The Scars From It Would Haunt Her To Her Grave, Forever Paralyzing Her Along Her Path To Discover Her True Potential In Life.

I Didn't And Don't Go To Internet For Any Business Purposes. The Book Sales For Me By This Point Are Way Beyond Any Influence I Might Have, Positively, Or Others Might Have, Negatively.