Book One of the FOUNDING Trilogy, The Battle for Peace, is approx. 55,000 words in length, was begun in the fall of 1995 and was completed in December of that same year. Book Two, Peace and Defiance is approx. 60,000 words in length, was begun in February 1996 and was completed in April. Book Three, Unified Confederacy is approx. 65,000 words in length, was begun in May 1996 and was completed in June. Book One of the PHOENIX Trilogy, Forsaken Empires, is approx. 50,000 words in length, was started in the summer of 1996 and was completed, after heavy revisions, in December 1997.

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