How a college assignment became a 10-year journey to publication. Every story begins somewhere — sometimes in a moment of inspiration, sometimes in a quiet spark you don’t recognize as important until much later. For The Burden of Honor, that spark came from an elective college course on high fantasy analysis. One of our assignments required creating a short story set in an original world. At the time, I had no idea that simple assignment would eventually grow into the foundation of an entire series. Today, TBH bears almost no resemblance to that early work… but the encouragement from my…
