When QuBoS Road started I wasn’t even aware that it was a journey I started yet there it was already under my feet.
Often in life, we barely know we’re moving and then we arrive.
This series of novels started as many disconnected dots of short stories. Time went on and as stories multiplied and grew they connected in a coherent whole.
It wasn’t a simple feat to combine it into a whole that could be easily explained. Sure, there was an interlinking of stories, threads and themes but what is the reoccurring theme that could be found like a red thread in every story that passes through me to reality?
When books are edited there is a process of fine tweaking and adjusting where you’re trying to find ways to convey the story with clarity. In that process, even what is discarded and invisible to the reader, is a stepping stone, a foundation that allows us to reach the final version which is, hopefully, accessible and understandable.
We might think of those invisible foundational stones as a waste of time, as mistakes, but without them, we could never reach the next step, connect the dots into a line.
Before the title QuBoS Road came to be there were many iterations of which vestiges can be seen on the web of the world. In many of those trials, Road came as a firm pin that seemed to have sense to it.
Upon closer inspection, the roads and options they offer are a part of most of my stories, if not all. That’s easy since a road is any path that connects two dots with persistance that makes a mark making people pave it over with time to make the travels easier.
The road through space between stars was a thing that started the journey of drawing maps, ships, asterism and eventually illustrations adding to the growing lore.
But most importantly, a road is needed for us to connect, escape, relocate, change, return and find and those are stories I want to tell. How we, creatures who can think, can find their spot for a while under any kind of a sky.
Survival might be an imperative but freedom is what makes life liveable.