He Said, he said, Volume 1

Prologue

HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED…

Let me start by saying if I was good at math, I probably would have been a construction engineer. That always sounded really interesting.

In school, my teachers would always say, “but you really seemed to have a grasp of the material in the homework”.

That’s because my sister Melissa did it.

Me and math parted ways when I was in the third grade, with multiplication and division, and it was never the same after that.

Also, there was tracking in schools, a hundred years ago when I went, and because of math, I didn’t get to do all the fun things my sister did in high school in her AP English classes.

Later, in college, I barely made it out, because I needed one more math credit…

and it was Geometry or Statistics. Can you imagine?

That’s like the devil or the deep blue sea?

Neither option was great. And really, Geometry, are you kidding?

I nearly died laughing. I got a C- in statistics and graduated.

I thought, once I was out, that this would be the final curtain for me and math. I was so na?ve then.

When you’re a writer, there’s this fun thing called “plot math”.

Over the years, many of my editors have said, “wait, what?” And so, because of that, when I was ready to publish my newsletter ficlets, I had to examine what I had done with the ages of Sam, Jory, Kola and Hannah as well as all the people in their orbit.

In figuring out all their birthdays—which my husband was horrified I didn’t know when he was creating a spreadsheet—I figured out where it all went completely off the rails.

And, yes, of course, I knew birthdays…just not the attached year that went with it.

Now, as you read these, know that all ages are correct within these volumes.

It took some time, but I’ve got it. Math is static, did you all know?

So once I figured it out, I never have to do it again.

I finally found something I like about it.

When I republish the books in the A Matter of Time series, there will be adjustments there that I’m excited about, but know, now, that my entire timeline is finally, mathematically, correct. It only took seventeen years. Just don’t get crazy and look at ALL my books. My goodness…