Theonomachy! The Battle of the Gods Timothy Conner and Hecate, the Goddess of Magic, have had triplets. Tridyma in Greek. The children of the Witch and the Sorcerer have inherited their parents' powers. When the children learn how to combine their powers, they become terrifying. More powerful even than Hecate, they are the most powerful magic users anywhere. Unbeknownst to them, however, Phobos, the God of Fear, and Eris, the Goddess of Discord, have also had triplets. A Battle of the Gods is brewing that will set triplets against triplets in a titanic struggle. The Earth will tremble at the magnitude of the power being wielded. But what of the triplets? Mere children, they suffer from the manipulations of the adults they trust. Can it ever be made right? THE STUNNING SEQUEL TO HECATE . INTERVIEW WITH RICH WEYAND This is the sequel to "Hecate" so it's hard fantasy as well? Yes. It picks up where "Hecate" left off, with the same characters. Tridyma is "triplets" in Greek? Yes, this is the story of the triplets Hecate and Timothy Conner had at the end of "Hecate." Hecate has more magic power than any of the other gods and goddesses, and Conner has equal power from her. The triplets inherit that power from both sides. Wow. And they learn to combine their power? Yes. That's normally not possible, or a group of three gods would have been able to overthrow Zeus centuries or millennia ago. But every individual's magic sort of works on a different wavelength. They don't add up. But the triplets have been raised together, have spent 24 hours a day together their whole lives, and their magic is in sync. So the triplets are more powerful than Hecate? Yes, even as children, and thereupon hangs the tale. The war faction of the family is causing trouble again? Yes, Apollo's war faction didn't take his defeat in "Hecate" to heart. They want to unseat Zeus, who's an independent and doesn't always go their way. They think triplets may be able to join powers, so Eris and Phobos have triplets as well. They can also combine their powers. There's two sets of triplets? Yes, and the whole thing moves inexorably to war between Apollo's faction and Zeus' supporters, with one set of triplets on either side. The Battle of the Gods. Yes. Theonomachy in Greek. But "Tridyma" doesn't end with the battle. Both sets of triplets, who despite their powers are mere children, are scarred from the battle and the effect such high-level magic use has on them. Hecate tries to make things right, to repair both sets of triplets, her own and Eris'. The cover shows Hecate's triplets? Yes. The cover is another stunning product of Luca Oleastri and Paola Giari of Rotwang Studios. How did this book write? It took forty days to write "Tridyma." The first twenty days it was about 1500 words per day, which is slow for me. There was a lot of research, in geography and history, to set it up. Once that was done, it wrote at about 2500 words per day through the end. Are the Andersons back? Yes. I like to include 'outside' characters in my fiction, to give the reader a view from outside the action. As a reader, the fictional setup becomes so real that extraordinary things can seem normal. Harold and Margaret Anderson are outside the family of the gods and goddesses, and their point of view is important for the reader to stay tuned in to how extraordinary Hecate, Conner, and the kids really are. What's next for you? "Tridyma" ends the Pantheon series, at least for now. I don't have any story percolating there. The next books I write will be a four-book series back in hard science fiction. What's that going to be about? I have no clue.