Interim Errantry Books in Order

Interim Errantry is where Diane Duane lets the Young Wizards world breathe between the huge mainline novels. These books and collections sit in the gaps, showing side adventures, seasonal stories, and first trials that add texture to the bigger series.

That makes them especially rewarding once you already know the main cast.

One part of this material is the collection Interim Errantry, which includes Not On My Patch, How Lovely Are Thy Branches, and Lifeboats. Those pieces range from neighborhood-scale Halloween chaos to holiday strangeness to a much larger rescue mission involving wizards from all over Earth. Together they show how flexible the setting can be.

The other important branch is Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal, which turns toward first trials. In Young Wizards, an Ordeal is the dangerous test that marks a wizard's beginning, and these stories let Duane focus on characters who are not always at center stage in the main books. That gives the universe more depth and makes wizardry feel like a real calling shared by many different kinds of people and beings.

So this page is not the place to start the whole saga from scratch. It is the place to go once you already care about the world and want more of it. The rewards are in tone, side roads, and the extra perspective these stories bring.

Think of it as the connective tissue that turns a good series into a fuller one.