I began writing Role Reversal in the summer of 2000. The original story, about one-quarter of its present size, was written over the course of the ensuing fifteen months, with revisions made and new episodes added continually since then. Role Reversal is based upon Charmed as it was during its first two seasons and reflects nothing (well, almost nothing) that happened on the show thereafter. So before you begin reading Role Reversal, think back and picture in your mind how Charmed was back then. Or watch a few of those Season 1 and Season 2 episodes again, put yourself in the right mood and frame of mind, and remind yourself of the Charmed Ones' lives during those first two years.

To enhance the believability and sense of reality of Role Reversal, as well as to write it in a professional manner, most of its details (ancestral, biographical, chemical, commercials, dance, equestrian, geographical, historical, military, nautical, planes, songs and singers, sports, trains and trolleys et al), foreign languages, styles of speech, real people (names, facts and relationships), shops, streets, locations and places were fully researched and are accurate.

I wanted to write Role Reversal to be within the established bounds of Charmed's characters. But I also wanted to write something that was different, something that was innovative. Something that was "outside of the box".

Role Reversal adheres to the characters' traits, emotions and feelings, their moral attitudes, their thinking and style of speaking, and above all, their personalities, just as they are portrayed on Charmed. But it goes in a direction that the show didn't - that the show couldn't - go in.

To accept the reality of Charmed as we watch its episodes, we have to suspend disbelief.
But...what if we didn't have to suspend it? What if we took it all one step further?

What if you suddenly found that Charmed wasn't just a TV show's reality...but that Charmed was reality. That Charmed had become part of the real world. Your real world.

What if you suddenly found that the Halliwells and everything that touched them were part of the real world you live in...were part of your life. In fact...it was your life.

Role Reversal is set in the spring of 2000, after the completion of Charmed's second season. It weaves reality seamlessly with fantasy in an arc of over thirty episodes, almost all with their own individual teasers, linked together by two underlying episodic arc themes. And when you see the Charmed overhead after the teaser, let the theme song start to play in your mind, just as it really plays with that overhead on Charmed, after each show's opening teaser.

When you look at something you know from a different angle than you're accustomed to, your perspective changes. It's still the same thing you've seen many times and that you know quite well. Yet, because of the changed perspective, it seems different.

Role Reversal changes your perspective of Charmed. It is the same, familiar Charmed that you know. But at the same time, it is very different.

Role Reversal is Charmed "outside of the box".