W hen I first wrote Charmed Role Reversal, the story was less than one quarter of its present size. I had not expected it to grow but over time, I not only made revisions to enhance the original story but continually added new episodes to it.

Charmed 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. As you begin reading Charmed Role Reversal, think back and remember how Charmed was during its first two years.

To enhance the sense of reality of Charmed Role Reversal, as well as to write it in a professional manner, most of its details (ancestral, agencies, biographical, botanical, 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 are fully researched, accurate and true.

I wanted to write Charmed 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".

Charmed 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 the real world had been changed and Charmed had become part of it. That Charmed was now as real as everything else in 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.

Charmed Role Reversal is set in the spring of 2000, after the completion of Charmed's second season. It weaves reality seamlessly with fantasy in a "season" of over forty episodes (chapters) - the printed version runs over one thousand pages. Just as on Charmed, the episodes have their own individual teasers preceding the opening credits. And though all but two of the episodes are essentially self-contained (the exception being a single two-parter), they are, just as on Charmed, in a logical progression, each episode built upon the prior ones, and all linked together by two "season" story-arcs.

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.

Charmed 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.

Charmed Role Reversal is Charmed "outside of the box".