-
What’s the Point of a Magic Sword?
Answer – The end you stick them with…. From Sting to Stormbringer, Gram to the Sword of Gryffindor, magical swords have always played a part in Fantasy stories and myths. Darkness Rising is no different as Bex of Samak is…
-
Welcome to my World(s).
or how and why…. I can’t remember the exact date when I started writing the Maingard Chronicles, but it was sometime in 2012 when I first put digital letter on digital page. But Bex’s story started years before then. She…
-
‘The Darkness Rising’ launch getting closer.
Launch date is getting closer – and as this is not only Book 1 of the Maingard Chronicles, but Book 1 of my career, I am ‘Tom Cruise jump up and down on Oprah’s sofa’ kind of excited. But also…
-
The Extinction Trials
S. M. Wilson Usborne Publishing 2018 I was a little perturbed when I discovered the local bookclub that I had just joined had chosen a YA novel as its first book. After all, it has been nigh on 35 years…
-
A Passing…
“Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.” Mother died today. So starts Albert Camus’s “L’Etranger“, and also this post. Except it wasn’t today but 24th November 2020, and this is only the second time since that I’ve acknowledged it. I hadn’t even acknowledged…
-
World-building Maingard
A look at creating the world of Maingard All authors need to breathe life into their characters, build the narrative and piece together the plot into (hopefully) something coherent and exciting. At some point though, that author needs to world…
-
The 13 Treasures of Britain
(Reprinted from theelvenscroll – originally from May 2020) The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain are a very interesting set of magical items written down in late medieval Welsh literature. Interesting, in that only one is a weapon, whilst…
-
Scrub up for surgery!
The Demons Within is in the submissions stage which, to a new writer, seems to be a long, labourious process. A process for someone with some patience. So far I have sent about a dozen but it can take up…