Way back when I first wrote Summer Sorcery (in that no-one-else-gets-to-see-ever first draft) I imagined a backstory scene with Faltha and Malachite. There’s a nod to it on p125, but the book didn’t need derailed with the plot-irrelevant personal history between two important but ultimately secondary characters. However what made it into the book plantedContinue reading “Faltha’s Celebration”
Category Archives: Backstory
Wizard and the Imp Location #1 — The Tower
This month we’ll take a look at the site that was my inspiration for the Tower of Sorcery. Calais Muir Wood is a small patch of woodland about (34 hectares, which apparently counts as quite big these days) on the eastern edge of Dunfermline. It’s been something of a lifeline over the last 18 monthsContinue reading “Wizard and the Imp Location #1 — The Tower”
Cauldron’s Web
I woke up today to a garden full of dew-glistening webs, which for me is a good start to any day. I keep trying (pathetically, really) to get a decent photo of one. Whatever skills or talents required to succeed at that still elude me, but I do enjoy trying. Spiders have fascinated me forContinue reading “Cauldron’s Web”
Malachite
Malachite – Back story work Beginnings The ancient sorcerer stood up and stretched his aching back. It had been a long time indeed since he had wrought a potion as complex as this. Indeed, a long time since this potion had been attempted by anyone, and rightly so, but necessity drove him to this desperateContinue reading “Malachite”
Brandon Lim 