The beginning of The Colour of Her Magic starts with hope. Erin, a humble chicken farmer, is ready to take on the impossible and free the Princess of Undersunne from the cruel reign of the High Sorcerer. But nothing is what it seems.
I had to fix a fight scene and it has taken me months to figure out just exactly why it wasn’t working.
I've had these characters hanging around for a while now, but each time I tried to write them they always petered out... It was never right. Alison and Celia Griffin fought back each time I tried to put them into a book. They didn't like what I had in store for them, and each time the ideas just went slowly downhill and I stopped writing. I watch a lot of renovation programs and thought one day - why not renovate a magic kingdom? The very next morning this first chapter wrote itself, and this time it feels right. Check out...