Song of the Elves

Epic fantasy novels and short stories by David Charles Shepherd

Crawling to a conclusion

| February 28, 2010

It may sound strange, but some of my clearest visions for The Song of the Elves and The Wolves of Winter come when I’m putting in the lengths in the local pool.  There’s something about the isolation of swimming that gives one time to think through ideas and to iron out kinks in a story [...]

Introducing Beddor

| February 20, 2010

I’m in the process of writing the final action sequence of The Wolves of Winter Part Two.  It’s an exciting moment for me as new recruit to the Wolves Beddor, gets to fire his first shots in anger. Beddor is an army veteran, discharged on ill-health grounds folowing the sacking of Castle Bronin during W.O.W. [...]

Inspirations by osmosis

| February 12, 2010

I’m just putting the finishing touches to The Wolves of Winter Part Two.  The final three scenes should be in the bag by the end of this week and then its just a mattter of typing up the story and editing.  All things being equal, this next installment of the adventures of Rulnik, Yanuk and [...]

A Strange Brew

| February 5, 2010

Much of the action of the Wolves of Winter Part Two takes place in the north west fishing port of Heliop.  As I was putting together a scene this week I found myself thinking there was something very familiar about the frontier town I had created. Its funny how subconsciously, influences from your life creep [...]