David Shepherd | October 31, 2011
Sorry for the delay in transmission – coming from the red half of Manchester it’s taken me more than a week to get over the thrashing administered by our ‘noisy neighbours’. However, normal business is now resumed… One chapter to go on the final edit of Sins of the Father, and I’m getting a major [...]
David Shepherd | October 17, 2011
Terry Pratchett once wrote that if you are attempting to write fantasy, one of the most important things to do is to make sure that you do not just read fantasy as your literary diet. The theory goes that no matter how fantastical your world, the laws that govern all elements of that world and [...]
David Shepherd | October 10, 2011
Like the unfortunate objects that have strayed too close to a dying star, the protagonists of Sins of the Father find themselves inexorably pulled to the black hole that is the arrow. Book One of Song of the Elves took you to a scene in the Horseshoe pass – a soldier lying wounded in the [...]
David Shepherd | October 4, 2011
As the climax to book three, Sins of the Father builds, I am reminded of how central to the plot are the relationships between fathers and sons. Kirik will find his faith in his father tested to the limit; Prince Nemar and Prince Warseratt are so divided in their view of their father’s style of [...]
