Author's Spotlight: shep
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Writing has been my main form of escape since a child. Before teaching, I earned a living on a little known national newspaper, before discovering I also had a calling for the classroom. The first embryonic scribbles for Song of the Elves emerged in 2000. I began writing the first trilogy as one continuous manuscript entitled The Summerlands, which I finally completed in the Winter of 2007. In the intervening years, I've been transforming this first draft into three distinct instalments of the saga. "A Shadow Falls" and "The King's Blades" have already seen the light of day. "Sins of the Father" will follow shortly. There will be a second trilogy to complete the saga, which I intend to commence work on in 2012. Book four is entitled "The Lost, The Lonely and the Damned". I have also written a series of short tales entitled The Wolves of Winter, set in Rhoderica before the elves invaded the continent. This is now available through lulu.com as a paperback and via amazon kindle as an e-book.. My second, 'Tale of Rhoderica' will be a fantasy version of the great John Ford western - The Searchers. Entitled, To the Ends of the Earth', the novel will be out for Spring 2016. I am also half-way through a manuscript for a science fiction novel, entitled The Mirror of His Soul. Time and health permitting, these will all eventually see the light of day.
Posts by shep:
- Jump on Board, January 28, 2009 in Song of the Elves
- Inspiration, January 23, 2009 in Song of the Elves
- Thanks and tribute, January 19, 2009 in Song of the Elves
- Beat the credit crunch, January 4, 2009 in Song of the Elves
- Seasons Greetings, December 30, 2008 in Song of the Elves
- The story continues…, December 15, 2008 in Song of the Elves
- Chapters 7 to 9 of A Shadow Falls, December 1, 2008 in Song of the Elves
- A Shadow Falls part Two, November 22, 2008 in Song of the Elves
- Free Book, November 15, 2008 in Song of the Elves
- The Lakes – an inspiration, November 1, 2008 in Song of the Elves


