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:
- Back from Beyond…, April 15, 2013 in Song of the Elves
- End of Year review, December 12, 2012 in Song of the Elves
- Inspired by the Watchman, November 5, 2012 in Song of the Elves
- Still Here…, October 1, 2012 in Song of the Elves
- Mountains and Monsters, August 11, 2012 in Song of the Elves
- Summer News, July 12, 2012 in Song of the Elves
- Slow Day at the Office, May 29, 2012 in Song of the Elves
- What’s Shep up to now?, May 21, 2012 in Song of the Elves
- ‘Sins of the Father’ finished, April 26, 2012 in Song of the Elves
- Super-slick ‘Sins’ almost ready…, April 7, 2012 in Sins of the Father&Song of the Elves


