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Welcome to It's Raining Books. Why do you write in your genre? What draws you to it?
The genre I write in is fantasy. I just think you can be so imaginative and free, creating your own world with its own unique life forms and characters. Anything goes, and nobody can tell you you’re wrong! It’s your world, you are the creator, and you can have fun with it.
What research is required?
The level of research depends on what you are writing. This trilogy of which Shadowslayers is the second novel and it is a metaphysical science-fantasy journey that weaves together ancient Vedic wisdom, modern scientific speculation. It’s a deep psychological and spiritual inquiry and at its heart it asks what is consciousness? Can we alter fate? And what does it mean to be whole in a fragmented universe? The two protagonists, Ignatius and Indigo are struggling to come to terms with the events of the first novel (Timeslayers) when they are unwillingly thrust into another, and much darker, cosmic adventure. Their relationship with each other may be due to affection, but it may also be out of necessity because they are the only two humans who have shared this experience.
Name one thing you learned from your hero/heroine
I guess I have learned that the two protagonists are really aspects of myself. They both represent me! This is something I hadn’t realized at first. They have different personalities, Ignatius often symbolizes reason, tradition, or structured inquiry, and Indigo represents intuition, inner knowing, and spiritual receptivity. When I am writing their dialogue, it flows easily in my head. So, I think they are both me!
Do you have any odd or interesting writing quirks, habits or superstitions?
I’m not sure how many other writers work like this, if any, but sometimes I have a scene in my head that is so detailed and exciting I must use it. I might have no idea where it will fit into my novel, but I just think it’s such a good idea it must be used so I write it, add more detail, edit it, then will work and weave it into the plot somewhere.
Are you a plotter or pantser?
I think I Am both. I will often be a pantser. I like to get what’s in my head down on paper or into the laptop. But then to develop an idea, particularly if it is complex I will scribble charts and tables in a notebook or create a spreadsheet on the laptop. I can then see all the links throughout a long plot and can move things around and add in to improve them.
Look to your right – what’s sitting there?
Nobody. Writing is a solitary craft! When I can I like to work in my study surrounded by my inspiration, science books, fantasy books, graphic novels and art books. However, I can work virtually anywhere because I do a lot of my writing in a notebook, on an iPad or a laptop. I write in coffee shops, hotels and even at the beach.
Anything new coming up from you? What?
I have a couple of things that are imminent. I have the third book in the trilogy, called Soulslayers that will be published in November. I also have an art book I am looking to release soon to accompany the first novel, Timeslayers, containing all my fantasy artwork showing the world and characters that inhabit the cosmos I have created.
Do you have a question for our readers?
If you wrote a fantasy novel yourself, what would it be about?
When doppelgangers start appearing in Oxford, Union Jack agents Ignatius and Indigo find themselves on another cosmic quest, one they didn’t set out to investigate.
Drawn into the search for the elusive and dangerous Book of Shadows, they find themselves traveling across the cosmos once again, racing against other versions of themselves, and visiting the Oracle to be given prophecies of terrible destruction that will engulf the cosmos in darkness. Only these two heroes—or their doubles—can open the book, which would lead to dreadful consequences for themselves, the world and the whole of creation.
The agents must outwit their own mirror souls and invade the impregnable Administorium, which holds the answers they need but also fearsome enemies of both the Union Jacks and the entire cosmos. In this quest, Ignatius and Indigo must protect not only England and the Empire, but the world and the cosmos.
Read an Excerpt
The scene became liquid, and blackness enveloped all, circling everything in the room, like an archaic ghostly phantom made of deadly vapours, before giving way to the slightest of dim light in which Indigo could see the ancient crepuscular shadow deepen and fully form into the upper body of the Queen of Shadows. She had concealed herself and had escaped the destruction earlier and was now a phantom bent on revenge. Her beautiful face appeared before Ignatius and she kissed him, her blue lips locking on to his as she pulled him closer, her slender arm locked around his neck. He had no escape. She looked directly at Indigo and sneered. The queen knew this would hurt Indigo the most.
As the queen kissed Ignatius again, then withdrew her face, Indigo could see she was sucking the lifeforce from his rigid lifeless body, revealing her black fangs as she pulled back, black tendrils draped between them like foul saliva.
The queen was now fully formed, her naked body displayed, her legs wrapped around Ignatius like a succubus in the night. Black tattoos covered her body, and as she moved, so did the tattoos. They writhed and changed shape, sliding over her skin, caressing her, absorbing energy from her.
Indigo knew it was only a matter of time before Ignatius would be an empty husk, a living zombie.
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