The Story Behind the story
This Elydian saga began back in November 1999 during a writers’ residency in a cottage at a university. For three weeks, I slept during the day and worked feverishly at night when the computer in the writers’ cottage was free, tumbling into bed about six o’clock in the morning. I gave workshops, went for walks, shivered in unseasonably cold weather and swept innumerable millipedes off the walls. I averaged around 10,000 words a session. It was wonderful, but during the last few days my hands started to swell and ache, and within a couple of weeks of getting home, I’d succumbed to chronic tendonitis in both hands, a condition that continues to plague me eighteen years later. I’d written two full novels and part of another, but had to put them aside. In 2016, I realised the backstory wanted to be told. Okay, I could do 30,000 words, and if it worked out, I might finally finish my series. 113,000 words later… the book was finally complete.
Since the story broke naturally into three parts, and since it was too long for a single volume, it is being published as three volumes; Elysian Dawn, The Silvering and New Dreams. Elysian Dawn is out now. You can check it out and buy the ebook HERE.
Since the story broke naturally into three parts, and since it was too long for a single volume, it is being published as three volumes; Elysian Dawn, The Silvering and New Dreams. Elysian Dawn is out now. You can check it out and buy the ebook HERE.