Writing ‘Gharantia’s Guardian’
Book 1 in the ‘Chronicles of the Endless War’ series So, it’s mid-August 2024, the Edinburgh Festival is on, the weather has been so changeable this summer, and work has been busy at the pub… but my all-consuming passion for Gharantia and its people just keeps pulling me in, day after day. Well… that’s probably quite handy since I am writing an epic fantasy about them all! Book 2, Gharantia’s Fury , is finished and will release on the 13th of September, my fella’s birthday. I hope he likes his present because it was quite the effort this year! Haha. But it’s moments like this when I look back at all this craziness—being an indie author and all that it entails—why I chose this road to walk down instead of querying and going the traditionally published route? What made me begin writing this fantastical tale in the first place? Do you even care? Well, you might care a bit since you are reading this! As for why I started writing about Gharantia, that’s a story in it...