I know, I know, lots of you have been in touch, wanting some more information of the freebies I am offering, what you have to do to be eligible and so on. So on the build up to publication day for 'Elfistra the Sorceress' I am going to spell it out for you. (excuse the pun) Remember, publication date is Tuesday the 19th of March on Amazon There will be 2 distinct elements to all this. One is where you will have to purchase a paperback or a Kindle e Book version, and the other

Starting today, Monday the 14th of January until Monday the 28th of January. The greatest Wand Chronicles memorabilia prize yet. It is the Elfistra Magic Cushion. ( see image at bottom of blog) With a couple of wipes of your hand, the surface of the cushion dramatically changes from that of a beautiful gold sequinned surface to reveal Elfistra the Sorceress in all her glory. (you will have to provide the cushion itself that goes inside) (all answers can be found somewhere in

Congratulations to Margaret Foster for winning the last competition! Margaret chose the Elfistra the Sorceress TShirt as her prize. And now we are on the cusp of the New Year, lets kick it off with the simplest of questions to win a limited edition Wand Chronicles Logo mug. (see the image at the foot of this blog) All you have to do is give me the name of the Elvish dimension that features in the Wand Chronicles. Its name translates as 'The Immeasurable Dimension'. This compe

So now 'Elfistra the Sorceress', Book 1: of The Wand Chronicles, has been done and dusted. Official publication date is the 19th of March 2019, Although I can't set up the paperback for pre-orders, I can with the Kindle eBook, and that is available now! There is one last thing with Book 1 - It will be also made into an Audio book. Since I was an Actor for over thirty years, I will be narrating it. I am probably more aware of all the characters and their nuances than anyone el

The problem with Laniakeea, the Elvish dimension, that connects to our Earthan dimension via the Slice, is that in the North are a collection of portals, that open onto a myriad of dimensions. Not only Elvish, but all sorts of species, from the simple to the most bizarre. The grand law of the cosmos dictates that if there is 'good' there has to exist 'evil'. And boy, does Laniakeea get more than its fair share of the 'bad boys ' of the cosmos. Let us pick on just one, and thi

More and more of you are asking, what is the Sola tree? or The Sola Continuum? How is it a part of the Elvish dimension of Laniakeea, and of course, our own dimension as well. Ok, let me put it all into perspective for you. Whilst we are all involved in our own little lives here in the Earthan dimension, day in , day out, we are governed by the laws of mechanics, gravity, time, spiritualism etc. Everything is very rigid and everything has rules. Rules that cannot be broken. S

In the district of Nymlarii on the Elvish dimension of Laniakeea, there is a grand archery competition. It happens every three revolutions of Laniakeea's two moons, which is approximately equivalent to thirteen Earthan months. As a precursor, there are fourteen knockout competitions to decide the winners of each of the fourteen districts. Each team is comprised of three members, and the teams are generally all from the same Laniakeean family. So, the team colours and banners

I have now finished the first book of the trilogy, The Wand Chronicles. The working title of 'Book One' has now been set in stone as 'Elfistra the Sorceress'. A friend asked me how the book was going. I was about to start the final chapter, which is called 'The Decision', and without realising what I was saying, I told her, " It is so exciting, I can't wait to compose it." "Why?" she asked. And I said, "Because I know what's going to happen." ( This is where you can laugh, sn

Time for you to get creative. Close your eyes and imagine where we would be in another 3,500,000 years? Hugo, Ding Ling and Allana visit a dimension that can re-create anything. It has to be real, either from the past or way into the future. They find themselves coming across a species called the Humaas. Their DNA signature was created in exactly the same form as ours, but they were seeded into an entirely different dimension. Not just that, but were seeded 3,500,000 years be

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At Last. It's competition time! Altogether there will be three competitions to win a one off WAND CHRONICLES piece of memorabilia. Competition one. 1. Sign up here for the blog (It's all free) 2. Read the Blogs published so far 3. Answer this question : What is the name of the special box, the wand, Elvina is kept in? 4. Send your answer and contact details to thewandchronicles@gmail.com 5.Start date : 19th September, 2018 End date : 3rd of October, 2018 The first correct a

There is a species of water Elf that live in an enormous and very deep lake on Laniakeea. At its deepest point it is over twelve miles deep, and there are colonies of these water elves happily living there. This lake is called Salnalyn Lake and is situated in the very north of Laniakeea in the district of Baeruu. This species of water Elf are called the Pharaas, and were rescued from their own dimension, where at one stage, were persecuted almost to extinction by a warring El

There is trouble in the air in the Elvish dimension of Laniakeea. There is a dark species of Elf called the Mandaxon. They are a very tall species, in excess of seven feet tall, and completely covered in blue/black cloth. The cloth is straggly, not neat, so the outline of the Mandaxon is broken up, so they become harder to spot. They prefer to attack at dusk or night. Even each of their long fingers are wrapped up. The only part of the body visible are the ears, (very long El

We have described a Human. Not a nice character do you agree? So what about on Laniakeea? I know I have mentioned it before, but I want to remind you, if I may, of the vast scale of Laniakeea compared to the Earth dimension. As an example, take a large map of the Earth, spread it out on a table. Let's just say the map is four foot by four foot. That's a big map, right? Now, get a biro, and find wherever it is in the world that you live, and just put a period or full stop mark

To have a well written book, I think you will agree, we need a diverse set of characters. Characters that you will fall in love with, characters that you will despise from the word go, and characters that bring humour into the melting pot. I mean that is life, right? And it needn't be Human characters, it can be alien characters as well, and in my books, we are talking Elves. I have to persuade the reader that although the culture, looks and way of life of an Elf is so forei

There is a parallel dimension to our Earth. It is called Laniakeea. From the Elvish dialect, called Forlasath, it roughly translates as 'the immeasurable dimension'. And indeed it is. If we were to flatten out the Earth, it would appear as a mere dot on the expanse that is Laniakeea. It is diverse as it is immeasurable. In the North North West of Laniakeea, there is a district called Gareen. Dotted all over Gareen are twenty four portals, connecting Lanniakeea with other dim

So I am in a quandry here, and I would like your help? As with every good book, whether it be drama, detective, a novel, non-fiction, and in this case, a Sci-Fi adventure, there will be a hero. Right? Yes, of course. But what sort of hero do I want? What sort of hero do you want?.I don't mean a goody or a baddy, I mean, a man or a woman?. Straight into the nitty gritty I am going. I feel I am going to be controversial? Sure. It's a little like being a politician, I'm going

When I set out with the idea of writing an epic fantasy trilogy, this was an adventure in itself You see, I didn’t want to offer a story that didn’t feel was real, with characters that were not properly thought about and researched. I have been an Actor for many years, and recently turned to writing, which I love, but when I was an Actor, one of my primary concerns and goals, was that I tried my level best to make my performance, the character I was portraying, as real as pos