![]() Its heroine was also called Maddy, she had a sister called Mae, a goblin friend (whose name, like that of Sugar-and-Sack, was taken from accounts of the Pendle witch trials) and most of the action went on in World Below – but Runemarks goes back even longer than that.Īnyone who remembers me from school will probably tell you that I was always doodling in class but instead of just drawing random stuff in the margins of my rough books, my doodles took the form of long, complicated comic-strips – inspired, I think, from Astérix, but often starring Norse gods. It was set in the same place, the valley of the Strond. ![]() ![]() In many ways, Witchlight was the prototype of Runemarks. My first full-length try at a novel was a sprawling 1000-page monster (with illustrations) called Witchlight, written when I was nineteen and rejected by every publisher I sent it to on account of its length, its complexity and the darkness of its imagery. ![]() About the book | Using Runes | Fingerings | Witchlight Background ![]()
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