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Navigating the Shadow Ways

The protagonist of “The Shadow Lord’s Son,” Brannan Marec Mavrenn, has visions of alternate realms. The planet Alsar is sentient, and when humans arrived, it interacted with their minds to create the Shadow Realms: alternate dimensions that reflected their racial and mythological history. In the trilogy’s first book, To Take Away His Voice, these realms..

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A Hero’s Transformation

What does it take to make a hero? In “The Shadow Lord’s Son,”  the Bard, Brannan, faces complex challenges. While his adventures share features of the archetypal Hero’s Journey, Brannan Marec Mavrenn’s trials are not typical. He is an honoured and influential bard until his life is disrupted. The first challenge is to deliver a..

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Emerging from the Mists

Bringing Brannan’s story into reality has been a long process. The manuscript took two years to write. I have completed all three books in the trilogy, but only Part One: “To Take Away His Voice” has just been published. For any author, writing the first draft of a book is just the beginning. Editing is..

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