Fantasy writing and why i love it
I began writing this as a fanfic related to a tv programme I’d been watching for years, I struggled trying the usual way because I couldn’t think of main characters names. Using the characters I could visualise who I was writing about, then I began to think of Fantasy writing and just began using the names, well adapted for this story with squirrels.
I had one of the readers who liked my stories begin reading them through and giving me guides concerning whether the story flowed, made sense or needed complete changing. Claire Higgins who also writes stories and fanfic helped me no ends and for that I’m extremely grateful and we have developed a close friendship together and with our partners.
Then the most idyllic thing happened, Claire tells me her sister Rebecca is a graphic artist and she could do my book cover design. I’d been approached by local designers who had templates but I wanted something different and Rebecca Higgins certainly exceeded my expectations by bringing my vision to life. The best thing was that my publishers, Olympia Publishing decided to choose her artwork over their own department, I was obviously overjoyed at that decision, as was Claire and definitely Rebecca who she’d a few tears of joy at the results.
Rebecca is now designing some small pictures for the website and I’ve given her some ideas for the cover of the Prequel, then I just need to determine what I was on the sequel cover.
Natalie Hopkins