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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

17/08/2009 / Ellie

…I entered a short story competition organised to celebrate the author Douglas Reeman‘s 25 years in print. Somehow, I won, with a rousing Napoleonic War frigate action in the Med. This was 1984, and I was a whole 15 years old.

I got to meet Douglas for lunch in Mayfair and was thoroughly charmed by the man. We corresponded for some time afterwards, and he was unstinting in his encouragement of me as a writer. We lost touch, as school and exams got in the way and I shelved my wilder writerly ambitions for a time. Continue reading

Unholy Trinity

16/08/2009 / Ellie

So I’ve started on Book 2 of “The Wild Hunt Trilogy”, “Trinity Moon”. I confess, I’ve cheated a bit – there was a sub-plot in Book 1 that I was deeply attached to but it wasn’t deeply attached to the rest of the opening story arcs and just didn’t fit, timeline-wise. So I cut it out, all 40-odd k of it, earlier this year and realised that it should have been in Book 2 all along, and I’d been trying to cover too much ground in Book 1.

It needs an edit, since it hasn’t had the same amount of attention that Songs has, which is what I’m doing now, and the excitement has started to build. I’m getting that little wobbly buzz under my breastbone again, and I’m absolutely dying to get through the edit and start turning the plan into some real new chapters.

Oh, didn’t I mention? I’ve actually got a plan for “Trinity”. Me, the walking definition of a pantser, has A Plan. I’ll have a synopsis next, just you wait.