If you’re curious about The Strandlock, here are answers to 12 frequently asked questions (FAQs): What age group is The Strandlock intended for? Tima is a young woman of around seventeen, making the book a Young Adult fantasy. Adults will certainly enjoy it as well. Is this a romantasy? The…
From the first line of the book, you’ll meet Tima, the unexpected main character of The Strandlock. Her full name is Tima-Rein, and The Strandlock is her story. From the very early handwritten pages I drafted more than three decades ago, this was Tima’s coming-of-age story. Who is Tima? Tima…
Writing a novel tests an author, but crafting a back-cover blurb may be the greater challenge. For The Strandlock, I wrote over 92,000 words to tell a fantasy story and had fun doing it. Creating the blurb took more revisions and rewrites than I expected, and was worth it. What…
In fantasy novels, world building often begins before the first word of the novel is written. Considerable effort goes into bringing these fictional places to life. That was true for The Strandlock. World building for The Strandlock was the most enjoyable part of the creative process. A New World The…
The map is always one of my favorite parts of a fantasy novel. Having majored in geography in college, I love seeing the terrain and place names of the world the author has created. For The Strandlock, that world is a place called Spira, and it has its own map,…