Welcome to the Witchwood!

For three hundred years, no living tree has been seen in the Witchwood, a dying land stalked by monsters. When Mara, a travelling witch with a monstrous power, makes a discovery that could change its fate, she is forced to fight a fungal death cult who would see the world rot. Along the way, she forms an uneasy alliance with Lydia, a huntress from the north. But Lydia is chasing secrets of her own, buried in a past closer to the present than either of them knows.

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1/3 done, and a hand-drawn cover!

We're now 90 manuscript pages into draft two. We've done a huge voice and character pass after our restructuring, and we now have strong voices for three of the four PoV characters. We're currently trying to find the voice for our young male scholar (the only…

Writer’s block and rewrites

Last week, I was struggling between a birthday party I organised for our five-year-old daughter and just having no inspiration or will to even open the computer. The editing process feels like such a grind for me. I found myself constantly wanting to line…

Rethinking the structure

Yesterday we made the somewhat painful decision to review the entire structure of the book. I had started to go a little too crazy on the line-to-line edit and yet didn't feel thrilled about how things were brought on in the book. Which is why, after talking…

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