THE STORY BEHIND THE STORIES
How I accidentally wrote a fantasy series.
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WORLD BUILDING
How I named a world.
LAND AHOY!
BIG BEAR
Big Bear: 2004-2021
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Big Bear – Personality and Background

THE MYTHIC SERIES is a story about stories and Big Bear the character was the logical place to drop a bunch cat-related myths—everything from Bast to Dick Whittington and Puss in Boots to having multiple lives. Big Bear the character is also based on Big Bear the real cat so, equally, what’s on the page is my interpretation of my beautiful boy’s larger than either-real-or-fictitious life personality.

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Sweet City – The Jailers

Sweet City is full of horrors, but which is the most terrifying? The monstrous Gingerbread Men? The creepy Sorting Mat? Matron Goose, who oversees the City with a firm wing? Or the Sugar Plum Airy that brings death to those it lands upon?

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Selene Charbon – Name and Appearance

In my initial plan for the series, Lucy was to be flanked by two very different contemporaries, something you can see threaded through their names. Amber Kim’s name radiates light, Lucia Knight’s balances light with dark, and Selene Charbon’s is shrouded in darkness.

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