The first book I ever wrote for children, begun when I started revising for my degree, was a little too like C.S.Lewis according to the agents, so I had to write something slightly different.
The result was Fulminar The Good Magician which is about a special magician come to earth to rescue some stolen, magical pictures. It is set in London and the chapters on how the eighty year old man from whom the pictures were stolen, changes into an eleven year old boy and how he reacts to that, were thought well done. Not that anyone ever wanted to publish it. I was very fond of the magician though and along with two other stories I wrote over the same year, he appears again in the longer fantasy work which won’t be ready until late next year.
I am delighted that the young artist Martin Williams decided to illustrate Fulminar The Good Magician and design a cover based on his photographs so now the 120 page book will be published the autumn; and it is pleasing that amongst the first children’s book I am publishing will be the first I completed that merited publication.
The Five Pictures of Rhyme, the Orlates and the beginning of the fantasy world in my mind is about to be launched.