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Audiobook Release 10th October

Posted on August 25, 2023 by Benedict

Just a brief post today to let you know that we’ve now got a narrator for An Inheritance of Magic, and I’ve been told by my publisher that the US audio edition should be released at the same time as … Continue reading →

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Chapter 2 is up, Book 2 is done

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Benedict

The second chapter for An Inheritance of Magic is now online!  You can read it here. For those of you who missed Chapter 1, here’s the link to that as well. And the first draft of the sequel to An … Continue reading →

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Covers, Audiobooks, and Chapter 2

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Benedict

So we’re now 2 months away from the release of An Inheritance of Magic, and we’ve come to the end of the introductory series of worldbuilding articles (they’ve only scratched the surface of the new setting, with a lot more … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #4:  Wells

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Benedict

Creating a sigl requires an enormous quantity of essentia, and the only place where so much essentia can naturally be found is at a Well. Despite its name, a Well is not created in the same way as a human-dug … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #3:  Sigls

Posted on July 28, 2023 by Benedict

Sigls and the effects they create are the ‘finished product’ of drucraft.  Essentia comes first, Wells come second, and drucrafters come third – the creation of sigls is the second-to-last link at the end of a very long chain.  When … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #2:  The Three Disciplines

Posted on July 21, 2023 by Benedict

Drucraft is comprised of three disciplines, namely: Sensing:  Perceiving essentia. Channelling:  Controlling essentia. Shaping:  Creating sigls. All drucraft is an application of one or more of these things. Sensing is the first and most basic of the disciplines.  A drucrafter’s … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft #1:  Essentia

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Benedict

What is drucraft?  It is the art and skill of working with essentia. Essentia is fundamental and omnipresent, a universal energy source that only interacts with the physical world in limited ways.  It can occupy the same space as material … Continue reading →

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An Inheritance of Magic – Chapter 1

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Benedict

Chapter 1 of An Inheritance of Magic is now online!  You can read it here.  Chapter 2 will be going online in a bit over a month, on August 18th. Next week will kick off my my new series of … Continue reading →

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Reviews, Updates, And Extract Next Week

Posted on June 30, 2023 by Benedict

Various bits of news for this week! Inheritance of Magic #2 is coming along.  I’ve just finished the penultimate section of the book, making it roughly 5/6th complete – it’s now sitting at 75,000 words out of a planned 90,000.  … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Drucraft

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Benedict

It’s now about three and a half months until the release of An Inheritance of Magic, and you know what that means:  it’s time to start on a new series of worldbuilding articles! The setting for my new series is … Continue reading →

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