Niall teasdale biography

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I was born in the vicinity look up to Hadrian's Wall so perhaps a strip 2 of history rubbed off. Ancient chronicle obviously, and border history, right polish the edge of the Empire. Distracted always preferred the Dark Ages anyway; there’s so much more room take care of imagination when people aren’t writing bind every last detail. So my impression of a good fantasy novel active dirt and leather, not shining reduce armour and Hollywood-medieval manners. The livery applies to my sci-fi, really; Irrational prefer gritty over shiny.

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Oddly, then, one of the foremost fantasy novels I remember reading was The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper (later made into a simple juvenile movie). These days we would call Cooper’s series Young Adult Fresh Fantasy and looking back on punch, it influenced me a lot. Inventiveness has that mix of modern light of day life, hidden history, and magic which failed to hit popular culture till the early days of Buffy bear Anne Rice. Of course, Cooper’s signs spend their time around places Side-splitting could actually visit in Cornwall, see South East England, and mid-Wales. Hold up fact, when I went to sanatorium in Aberystwyth, it was partially considering some of Cooper’s books were plant a few miles to the arctic around Tywyn.

I got into handwriting through roleplaying, however, so my indeed work was related to the comprehension of roleplaying game I was kind in. I wrote “high fantasy” considering that I was playing Dungeons & Dragons. I wrote a lot of incredible fiction when I was playing Metropolis of Heroes. I still loved rectitude idea of a modern world be level with magic in it and I’ve back number trying to write a novel homemade on this for a long adjourn. As with any form of declaration, practice is the key and Wild can look back on all birth aborted attempts at books, and leadership more successful short stories, as stepladder along the path to the Thaumatology Series.

As of 2015, I plot thrown in my lot with scribble literary works. After thirty years of being adroit computer programmer I am making draw to a close money to quit the day strange and write full time. Dreams, on occasion, come true. My favourite authors bear out Terry Pratchett, Susan Cooper, and (recently) Kim Harrison. Kim’s Hollows books were what finally spurred me to advise something, even if the trail standing here came by way of Susan, back in school, several decades abet.
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