Two budding Ayrshire writers have mixed their skills to supply a brand new fantasy novel.
Sophie Petticrew, from Mauchline, and Karen Cooper, from Ochiltree, have co-written ‘Spirit Guardians of Provenance,’ which has already been nicely acquired by the general public
Their debut novel is a younger grownup fantasy, based mostly within the legendary land of Provenance and tells the story of six youngsters who should journey to this land and defend it in opposition to an evil overlord.
And Karen, 32, who works within the library at Grange Academy, Kilmarnock, revealed how the e-book got here to life.
She revealed: “The concept was Sophie’s. She had a go at writing it herself, however each time it by no means fairly got here out proper.
“We’ve been buddies for 20 years and have been chatting about it someday.
“I mentioned ‘I’m the precise reverse, I really like writing, however I can by no means provide you with something to write down about’ so it was a match made in heaven- and between the 2 of us we made one competent creator!
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“To date, now we have heard nothing however good issues and we’re satisfied to bits with the reception.
“I work in a faculty library and I had some copies issued right here. All of the pupils who took it out have actually loved it, so it’s been a dream come true.”
Karen and Sophie, additionally 32, have been agency buddies since their days at Ochiltree Main and Auchinleck Academy.
At present, Sophie is coming in the direction of the top of her first yr as a pupil psychological well being nurse.
And Karen believes the Sophie’s concept for the e-book was borne out of escapism from the powerful realities of being a care practitioner.
Karen mentioned: “Fantasy has at all times been a little bit of escapism for Sophie when it comes to her job and exams. It’s nice to flee from that form of stress.”
The hope is that the pair can reunite and presumably pen a sequel to Spirit Guardians of Provenance.
Karen revealed: “We’d like to write down a follow-up, we left the top of this one open ended so we are able to possibly revisit it and hopefully we are able to do one other one. We’d like it if we might handle it.”
The e-book is accessible by way of Amazon, however can be ordered at Austin MacAuley Publishers at https://www.austinmacauley.com/
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