So why Isis, you may ask? Why does my character, Ange, turn out to be Isis incarnate? Why the Egyptian pantheon? Why a goddess, and not a shape-shifting vampire slayer, or a technically advanced time-travelling do-gooder, or some kind of well-meaning elf-dryad-unicorn hybrid, or a priestess from the sunken, undiscovered-by-humankind island of Atlantis, or a Fairy Godmother Voodoo Queen, or some other supernatural entity? Easy answer: Er, I dunno. Honest answer: I guess this i

One of the important things for me in my writing is to explore the genres I most love to write. From my beginnings as an author – right back when I started writing as a child – fantasy was my clear favourite. So what influenced me most in my journey to the author I am now? Books – Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Faraway Tree series, The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Gulliver’s Travels, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Aladdin, Aesop’s