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Author Insight
Inspiration for Moon & Shadow
The inspiration for Moon & Shadow came during an evening walk. The full moon hung low on the horizon — so close it felt like you could reach out and touch it. So I imagined someone doing exactly that. Not just touching it, but pulling it down from the sky. The name Sebastian came from Lloyd Alexander’s The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian, a favorite from my youth. With that first image, and that name, the earliest chapters fell into place. At the time, I had no idea that a single act — pulling the moon from the sky — would grow into the entire magical kingdom of Liamec, now spanning seven books and counting.
Book Excerpt
Moon & Shadow
There was a young man in the village, Sebastian, who went out late one evening when the moon was full, took the moon down from the sky, and hung it over the mantelpiece in his home. He didn’t try to do this in secret; he didn’t hide what he was doing from the other villagers. He simply did it, like he was bringing the cows home for the evening, as he had earlier.Now in those days, people were more likely to believe things. They were more likely to believe things they saw, they were more likely to believe things they felt, and they were more likely to believe things they heard. So when a couple of villagers who saw Sebastian do this described what they had seen in the village pub, they weren’t greeted with disdain and denial. Instead, they were greeted with wonder and fascination, followed by disdain and denial.
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