Unlikely Inspirations

  • Prince Valiant Title Sequence: Unlikely Inspirations

    Prince Valiant Title Sequence: Unlikely Inspirations

    Arthurian myths play a big role in The Fey Man. You might think I read and researched a lot of those myths. Perhaps you have a romantic image of me in a montage of reading books, cross-referencing articles, leafing furiously through pages before finally falling asleep on a pile of books, glasses askew. Perhaps you…

  • Ocarina of Time: Unlikely Inspirations

    Ocarina of Time: Unlikely Inspirations

    One of the characters in The Fey Man is Dank, a boy covered in bizarre tattoos who has a Faerie sprite living in his skin. This fay can push its way in and out of his body, at great pain to Dank, but whilst it’s within him he’s connected to the fay. He can share…

  • Cryo’s Dune: Unlikely Inspirations

    Cryo’s Dune: Unlikely Inspirations

    I think nearly every writer can point to a single book, film, comic or somesuch and say “that’s why I’m a writer”. It might not be the only cause, but it’s a primary cause. The blame falls mostly at its feet. Most writers seem to point to classics in their genre, be it Lord of…