Interview with Lucy McLaren

Social media enables us to build communities around the world. A new writing community is Feed My Reads. Through them, I met English fantasy author Lucy McLaren, who recently interviewed me on her website. In this post, I return the favor — excuse me, favour — by interviewing Lucy. She will tell us about her writing journey and her upcoming novel Awakening: The Commune’s Curse, which is the start of a new fantasy trilogy.

Tell us about yourself, where you’re from, and how you got into writing.

Hello! My name’s Lucy, I’m a counsellor and fantasy author from Essex, England. I live with my husband and young son, who I’m currently raising whilst attempting to continue with all things writing and book based. It’s been a steep learning curve!

I remember enjoying writing from a very young age. My most vivid memory of starting on fantasy stories specifically is being sat in the school library at age 11/12 and writing chapters, which I’d swap with my friends. That’s where I’d pinpoint my love of writing really taking off.

What books did you read as a child, and how did they inspire you?

As a child, I read Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness Quartet, The Queen’s Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, The Sword of Shadow series by J.V. Jones (admittedly an adult series…