Sneak peek at the making of my 'Shadow Through Time' trilogy

I've received lots of positive feedback on this series from the time publishers were first looking at the opening book Destiny of the Light to the point where the Doubleday book club selected them as their 'Editors Choice' – comments on the originality of the fantasy world I'd created, the realism of the characters, and the fact that the books weren't dense with difficult-to-remember words or concepts.

I'd like to explain how this evolved.  When it comes to characterisation, 'real' people...