A Gemmell Award Essay: “Why I Chose To Write Fantasy & Writing Influences”

The Gemmell Morningstar Award 2012

As you may know, The Heir of Night (The Wall of Night Book One) recently won the international Gemmell Morningstar Award.

As one of the authors on the original Morningstar longlist, I was asked if I would submit an article on why I chose to write in the Fantasy genre and also the influences on my writing style, that might be posted on the Gemmell Awards site.

Although the article did not in fact post, I thought it might be of sufficient interest, given the awar...