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Author Bio — Elijah Wingnut
I was in high school when The Hobbit gave me my first taste of fantasy. Years later, while on business in Sydney, I wandered into a bookshop and happened across The Lord of the Rings. Something about those hobbits rang a familiar bell, so I bought it. I've since read that copy so many times its spine is falling apart—although none of the pages are dog-eared.
Other favourites followed: Dune, The Magician, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and The Wheel of Time. At the other end of my reading spectrum were the novels of Jackie Collins, whose bitches, bastards, humour and complicated relationships entertained millions.
Eventually I wondered: what would happen if I put the two together?
That question ultimately became Se Author Bio — Elijah Wingnut
I was in high school when The Hobbit gave me my first taste of fantasy. Years later, while on business in Sydney, I wandered into a bookshop and happened across The Lord of the Rings. Something about those hobbits rang a familiar bell, so I bought it. I've since read that copy so many times its spine is falling apart—although none of the pages are dog-eared.
Other favourites followed: Dune, The Magician, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and The Wheel of Time. At the other end of my reading spectrum were the novels of Jackie Collins, whose bitches, bastards, humour and complicated relationships entertained millions.
Eventually I wondered: what would happen if I put the two together?
That question ultimately became Sex, Blood & Glory.
Although not in the way I expected.
I originally planned a fantasy set in a brutal world inspired by Ancient Rome. I plotted the story from beginning to end and started writing.
Then I wondered what it would be like to actually visit a world like this—to sit on the sidelines and watch it all happening.
So I introduced a man from the future. He didn't know how he'd arrived there or how to get home. I didn't even give him a name. He lived in a cave overlooking the city, foraged for food and watched. He wasn't supposed to change anything. He was just an observer.
Then, because I'm terrible at drawing maps, I borrowed a map of Ancient Rome rather than create my own. My imaginary Roman world promptly became Ancient Rome.
That caused a problem.
My original world contained the Leluuwahn—small beings who fly on crystal shields and interfere in human affairs. Inconveniently, history records remarkably few of them in Ancient Rome!
After wrestling with the problem for about a week I decided to keep both the Leluuwahn and Rome. At this point I threw the original plot out the window. My unnamed observer became Nate. Because he came from the future he needed a past. Creating that past brought Jane and Amanda into the story. Those two were only supposed to be part of Nate's backstory.
Jane and Amanda had other ideas. Both women proved far too interesting to remain in the background and steadily gave themselves much larger roles than I'd intended.
Roman history began colliding with fantasy, prophecy and people from 2045. Characters multiplied, storylines intersected and villains refused to behave themselves. At one point my editor asked where the story was going.
It was a good question. I didn't know.
Eventually the chaos became organised chaos, and that became Vegas then Rome. I now know where the series is going – including the final line of the trilogy - but I still allow the characters to take the story on unexpected detours.
I live about an hour north of Sydney, Australia, and write as Elijah Wingnut because the idea of a fictitious world written by a fictitious author appeals to me. I have never wanted to know about the authors of the fantasy worlds I read. It makes their worlds feel less real to me. I’m not a fruit loop who believes their worlds are real, I just want to believe their worlds are real.
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