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Frances Evelyn

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in Coventry, The United Kingdom

December 22

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Frances Evelyn was born in Coventry and now lives in Rutland with her husband, two sons, who are - for the moment - too old for stories and magic, and a cockerpoo who protects them from shadows.

After twenty rewarding years of teaching English and an interesting few in management, Frances writes for readers who love real-world fantasy that makes them feel and think.

Her latest book, Bibliomancer, is her favourite thing -- a book about books. Emily, the main character, volunteers to read to patients in a hospice until she's arrested in connection with a series of suspicious deaths.

Across the five books (four out so far) of The Changeling Tree series, Frances combines tangled time-lines, family saga and Faerie. How do you tell a secret no-one ...more

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The world of The Changeling Tree is so richly formulated, what would you say your biggest influences were when you created it?

Frances Evelyn Hi Liv. Thanks for your question and sorry that it's taken me so long to reply.

I've been working on The Changeling Tree in the gaps between other thin…moreHi Liv. Thanks for your question and sorry that it's taken me so long to reply.

I've been working on The Changeling Tree in the gaps between other things, so it's probably a composite of influences from everything I've read and watched and experienced across fifteen plus years, as well as the books that made me want to be a writer before that. The characters sometimes talk about some of these sources: look out for Doctor Who and Buffy.

My Faerie world is a modernised version of the medieval otherworld, but I was sure they'd have updated their balls and gowns in the meantime. My Faerie folk are bored, childish and quarrelsome. I'm sure they're influenced by the beautifully world-weary vampires in Stuart Hill's Icemark Chronicles, which I read to my younger son along the way.

I haven't read many modern books about fairies -- I wanted to make up my own rules for them -- but I loved Some Kind of Fairy Tale by Graham Joyce, which is set in Charnwood, not far from where my characters lived. His characters explore the implications for mental health of fairy abduction, which you'll see more of in later books in the series. I also really enjoyed Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveller's Wife, which looked at the challenges of carrying on with normal life as a time-traveller.

Finally, the cupboard is a nod to C.S. Lewis's wardrobe, which is the book Tracy's reading just before Rose bursts into her bedroom.(less)

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Are you still doing free advanced copies of Bibliomancer? It looks cool.

Frances Evelyn Hi Joan. Thank you. Yes I am, for a limited period. The link to sign up is here: https://www.subscribepage.com/q4c9m4

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Average rating: 4.36 · 97 ratings · 82 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bookseller's Apprentice 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Changeling Tree (The Changeling Tree, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midwinter Magic and Mayhem by Frances Evelyn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Anna Tizard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Anya Pavelle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time Before (The Changeling Tree, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Traitor Within (The Changeling Tree, Book III) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Sarah Ward and the Lyddington Djinn 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Partly for my own benefit and partly for anyone else who might find it useful, here's my experience of launching an indie book on Facebook. In this case, it's The Traitor Within, the third instalment in my real-world fantasy family saga series, The Changeling Tree.

I set up a week long launch event on Facebook, beginning when my book came out. I pushed it out to my followers an