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First Crown: Malice of Snow (2018) and First Crown: Tears of Fire (2019) comprised the First Crown series of high fantasy books, first drafted at age 12 by Higgins and subsequently edited and published by ages 13 and 15 respectively.

The fulfilment of a childhood ambition; the books themselves served as an obvious homage to Higgins' epic fantasy contemporaries in authors such as George R.R. Martin, Christopher Paolini and J.R.R. Tolkien as well as being, perhaps most of all, influenced by the video game series, the Elder Scrolls.

They were met with relatively small but nonetheless unexpected success, becoming bestsellers on Amazon's dark fantasy and epic fantasy lists - topping the UK dark fantasy list - and receiving mostly positive reviews. First Crown: Malice of Snow (2018) and First Crown: Tears of Fire (2019) comprised the First Crown series of high fantasy books, first drafted at age 12 by Higgins and subsequently edited and published by ages 13 and 15 respectively.

The fulfilment of a childhood ambition; the books themselves served as an obvious homage to Higgins' epic fantasy contemporaries in authors such as George R.R. Martin, Christopher Paolini and J.R.R. Tolkien as well as being, perhaps most of all, influenced by the video game series, the Elder Scrolls.

They were met with relatively small but nonetheless unexpected success, becoming bestsellers on Amazon's dark fantasy and epic fantasy lists - topping the UK dark fantasy list - and receiving mostly positive reviews.

During this time Higgins collaborated with a couple of charitable causes (namely OCD-UK and Teenage Cancer Trust) and made appearances in a handful of various local and print-only papers and magazines, as well as hosting an odd bunch of book signings at the local Tesco (an unorthodox location for a book signing no doubt) and Coffee #1.

Askaria Publishing, which ended up solely a label for the First Crown series, also materialised amongst a small array of other half-baked and hair-brained projects which never quite came to fruition during a time of overly heightened ambition during Higgins' tenure as an author. This period also saw him meet Stroud MP David Drew to discuss the Talgrin Project, a charitable endeavour which was eventually deemed impossible.

Mid 2020 and aged 15, Higgins stepped away from writing out of growing dissatisfaction with the books themselves, finding that what he'd rather write now was largely at odds with what he'd written at a much younger age - seeing First Crown as jointly too incongruous and derivative to be worth finishing.

Out of this also grew a desire to focus on other aspects of his life - thusly both books were removed from stores, unpublished and taken out of print indefinitely with much of his online presence also erased. He is currently pursuing a career in wildlife conservation.
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C. Higgins Currently I'm working on the third book in the First Crown series, The Red King, which should be available mid next year.…moreCurrently I'm working on the third book in the First Crown series, The Red King, which should be available mid next year.(less)

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C. Higgins This is a question I'm asked quite a lot and I usually end up surprising people by telling them that my primary source of inspiration for the First Cr…moreThis is a question I'm asked quite a lot and I usually end up surprising people by telling them that my primary source of inspiration for the First Crown series came from the videogame; The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim.
It's my favourite game that I've played before and is spectacular, I couldn't try to sum it up in a couple of words and I would recommend it to almost anyone that's never played it before.
Whenever I'm preparing to do a big block of writing, I'll usually start another play-through of Skyrim to get the creative juices flowing.(less)

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