I haven’t posted for a while but have been working behind the scenes. Recently, I embarked on the first draft of a sequel to Mageborn. Some years ago, I’d started what I thought was a short story, set in that world, then got stuck. But when I went back to it three or four months ago, I realised it was really the start of a novel and what’s more, one that would come between Mageborn and what was then the second in the series, a book I’d written the beginning and...