Hi readers! I hope you enjoyed my sample chapter. I have nearly 30,000 words of this project already written.

This was my 2014 NaNoWriMo project (if you’re familiar with NaNo, you will have just figured out I didn’t win. Whoops. It’s my personal best, though). I’d been playing an unhealthy amount of Skyrim just beforehand, and you can see the game’s influence in the setting - although I’ve very much taken things in my own direction. I loved the world-building aspect of planning and writing the novel, and there’s a lot of mythology and history that will feed into the story. The concept was originally much lighter, and was intended to be a spoofy comedy set in a ’Women’s Liberal Magic College’, but as the characters and plotline developed further it became more grounded (for a book about magic, anyway). What’s coming up for our heroines? There’s intrigue! There’s romance! There’s mushrooms! If you’re interested in finding out more, please Follow the project, tweet me @panickyintheuk, and/or leave a comment.