S.J. Magill

The joy of writing for me is in putting the crazy scenarios - that I daydream - onto paper and making them real. I spend a lot of my day thinking about wizards, knights, and other fantasy-type things. Some ideas I like, but then forget about them completely, but if I write them down, they can exist forever. Some of the ideas are just little snippets of a story, and go nowhere, but some take on a life of their own. Take The Werechicken for example: that started existence as a thought - 'what if one of these superhero movies/books/comics started off with a person discovering their superpower, but then that superpower was rubbish. That would be funny.' So I wrote it down, as a funny little short story, but then it just kept going and going. I love my character, Frank, and I keep thinking of new ways to torture him.

I greatly appreciate that someone has taken the time to read my work - as an unknown author - because when it comes to unknown authors, people are taking a chance. There is no-longer anything stopping a person from publishing their own writing, which means that of course, there will be some total rubbish out there. Reading a book takes many hours, and books aren't free. Every time someone starts a book they're making a time investment into the book. I believe most readers would rather read someone with a track-record, or someone who has the backing of a major publishing house, rather than take a chance on an indie author who might be writing complete garbage. I'm thankful that there are people out there who give my work a chance, and end up being glad that they did.