I write fantasy, poetry and speculative fiction. Place is at the heart of everything I do-love of place, belonging in a place, fighting for a place: mythos and history and landscapes written on souls. My pen name is Alex Dartnell, my true name a powerful spell. To understand what I look for in a book, the bittersweet complexity and wonder of life expressed through story, I refer you equally to J. R. R. Tolkien and Diana Wynne Jones.
