Rupert – Book Projects

One of the interesting aspects of writing fiction is that, unless you decide to use existing locations, you have to invent stuff. For Books of Loukas, I decided fairly early on that although the locations would bear more than a passing resemblance to places I have visited or which I know about, I would not, except in the broadest geographical sense, use real places. Instead I would invent places, although I wanted them to be […]

When I started the sketches that would eventually coalesce as The Books Of Loukas 5 years ago, I had no idea what I was going to have to actually do, in terms of detail work. Along the way, apart from inventing 20 or so characters, I realized that I needed to invent an entire town, geographical area and other aspects of an imaginary world. This is not like Tolkien, who invented not only a complete