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Alan The Jackdaw Man.
He’s away in the future!
Helping the boys in their
Second adventure!
Alan
Haigh-Tillotson
Author of Brotherly Love — The Red Knight's Tale, a fantasy set in the Yorkshire fields and written scene by scene, in the shape of a film.
Your biography goes here
Two or three paragraphs in your own words: where you're from, what you did before writing, and how Brotherly Love came about. Send it over and this section is swapped straight in.
What we can say from the manuscript alone: the book is published under the name Lochiel, and it is set in the Yorkshire countryside — a dirt track, a deep ditch, and a thirteenth-century tithe barn with an air vent six feet up its end wall.
It is written in scenes rather than chapters, with staging and dialogue set down as they would be shot. It was built to be watched as much as read.
Three things the manuscript makes plain
Keep the accent
Nothing was smoothed out for a wider audience. The brothers speak the way brothers actually speak to each other, which is to say rarely kindly and never in full sentences.
Let the villain win a bit
Voth is not a comic wizard. He bargains for souls, summons demons and enjoys the fear. Children's fantasy is better when the danger is real.
Write it as film
Scene headings, staging, entrances and exits. The story arrived as something to be seen, so it was set down that way and never converted.
