My guest column for Jane Bwye. Although this trail exists in the real world here in Alaska, I used it as an inspiration for Donyl and Janara’s trek toward Fairhaven in Mirklin Wood. Enjoy seeing how the real world intersects with fantasy in my imagination.
Today we’re going to join my friend Lela Markham from Authonomy days, as she goes hiking in Alaska. This is the setting for her new book Mirklin Wood and she gives us tantalising glimpses of her beautiful descriptive prose. Over to you, Lela!
Thank you for having me back on the blog, Jane. I’ve been busy and just published my third book – Mirklin Wood this week.
I live in the beautiful state of Alaska, which is filled with wonderful places to get away by yourself. What a wonderful world for a writer to find places that inspire settings within our books. I thought I’d share one of them that appears in Mirklin Wood.
My family are hikers, rock climbers, berry pickers and fisher folk. It’s early morning in the O’Brien Creek campground just outside of Chitina Alaska, on the banks of the Copper River. We drove 300 miles to…
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