The Crow
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Alison Croggon is an award-winning Australian poet, playwright, editor, and critic. She started to write the books of Pellinor when her oldest son, Joshua, began to read fantasy. "I had forgotten how much I loved this stuff when I was a kid," she says. "My first real ambition as a child was to write a fantasy novel, and Josh's reading reminded me. So one day I sat down and started to write. I had no idea what would happen, but one character appeared, and then another, and before long I had to finish the story to see how it turned out."
That story turned out to be the first book in this series: The Naming. She says she has been surprised by how the books have seemed to unfold, already formed, before her. "Perhaps they've been waiting to be written for thirty years."