Today, we caught up with award-winning author Inbali Iserles to discuss her new vivid, imaginative and spellbinding magical fantasy middle grade adventure Foxcraft: The Taken, the first in a trilogy. In book one (The Taken) fox cub Isla searches for her family and discovers the ancient hidden secrets and powers of foxcraft.
Animal fantasy feels very natural to me. I am a huge fan of magical stories, of that silvery gateway between the real and the imagined, and I have always loved animals. I was that kid who would stop in the street to greet cats and dogs. I was drawn to forests, rivers and the curious beasties that lurked under rocks. As an adult, that fascination with the natural world remains. My first book, The Tygrine Cat, was told from a feline perspective, and I have written as part of the Erin Hunter team on Survivors. I am at home when surrounded by animal friends, be they real or imaginary!
The endpapers are much larger, so I could really go wild! I used a mixture of Indian ink and brush work alongside the pen illustrations, to give them some texture. I tried not to second guess the imagery too much so it could evolve on the page. I guess you could say that the endpapers are snapshots of my (rather chaotic) mind!
This is essentially a quest story with the action moving us towards the final confrontation between good and evil. Whilst it is best to have read the preceding books it is not vital and I was able to understand the plot without having done so. The author has kept the characters very much as animals, she has not tried to humanize them and they have to deal with their natural instincts. This balance of animal behaviours linked with a magical and mystical belief system makes for a complex yet believable world. It is fascinating to see the difference between wolf and fox societies, with the wolves having a hierarchical structure based around a clan (or pack), whilst foxes are more independent and do not have the same framework at all Despite all of this we find ourselves building a rapport with the characters and the author hooks us in to the story until the final moments. This is a great story for those who love reading about nature and especially that which has a sense of magic woven through it.
In developing the plot, the magical facets of foxcraft and the overarching quest narrative, it quickly became clear that Foxcraft would be an epic. It took in three distinct locations: the Greylands (the rumbling metropolis), the Wildlands (the vast countryside) and the Snowlands (the frozen realms of the snow wolves). What I was looking at was a trilogy.
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