Trudi Canavan
Trudi Canavan
Trudi Canavanis an Australian writer of fantasy novels, best known for her best-selling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician trilogy and Age of the Five. While establishing her writing career she worked as a graphic designer. She completed her third trilogy, The Traitor Spy trilogy, in August 2012 with The Traitor Queen. After this Canavan will be writing a new trilogy on a completely new world called Millennium’s Rule and will consist of multiple worlds which characters can cross between...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 October 1969
CountryAustralia
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.
The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.
How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?
So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.' 'Oh. Then. Nothing.' He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.
The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.
Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.
I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.
He had given her too much. He had given her everything.