The Season of Witches and Wizards, Spells and Pumpkins...
The trees are turning gold, and the world seems just a little bit more magical at this time of year. There might be a good reason for that enchanted feeling. Did you know that trees can communicate underground via their roots, and will even send help if one of their number needs nourishment or is threatened? This is known as the Wood Wide Web and was the concept behind my 2000 novel SPELLFALL, where the trees in my parallel world of Earthaven are gigantic soultrees that bear magical fruit and seeds.
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| Spellfall (first US edition) |
Their root system acts rather like the London Underground, and it's possible to travel around it in living capsules, operated by the trees themselves, known as 'organazoomers'. The soultrees and the Spell Lords who look after them can also use this root system to communicate, much as we might use the internet in our technological world. But that's not the whole story... those who have Earthaven blood, like Spellfall's heroine Natalie and her friend Merlin, can use the fallen seeds of soultrees to cast spells. In Earthaven, spells literally grow on trees! But don't be caught out in the woods at Halloween looking for them, because that's when the Boundary opens and all kinds of creatures can cross from one world into the next, and they are not always friendly unicorns.
If you missed this classic fantasy adventure that was part of the "Children's 76" in America on its first publication, you can download the ebook editions of 'Spellfall' and its sequel 'Spell Spring' all this week for only 99p each.
To download from Amazon for Kindle use links below - only 99p/99c until October 31st
To download for epub readers from the ebook store of your choice use links below - only 99p/99c until October 31st
Both Earthaven books are also available in paperback.