You may have come across A. L. Butcher on her blog, Library of Erana. Alexandra is one of the most prolific Indies I know, so I was looking forward to finding out more about her and her work.

The Usual

Hello Alex, good to have you here. What inspired you to write your books?

The first novel – The Light Beyond the Storm Chronicles? It was born from a gaming character, something I’d been working on for a while and a lot of encouragement. I decided to flesh out the character, adapt her to my fantasy world and that was that. The later novels and the short stories have come from the lore of the world. It is a world where magic is forbidden, people are segregated and many enslaved. A tyrannical martial law is imposed, lies and half-truths abound and good and bad are not easily defined. There is a…