“It just gave me such a wider base to build off of,” he said. Gillingham said it was nice to have his characters and their world already established going into Book 2. “So I was really happy to be able to finish this book and I’m glad it’s coming out because this is the story I originally set out to tell.” “As I started writing I realized I hadn’t introduced enough of the world and enough of the characters,” he said. He said “sometimes you’ve got to write a book to open up a world and let people inside.” The Gatewatch started off as a prologue that Gillingham decided to expand into a novel of its own. The Everspring follows the events of Gillingham’s 2020 debut, The Gatewatch, but it’s the story he wanted to tell first. The book, inspired by Norse myths and Icelandic sagas, follows troll hunter Torin Ten-Trees and his companions as they search for a cure for their king’s mysterious illness by journeying to the titular spring, the source of all the world’s rivers. 4, Gillingham unveils The Everspring at an in-person book launch at Well Read Books and he’s holding a virtual event through Vancouver Island Regional Library on Nov. With the second book in his trilogy, Nanaimo fantasy writer Joshua Gillingham is finally telling the story he wanted to tell all along.
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