With the first draft of Stag Rider nearly finished, and a few months of editing ahead before submitting to agents, my thoughts edge toward Earth Guardians book three. While you’ll find the series in the fiction section of a book shop, everything I write about is experiential. Preparation begins with a vision quest this summer – To be alone in Nature for four days and nights. To eat nothing. To drink only water and open up to the elements. ‘To quest is to honour a fallow time in our spiritual lives. An emptiness into which something utterly new and generative might enter….’