
Making of Ara
In 2008 I began working on ideas for a fantasy book. Ara was born. A girl with one eye. Bound to The League of Witches. Compelled to do their bidding and carry out missions of questionable moral quantity.
I wrote the script for the first book (or Tome as we call it in France) and with the help of David Chauvel, my editor and collaborator, got it translated and published by Ankama in 2011.
Book 1: A Circle of Stone, follows Ara into the Green Sea. An endless forest. Where she is placed against a long dormant spirit. Forced to divine the hidden nature of her mission, she must also seek the true character of her companions Senn and Muluk.
Below are some of the early concepts I did while developing the book.