Fan Fiction

Here are the entries in the ‘Change the Spook’s World competition’. I really enjoyed reading them! The quality of writing was great and some vivid imagination on display. We would like you to share more of your fan fiction and invite you to send us any writing or drawings that you have done and we will post them here. Send to josephdelaneyauthor@gmail.com

The Seventh Spook’s Apprentice by Haji Muhammad

The Seventh Apprentice It’s a dangerous job, being a spook’s apprentice. I had often wondered if I was actually cut […]

The Last Apprentice Halloween Jack-o-lantern

These are from Ben Hoffman. Pumpkin carving of Grimalkins scissors.

Circe by Lee-Mei

My granddaughter Lee-Mei drew this for me. I love it.

She Spook by Dillon Watson

Fan art by Iris Taylor

Alice Deane had never met Tom Ward by Kody Reavis

It was nearing the end of a chilly morning. My apprentice, Mr. Ward, and I, had finished a somewhat decent […]

Fan art by Rebekah Getz

I am Not Grimalkin – Ethan Hoffman

My pointy shoes pounded on the leaf strewn ground as I ran through the woods. The wind whipped my hair […]

Luke

Entry 1: The cellar was situated far below the living quarters of the house. I obediently followed Grimalkin down the […]

Harry Lofthouse

I could feel the warm sweat seeping out of my skin, dampening my clothes as I tried to hold my […]

Kosie Pienaar

He sat down at his desk, made of the old Dark oak tree that used to loom above his Fortress, […]

Emily Critchley

Alice and Tom awoke in a heap on a cold stone floor. Clutching his bag and staff he asked “Alice, […]

If you want to be a writer, keep a notebook. You need to jot down every idea for a story that comes into your head. Don’t think to censor your ideas either! The idea is new and you are too close to it to judge its value. Ten years later it may strike you in a totally different way. I estimate that out of every thirty ideas I jotted down into my notebooks, twenty-nine proved to be worthless. The thirtieth had the potential to be developed into a novel or short story. The bad news was that quite often I found out that somebody had written something similar already!