STEPH WILLIAMS
Steph has a BA (Hons) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Literature and Creative Writing. She writes under the pen name of Boo Irwin and is currently working on the Winterdale Chronicles, a selection of young adult novels based in the town of Winterdale which have a supernatural theme.
Illustration by Glynn White
Blurb for the latest Winterdale Chronicle
Mollica & the W.I.T.C.H.E.S.
When Mollica's mother loses her job at the Pieces of Art Gallery they are forced to sell their small apartment and move the town of Winterdale to live with her eccentric Grandmother.
Veronica Gwain at first sight is a doddering old woman with a large collection of unreturned library books and too many cats, but soon Mollica discovers that there is more to her Grandmother than meets the eye. Veronica Gwain is one of the legendary Winterdale Witches.
The Winterdale Witches were started by thee sisters over four hundred years ago.One of the sisters, Morgan Bouvoir was so corrupted by the dark magic that she practiced that she became obsessed with power. In order to ensure that she was the most powerful witch she summoned the Witch Finder General to Winterdale and had her sister's burned at the stake. For generations the art of magic has passed through the descendants of the three sisters and has been shared with any likeminded females who wished to practice it, thereby ensuring that there was always a Coven i the small town.
Mollica learns that the Gwain family magic skips a generation and that she is the next in line to inherit her Grandmother's skills. As she struggles to come to terms with his new responsibility Winterdale is once again to be visited by the Witch Finder General.
The Glass Cauldron is stolen from Winterdale Museum. It is the very cauldron that was originally used to summon the Witch Finder General to Winterdale and in the very bottom remained a small part of the spell which originally brought him there. When a dark mysterious figure arrives in the dead of night and checks into Winterdale Hall, the local hotel, Veronica warns her grand-daughter that being a witch has just become the most dangerous calling of all.
The second in the Winterdale Chronicles - for information on Lily & the G.H.O.S.T. check out Steph's website.