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Meet the characters of my upcoming novel!

Who’s Who: Mikalai Gloucester

Gloucester is the main character of The Winding, a disgraced security agent with a bone to pick and a mystery to solve. Things aren’t going well for him at the beginning of the story, where we find him glumly staring up at the ceiling of his prison cell: he’s lost his job, his freedom, his home, his boyfriend and even seemingly his memory, as he can’t for the life of him remember the crime for which he’s been imprisoned.

The life of a bodyguard suited Gloucester, who is the sort of person accustomed to fading into the background and even prefers it that way. Though clever and funny, he’s also shy and quite uncomfortable in the spotlight. He certainly didn’t ask to be caught up in the middle of a brewing war between the powers that run the city of Frettchen and a world of magic he never even knew existed. He doesn’t like to run from a fight, though, especially when standing up against the odds is the right thing to do.

Oddly, of almost all of the characters in The Winding and its sequels, Gloucester was one of the most recent to be conceived in my mind. Many of the supporting cast had been bouncing around my brain in one form or another for years, but the story itself didn’t really come together until this quietly sassy fellow showed up in a dream one night, along with a basic plot that would become The Winding.

I have the best partner ever <3

Did I drop my sketchbook facedown while working with ink? Yes. Is that going to stop me from posting this picture I drew of Gloucester, the main character from @aliiveswrites book The Winding that is coming out October first and is available for preorder through @literary__wanderlust ‘s website?? 😏 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg0di-3M0z5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“You want to save the life of the guy [...] who probably wants you dead... who you talk about like thinking of him leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Gloucester, has anyone ever told you that you’re a little weird?”

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6 DAYS until The Winding is out and you get to meet Mikalai Gloucester!

some colourful Winding sketches from a little while back

a Riz Ahmed-inspired Gloucester, because Ballister in the movie version of Nimona has strong Gloucester energy :)

"I'm learning to just accept things and not think about them too hard."

Get reacquainted with Mikalai Gloucester! No longer a man on the run, but definitely still a man on a mission. Specifically, a mission to stop an angry demigod from destroying the world.

My book The Ticking, book 2 in The Epitome of Science trilogy, will be out January 1st, 2024!

Pre-Order from the Publisher Bookshop (ebook will be available on the date of release) - Pre-Order it through a North American indie bookshop

Epitome of Science sketches (featuring a sneaky peek at someone introduced in Book 3)