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Angie Sage is the author of the Septimus Heap series. She is also the illustrator and/or writer of many children's books, and is the new writer of the Araminta Spook series.
Sage grew up in Thames Valley, London and Kent. She first studied medicine, but changed her mind and went to Art School in Leicester. There she studied Graphic Design and Illustration. She began illustrating books after college. Then she progressed to writing children stories, including toddler books and chapter books.
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You have written many picture books and chapter books for
children. What was it that inspired this, your first novel, Septimus Heap?
I have had the character of Septimus in my head for a long
time- and the world he lived in too. I knew Septimus was someone who was in a
strange and hostile world who did not have a clue about who he really was. But t
was only when Marcia suddenly jumped into the picture that the story began to
happen. She was so bossy and just insisted that I had to keep on writing – and
you don't say no to Marcia.
When you began writing, did you know what would happen
to Septimus, or did the story and the characters unfold as you wrote?
I knew what would happen to Septimus in the end, but I did
not know exactly how he would get there, or who he would meet on the way. That's
the exciting thing about writing the world that he lives in - so many creatures
and people just appear and make things happen.
Tell us a little more about the world you have created –
the Castle, the Port, the Forest, the Marshes … is any of it based on places
you know and love?
The whole slightly off-the-wall feeling of the place comes
from living in Cornwall, England!
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