Why The SIN Series?

I have spent many years planning this series and perfecting the story to be what it is today.

Today, I feel inspired to share with you where the SIN Series began and how it all came about. The creative journey, if you will.

It began with a thunderstorm, of all things, when I was 15 years old and entering a tumultuous time in my life.

When I was 15, my life had been turned upside down and I found myself destabalized and uncertain of the future. I had no dream, no direction and no idea why I was here or what I was meant to do.

As detailed in my About Section of this site, I did not grow up in 'normal' circumstances and have unfortunately had many traumas and hardships. Sometimes, that gets on top of you, especially when you are a teenage girl in a chaotic environment.

This was happening to me. A deep and profound loneliness that was taking hold and making me feel more isolated than ever before.

On day, I was simply lieing in bed and pondering life, feeling all the above while the beginning of a storm was brewing outside my window. Caught up in the swirling and chaotic emotions, I didn't realise a storm was brewing until a boom of thunder shook the windows of the house and made me physically jump.

With the curtains open, I could see the deep grey of the storm and the beginning of the rain that pattered the roof and drew my attention away from my internal strife.

One would think this was the perfect setting for my emotional state at the time, like any movie that uses rain and storms to emote for the character. And yet, this storm drew me out of myself and over to the window to watch the rain and lightening split the skies.

That is when I had a sudden vision pop into my mind, vivid images of great beings of light and power having a conversation in the skies about a coming war and how they would fair in the coming days.

No sooner had this vision appeared, it ended, leaving me breathless and a little alarmed at what I had envisioned. It was the first time I felt a compulsion to write the images I had seen in my mind for years, and within moments nearly 1000 words appeared on an A3 page of one of my art books about the encounter.

To this day, I still have no idea what prompted the vivid imagery of angels speaking in the skies, especially as my family are not religious by any means. But it certainly left its mark on me.

Over the 15 years since that day, the story has grown and transformed into a living thing that exists 24/7 in my mind, as real to me as my own friends and family. It has changed many times, growing and adapting with my own experience as I grew older.

Now, I am ready to share this universe with you.

Thunderstorms have always had a catalystic effect for me (don't know why I am just realising this now!), perhaps I will do a blog post on that.

But for now, enjoy the Prologue and goodies you can find on this site.

I have a novel to write :D