Michael Lingaard is in reality Michael Bevan; I am English born, New Zealand raised and Australian domiciled. I try to keep fit, I've played soccer, tennis, touch football and rugby, the proofs of which are in the ever-stiffening joints. I love motorcycles and red wine — not at the same time — and friends and family.
I've done many things in many places; have an engineering background, have worked on major constructions and have owned and operated my own businesses. My wanderings around the world have taken me to many interesting places, however, my imagination has travelled much further and one of the places it has been is detailed in the first book of the Pax Magellanica Trilogy. Magellanica started as a day-dream a few years ago and grew. Slowly. The entire saga is designed for three books and a million words.
That book led on to fantasy and the “what-ifs” that fantasy raises, and there’s a whole different type world out there in fantasyland. So The Other Side of Magik was delved into, followed by the almost-historically correct Jonathon Goode: Honorary Witch. Like Pax Magellanica, these fantasy offerings are the first of a trilogy.
Reading pleasure and entertainment are the aims of this author. I believe that there is a good demand for continuing story-lines or themes in science fiction and fantasy, and a trilogy is an ideal way to carry those ideas. If the characters, the story and the technology are correct and interesting; if the magic has an explanation to it that is almost believable, they will warrant three books before the subject is exhausted.
At the moment I do not have an agent, but I have had great reviews and awards for some of my works and as the two fantasy books submitted are the first of trilogies, there's a lot more to do.
