Forty Years in the Making
Timothy M. Halliday has carried and shaped The Saga of Black Wings for around forty years. This is not a world made overnight, nor a story built quickly from spare parts. It is a lifetime of imagination, emotion, memory, myth, humour, grief, loyalty, animals, wounds, roads, houses, ravens, wolves, roots, crowns and stubborn hope.
What began as private imagination grew over decades into a vast fantasy saga: a living world of characters, odes, songs, battles, laws, beasts, hidden families, old magic, dangerous roads and places that remember more than they should.
Forty years in the making. One saga still unfolding.
The Saga in His Bones
The books reflect the life around them: good and bad times, sadness and happiness, grief and joy, past and present animals, friends, neighbours, strangers, old wounds, bright absurdities, and the difficult work of surviving without becoming what hurt you.
The saga blends epic fantasy, folklore, emotional realism, mythic violence, humour, poetry, odes, runes, spirit beasts and ancient law. It moves through crowns, roots, roads, houses, ash, refusal, love, betrayal and the deep living power of place.
The world of Black Wings is dark at times, but it is not built only from darkness. It is also built from laughter, friendship, animal humour, stubborn tenderness, beautiful landscapes, impossible courage and the warmth of those who choose to stand beside one another when the world becomes cruel.
A Personal Epic
Timothy’s fiction is deeply personal. The saga carries echoes of life itself: good and bad times, grief and joy, pain and laughter, past and present animals, friends, neighbours, strangers, places and moments that leave their mark.
Across the books, those echoes become marshes, roads, houses, ravens, wolves, hounds, leopards, roots, fires, oaths and bloodlines. Real feeling becomes invented legend. Private endurance becomes myth. A lifetime of thought and imagination becomes a black-winged road.
After writing in secret for much of his life, Timothy is now preparing The Saga of Black Wings for readers beyond the locked room. The result is both invented fantasy and personal testament: a long, strange, emotional, funny, fierce and unforgettable saga that refused to die.
T.M.H · Saga of Black Wings