![]() Faeries are in my blood, or at least Ireland is. ![]() “I came at it wanting to write about Irish magic, and figuring it out as I went. “I did not come at this as an expert,” he says. ![]() As he dug into tales of faeries, magic and their interplay with Biblical stories, Tompkins found the kernel of what would become “The Last Days of Magic” - that the myths were true and the magic was real. He published some poems, took up photography and landed a few pieces in museums, but writing a novel remained what he calls “the holy grail.”Įight years ago, intrigued by the Irish legend of Red Mary - who is said to have married and killed 25 of her husbands - he went to Ireland to immerse himself in the country’s folklore and mythology. “So you have fewer words to check and if you get it wrong people think you did it on purpose.” “Poetry is bad grammar raised to an art form,” he laughs. He stuck with the hard sciences in high school, avoided English classes through college, and went into a career as an entrepreneur and real estate investor. ![]() Tompkins, 55, has been a voracious reader since childhood, but was discouraged from writing as a kid because he’s dyslexic. This is the story of how “The Last Days of Magic” went from workshop dud to bookstores nationwide. ![]()
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