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SEPTIMUS HEAP
by Angie Sage
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Fast Facts
- According to Angie Sage, although she had been thinking about Septimus Heap for a while, it was only after she began to imagine bossy Marcia that the story started to take shape.
- Sage based her characters' travels through the marshes on a canoe trip she took along the smallest branches of a creek near her home.
- Family relationships are very important in the Septimus Heap trilogy.
- The word "septimus" means "seven" --- which is appropriate since Septimus Heap is the seventh son of the seventh son.
- There are 49 chapters in MAGYK and FLYTE (49 divided by 7=7).
- If you add the numbers in "Boy 412" (4+1+2), the sum is 7.
- When Sage has difficulty writing a scene, she sometimes writes up diagrams and lists, or eats chocolate, but she says leaving it alone for a while seems to work best.
- One of Sage's roommates from long ago may be the inspiration for Marcia Overstrand.
- Sage feels that her characters' names (and the color of their shoes!) are very important.
- One of Sage's favorite things about being an author is hearing from readers who have enjoyed her books.
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