About Lucy Magicmaker
Lucy Magicmaker was born in The South Hams in South Devon in 1967. Born Devonian, and ancestrally Cornish, she has a strong bond to the energy and landscape of The West Country of Great Britain. After spending most of her life working for American Corporations, and travelling extensively to many lands far and wide, she returned to Devon & Cornwall with the belief that "less might well be more ?" Settling herself down in the beautiful landscape of The South Hams, she now spends her time writing, and paddling in the sea with her little dog, Beatrice. Slowly, but steadily, Lucy has built a miniature mouse-sized company she can call her own. Quietly, chipping away, she's become a writer, illustrator and self-publisher of a series of Marmalade the Mouse books. With a firm belief that "You make it happen ! You make your wishes come true !", her new life has begun ...
The Story of Marmalade the Mouse and His Jammy Adventure is the first book in Marmalade the Mouse's Great British Series. First published in 2011, The Jammy Adventure is set on the River Dart in South Devon, England. "This is where I was born. It helped enormously to set my first book in a place I know very well," said Lucy.
The second book in Marmalade the Mouse's Great British Series is based in Cornwall, Lucy's ancestral homeland ... a place very close to her heart. "The Cornish Adventure means so much to me. The story is dedicated to my ancestors, the Trewarthas of Gwithian, who've been living in Cornwall since records began," said Lucy. "This is the book that helped me to realise, I want to write FUN HISTORY for children ... SNEAKILY DISGUISED as an exciting mouse story."
The third book in the Marmalade the Mouse Great British Series is The London Adventure ... a 5,000 year history of London, set amidst a romping story involving Marmalade and a very SPOILED royal corgi called Rupert. The Story of Marmalade the Mouse and his London Adventure' was written and ready to print. However, a global pandemic drove Lucy and her little dog to the allotment for quite a few years, where they learned a great deal about growing vegetables and fruits ! The Royal corgi and The London Adventure was put into a drawer, where it still remains ... tucked out of sight.
In the allotment, further mouse books were drafted, illustrations were drawn, ideas came and went, editing was considered, and all kinds of things occured ... until the ponderings culminated in a realisation that Lucy had been making mice and writing mouse stories since she was five years old ! It was Spring 2023, and Lucy was then 55 years old. She decided to celebrate with a show at a local art centre entitled, 'A 50-Year Retrospective Of Mouse Making', which was like nothing the art centre had ever seen before !
Lucy followed 'The Retrospective' with a weekly pop-up book signing at a local market. Well, one thing led to another and it wasn't long before Lucy opened her very own shop and mouse-making studio in the beautiful seaside town of Dartmouth in South Devon, near to where she was born. And this brings us up-to-date. It is now Spring 2025 and an epic 'Dartmoor Adventure' is on the way ... a book which "may well supersede all previous mouse books in the series. I want to go back to the beginning," said Lucy. "The VERY beginning ... to a time of erupting volcanos, ice-ages and dinosaurs ... and the very creation of mice themselves !"
In between teaching mouse-making workshops, and writing 'The Dartmoor Adventure', plus learning how to animate her own mini-mouse movies, Lucy and her little dog, Beatrice, still find the time to paddle in the sea and grow their vegetables. Excited for all the future holds ...
Lucy Magicmaker's message is ... "YOU make it happen ! YOU make your wish come true !"