Fellowship of Ink (novel)

Fellowship of Ink was a 2017 novel by Paul Magrs which focused on characters introduced in his 2002 Doctor Who novel Mad Dogs and Englishmen. With Hyspero and the Scarlet Guard playing a part in the narrative and Valcea getting a brief mention, it had connections to all three BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novels written by Magrs, as well as the Iris Wildthyme series.

Much like Magrs' previous novels published by Snowbooks Ltd - Enter Wildthyme, Wildthyme Beyond!, and From Wildthyme with Love - this book brought together concepts from more than just Magrs' Doctor Who work; the character Brenda from the Brenda and Effie series also features heavily in the novel.

The story was mainly set in the town of Darkholmes, which originated from Magrs' own comic story The Housekeeper, published in a 2011 issue of Vworp Vworp! magazine. In the comic, Darkholmes was the town where Nest Cottage was located - which at that point had already featured in Hornets' Nest.

Publisher's summary
The Smudgelings... Professors Reginald Tyler and Henry Cleavis and their various literary friends… little did they know as they gathered on Sunday evenings by the fire to drink sherry and read out chapters from their ongoing fantasy novels that they were wearing thin the fabric of space and time. All around them in the magical, northern university town of Darkholmes there were Holes opening up to other dimensions…

Here we are in the 1930s, in the leafy lanes and lofty towers of an ancient town… where there are witches, demons and gargoyles mixed up with dons and their frustrated wives and handsome boyfriends. And, most mysteriously of all, there is Brenda, the rather strange housemaid to the Tyler household, who is here incognito, for reasons all of her own…

Characters

 * Henry Cleavis
 * John
 * Mr Mack
 * Reginald Tyler
 * Evelyn Tyler
 * Brenda
 * Professor Sneagle
 * Catriona Mackay
 * Mr Tweet
 * Gold Leaf Princess
 * Guido
 * Charles
 * Diodati Jr
 * Dorothea Fisk

Continuity

 * Reginald Tyler, Cleavis, the Smudgelings, and The True History of Planets first appeared in PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
 * John and Cleavis once had an encounter with Mumu Manchu. (PROSE: The Delightful Bag)
 * The Very Fabric of Time and Space is seen. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen et al)
 * Hyspero originates from PROSE: The Scarlet Empress.
 * The "lofty peaks of Valcea" are a location in The True History of Planets. (PROSE: The Blue Angel)
 * Valcea is where Iris Wildthyme, Panda, Simon, and Barbra travelled to in their quest to stop Anthony Marvelle from reaching Hyspero. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme)