Battling On...

April 12, 2022 

Not feeling too well of late, but I am trying my best to battle on through with the writing of my conclusion to my Solstice series.


Still, there was a little peace to be found in the garden 😎

🥺

April 09, 2022

I never thought I would see this again. Indeed, until I saw all my bandages and cotton gloves hanging out to dry on our garden washing line, I had forgotten that this was a normal sight during my childhood eczema days. After 50 odd years of topical and oral steroid use battling this condition, it's the turn of TSW to decimate my well being. And I am still a long way down the queue to see a specialist 🤕


 

Solstice -a morning well spent

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

I spent the morning crafting the opening paragraph in the fourth and final story in the folk horror portmanteau novel Solstice. Oh, and the tale now has its own title - Shiver.

Current Reading...

 I am currently reading two books. One is the graphic novel Maus, which is particularly grim reading. Given the state of the planet at the moment, I can't see a better time for the world to read this book and perhaps stop history repeat itself:


The second book is by the enigmatic author Eric Ericson. I have enjoyed his earlier novels, The Sorcerer (excellent) and The Woman Who Slept With Demons (a good read). I am only a couple of chapters into The Master of the Temple but, judging by its fascinating introduction, I think I am going to enjoy this book.


On the subject of Eric Ericson, he appears to be a very elusive author. I, and many other readers have tried to find some info on the writer. So far, we have all been unsuccessful.  If anyone reading this has any info, please get in touch and let me know. Thanks.

Shed Doors

I love the colour of my shed door, so much so that I got round the thinking, if one door look so good, imagine having two doors on the garden building...

Shed door details



Getting to work...


Our new faerie door in situ



Enchanting, eh?

Solstice Continues...

March 26, 2022


It looks like my hope for renewed creativity, mentioned in my self-pity post the other day, has been granted. Sat out in the garden today, without a clue how I was going to bring the book to a conclusion, I started the final story in my Solstice series of stories afresh.

The new version of the finale of this portmanteau novel addresses the main problem I had with the conclusion that I previously could not quite square.

Whilst, as mentioned in my previous post, I will have topostpone the publication date of Pagan Stone, I feel confident again thatI should be able to keep to the Solstice publication deadline. 😊