Hi, as you can see, I haven’t blogged in a while and this post will be a detour from my usual blog posts about locations that have inspired my writing.
I have been busy writing my stories and I’m excited to share with you my fantasy romance novels that are coming up.

They are a bit different from my Community Chronicles Series, which is set in a possible future Scotland after a worldwide disaster that changed everything.
This fantasy romance trilogy entitled Arlan’s Pledge, is set in two worlds: Scotland in 2016, and a fantasy world, Dál Cruinne, which is a Gaelic older type world with clansman warriors and sages, high kings and mages, set in their time 6083 years after their Dragon Wars.

But what about my characters and their story?

Arlan, second son of the high king of this world, is running from his destiny. Rhiannon, a retrenched librarian in our world, is trying to find hers. And it’s a fantasy romance… So, you can guess… They must cross paths somehow… But how?

I’m really excited to be getting on with publishing this after working on it plus the two other books in the series for the past almost four years.
My ‘cartographer’ is converting my scribbles of a map of Dál Cruinne into a digital masterpiece to place in the front of the books.

And the first book, The Crossing, will soon be off to the editor. I can’t wait to share this story with you. An earlier manuscript has made the finals in the OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction. And I’ve just heard a very early manuscript of the second book, The Quest, has placed in the Top Ten of Ink & Insights 2021 Competition.

I’ve also just started another story in the world of Dál Cruinne. A different part of this world and different characters.
Watch this space. I’ll try to keep you up to date (when I’m not too distracted by writing it).