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Because like me, you love finding the extraordinary hidden inside the dusty and discarded. You long for adventure and romance of times past.
Also, no AI used was in the making of this serial: not writing, grammar checking, image creation. My images are either my own, or have come from Canva (where I have used a couple of CGI images that I’ll be avoiding henceforward (May 2025)) or Unsplash.
What This Is About
Recently, I found this old trunk in my attic. I started this publication to share all that I find within it. Spoiler: the first find is a diary from 1814. It’s magical. It’s full of hidden journaling and talks about sea dragons, or dreigiau môr.
I share one instalment a week from this first journal and from subsequent books in this antique trove of documents to type up and share!
I might best describe this diary as a Regency-era Arthurian quest to avoid ecological collapse, with sea dragons.
If that sounds like a writer’s elevator pitch, you’d be correct. Until the 3rd February 2024 I wrote all about my writing process, but now ...
The Môrdreigiau Chronicles begins with A Grail for Eidothea
continues with A River Trembles
Still to come are A Sword for Wellington and A Soul for the World.
Short stories set in The Môrdreigiau Chronicles universe can be found in The Red Book of Rhiannon:
Obsidian and Flame occurs before A Grail for Eidothea and involves a sea dragon prince with a deadly secret, and his reluctant friend who cannot activate her gift. Of course, they must save their home, Caer Morgana, but are they too late?
Getting to read these journals and letters inspired me to write my own serial, Hiraeth, published monthly, about the Chosen Court that disappeared while on a quest to find a second home for the dreigiau môr.
Future serials include an Arthurian tale with the working title After Isolde.
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Who Am I?
I am an artist, a writer, and I love poking around in antique shops.
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