Book Two Start Date Announcement!

plus a Full Flip Through of Eidothea's Journal and a readers poll!

To give you all a chance to catch up and/or binge read (link to all the chapters here!), I’m scheduling a few posts between now and … ooh, keep reading, my friends, I’ll share the launch date further down. (Bwahahaha)

First, here’s the full flip through of Eidothea’s diary. This is a compilation of all the snippets I shared during A Grail for Eidothea. I’ve uploaded it to YouTube and hello if you found me from that site!

Hope you enjoyed that!

Ok, now the moment you’ve all been waiting for…

Book two, A River Trembles, launches on August 31st!

It could have been a week earlier, except that would butt against the start of Hiraeth over at Stardust Press (have you subscribed over there yet?), so I needed a little bit of a gap between the two so you have plenty of time to read both of them.

As book two is the cobbling together of various documents, I had to come up with a title like I do for each weekly instalment. The title of book two is from a poem by Khalil Gibran entitled “Fear”. Here’s the whole poem (as it seems to be in public domain):

It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that’s where the river will know
it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.

The poem is absolute perfection in describing what happens to our main character and I won’t say anything more than that.

This book is also longer than A Grail for Eidothea, coming in at 39 chapters instead of 24. Those chapters are longer too, otherwise it would take us an additional month to read it.

Now a poll. I am curious about how you’re getting on with reading A Grail for Eidothea because I really wanted to start A River Trembles directly afterward but it proved a whole lot more complicated than translating one diary. Is the break a positive thing for you, the reader?

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