Reveal of Book One of the Môrdreigiau Chronicles
Cover, blurbage, book trailer, it's all here...
First some important dates:
February 3, 2024: The “fourth wall” goes up and the play begins aka this entire newsletter becomes fictional. I’ll reintroduce myself as the fictional lover of antiques. (I actually do love antiques, so don’t worry about my level of acting chops. I’m not going to be digging too deeply into the one year of Drama I did at uni.)
February 11, 2024: The first few instalments of the “discovered diary” aka the novel will be posted.
There are 25-ish instalments. Somebody else can do that math as to when we run out, but somewhere in June, I’m guessing. Hopefully by then book two will be ready to be revealed.
The plan is to introduce each diary entry in video … so you can see the page and where it was stashed and then onto the text we go. If you’re here for the text only, you can skip the video.
Thoughts, theories, reactions are all welcome in the comments and in the chat. I might try to do something a smidge more organised in the chat but we shall see.
Now let’s watch the book trailer I made!
It is 1814. History will say the Napoleonic Wars are drawing to a close, but in reality, a new history is just beginning…
A Grail for Eidothea, the first in the Môrdreigiau Chronicles.
“My journal is gone, burned…”
Miss Eidothea Pendyr is content to live on the isolated western Welsh coast until a wounded man washes up on her beach. In tending him, she has a vision of the future: the world’s ecology has completely collapsed. The ocean has died, including all life within it, and life on land is fading quickly. The sea dragons, the dreigiau môr, a magical race almost forgotten by humans, have gone extinct. Humanity’s demise is close behind.
Eidothea is catapulted into taking up her mother’s quest to find the Greal1, last loaned to Arthur Pendragon by the dreigiau môr. Her cause is much larger: she is the longed-for prophet that will help prevent the world’s collapse.
The wounded man, Llyr, is draig môr, a sea dragon, and becomes her guide through dreigiau môr society and her partner in preventing her vision coming true. He is an adventurer at heart. He is almost always in dragon form, exploring the seas.
But Eidothea is not the only one seeking the Greal. Like Eidothea, Jasper Tregallas is part draig môr. He is considered inferior by his family because of his human mother. His family want the Greal for themselves. Jasper has been searching for it to finally gain his family’s approval.
Can Eidothea trust him despite his vocal support for her cause? Will she succeed in finding the Greal and change the future?
I have chosen to use the Welsh word for grail. Don’t worry, there will be a glossary!
Oh my goodness, Leanne. This is fabulous. I had some hint of amount of work and thought you’d put into creating this world from your early posts, but this is exceptional. I’m so looking forward to reading. Congratulations!
Oh, my, goodness, this is soooo much fun!