TMC Monthly Digest for October 2024
Here's what happened at The Môrdreigiau Chronicles in the month of October
Welcome to the first monthly digest!
For newish subscribers, I’ll be adding a Retrospective section. We’ll be going through A Grail for Eidothea. I’ll explain more below, but hopefully, it’ll help you catch up!
For everyone else, this digest will be broken out by Fiction and Non-Fiction as well as giving you a preview of what’s to come this month. I’m aiming to post these on or near the first of the month.
Keep reading to the end for a poll regarding new fiction and don’t forget to give your feedback on this new feature of The Môrdreigiau Chronicles!
And surprise, surprise, this post is too long for email, so if you don’t see my signature all the way at the end, click on the “View in Browser” link at the top of this email.
Future digests will also contain “Behind the Curtain” posts so if you’d like to remain wholly within the world of the Chronicles, you might want to update your settings. I explained that here:
Fiction
October is a snapshot of how The Môrdreigiau Chronicles was, before we throw some non-fiction writing into the mix.
A River Trembles
Book two of The Môrdreigiau Chronicles continued with chapters 7 through 10.
Other Fiction
In future digests, short stories will land here in addition to the monthly serial of Hiraeth.
Retrospective on A Grail for Eidothea
In November, I will be “restacking” the first five chapters from A Grail for Eidothea. If you are new to this publication and use the app, hopefully they will pop up in Notes as a reminder for you to dig in. If you’re the email only sort, or you can’t wait, here are the first five chapters, starting with the introduction.
What’s Ahead for November
(Reminder that these are Aussie dates.)
A River Trembles continues on Saturdays
“Alone”, episode three of Hiraeth will be posted on Wednesday, November 6. It will be loaded with my own illustrations!
Author’s Notes on “Alone” will post the day after.
I’ll look back on the writing process of A River Trembles and how it radically changed. This will be shared on November 13.
Future Writings
Two new stories are coming from The Red Book of Rhiannon.
If you’re up-to-date on A River Trembles, you’ve met Emrys ap Cynfelyn, the Esteemed “caretaker king” of Caer Morgana. He’s the hero of a romantic short story.
There is another, longer story that I will probably have to break into many parts (possibly as many as 10?), and here’s where I will need your help. I think it’s too much to have two serials running weekly on two different days of the week, but on the other hand, I am happily reading multiple serials on Substack and watching two different Dramas on Viki/Netflix, so I need your feedback on what you’d prefer.
If you answered the Weekly option instead of book two, A River Trembles, are you willing to wait until the end of the book (scheduled to finish sometime in May 2025) or should I find a suitable stopping point in book two (you know it’ll be a cliffhanger, and there are more than a few in to come in this serial!)? Let me know!
I have posts cued up for Behind the Curtain to talk about the research rabbit hole behind September’s “The Battle for Mother’s Sea-rice Cakes” as well as what to do about having too many writing ideas.
Thanks for reading all the way through. I’d love your feedback on this digest and its contents. You can reply to this email or hop onto the app (if you aren’t already reading this there) and comment away!
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