TMC November Digest & What's Coming in December
Here's what happened at The Môrdreigiau Chronicles in the month of November
I have a big announcement about a new serial coming in 2025. Keep reading to find out more!
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Fiction Released
A River Trembles
Book 2 of The Môrdreigiau Chronicles continued with Chapter 11 through 15.
Other Fiction
Episode 3 of Hiraeth, complete with illustrations.
Retrospective on A Grail for Eidothea
For you who are newer to The Môrdreigiau Chronicles, I’ve been restacking chapters of the first book in the Notes section of the Substack app. Here’s what’ll be re-stacked in December should you wish to keep up.
To start at the beginning, you can begin here:
Non-Fiction
And I wrote a little thing about being creative while at a book celebration this past month. Beth Knight has written a lovely book of poems called Fireweed Festival. She gave us this prompt to write about.
What’s Ahead in December
(Reminder that these are Aussie dates.)
“Gold Dust Woman”, episode four of Hiraeth will be posted on Wednesday, December 4.
A winter solstice story set at some point and time in The Môrdreigiau Chronicles universe (
has come out with a new Prompt Quest). It will be posted on Monday, December 9. It will feature the characters from the new serial coming in 2025. So it is a sneaky peek, as it were.Stay tuned for an
Advent12 Days of ChristmasEnd of the Western Calendar Year surprise. (It might get a sexier title. Suggestions welcome…)We head down the research rabbit hole that resulted from writing “The Battle for Mother’s Sea-Rice Cakes” (short story in The Red Book of Rhiannon).
A River Trembles continues on Saturdays—oh and the chapter about the summer solstice? It’s happening on the southern hemisphere’s summer solstice. I couldn’t have planned that better!
In 2025, A New Serial Is Coming …
A new serial set in The Môrdreigiau Chronicles universe will begin.
Blurb and more details (such as posting schedule) to come next month, but if you’ve ever wondered why there hasn’t been a Chosen Court from 450-ish CE until 1814 CE, this will provide part of the answer.
I’m not sure as yet whether it will start in February, or later in the year because this Story Has Opinions on how it should end. (I’m disagreeing but trying to keep an open mind.) It might be two parts (of 6 episodes each), it might be three parts, or these characters might return on a quarterly basis. Who knows? I certainly don’t.
I’m madly in love with the characters, and I cannot wait to share them with you but I need to figure out what kind of end point we’re looking at here before I start posting this.
I know it’s not much more than a title and an infinitesimally small clue as to the story, but are you excited? I’d love to hear from you.
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