Tag: folk music

Song of the Week

Darby DeVon, “The Knight at Dublin Castle”

Hello! It’s Monday again.

First and most importantly: on Sunday (the 16th), I’ll be accompanying Brooke and her Figuratively Speaking Tarot to the What the Hex Summer Witches’ Market! It will be at Dresden Castle: 3775 E Underwood Ave, Cudahy, WI. Admission is free, and the doors will be open from noon until 6, and there will be mermaids. Here’s a link to the Facebook event if that’s where you like to keep track of things. I have been moving HEAVEN and EARTH to get enough copies of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea in time for you! I hope to see you there!

In the meantime, I’ll have a new chapter of Journey to the Water up on Patreon tomorrow, and the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door will be here Wednesday. Also, I am halfway through the Great Reread of New Moon Door. I’m hoping to finish that before the end of the month and make some structural changes in preparation for a Great Rewrite in August.

Thanks for being here! Have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Rhiannon Giddens, “O Love Is Teasin'” (Traditional)

Hello! Happy Monday! I hope you’re well on this fine morning.

ETA: Happy Juneteenth! I didn’t realize what day it was.

I regret to inform you that there will be a minor disruption to the normal posting schedule. Between travel and recovery from travel, last week got away from me, and this week looks similarly busy between my cats’ annual checkups and several home improvement projects. There won’t be a new chapter of Journey to the Water this week, but the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door will be up here on Wednesday. I should have a new Journey chapter ready by next week, so your regularly scheduled nonsense will resume shortly. I’ll also have an update on New Moon Door‘s editing progress soon.

As always, thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Orville Peck, “Big Sky”

Good morning!

Firstly, I am happy to announce that The Book of the New Moon Door is complete! I am the proverbial day late and a dollar short, of course, but it’s done. Final word count for all three parts, including chapter headings, is 170,764. This will probably change significantly as I go through the editing process this summer. New Moon Door has been the least structured of my serial novels (which is a gentle way of saying “I was definitely making this up as I went”), and I’m looking forward to pruning it into shape.

This week, I’ll have a new chapter of Journey to the Water on Patreon tomorrow, and the latest chapter of New Moon Door will be up here on the blog Wednesday.

As of right now, here’s the plan for all my projects going forward: Journey and New Moon Door will continue their biweekly schedule while I’m editing New Moon Door. I’m aiming to publish New Moon Door this year and Journey next year. In between those, I want to revisit The Well Below the Valley and The Tarot of the Gates, possibly rewriting and reformatting the former before writing some new content for it.

I’ll keep you updated as things progress! Thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Daniel Hart, “Blome Swete Lilie Flour” (from The Green Knight)

Happy Monday!

It’s a holiday, so just a quick note. Tomorrow: The Book of the New Moon Door on Patreon; Wednesday: Journey to the Water here on the blog. Also on Wednesday, the May edition of the newsletter will go out around noon Central time, so make sure you’re signed up before then if you haven’t already!

I hope you’re enjoying your day. I appreciate you!

Song of the Week

Tom Morello, “16 Tons” (American folk song)

Good morning! Here’s a song with a lot of history.

I’m banging out the end of The Book of the New Moon Door this week! I’ll also have a new chapter of Journey to the Water on Patreon tomorrow, and the latest chapter of New Moon Door will appear here on Wednesday.

It’s getting toward the end of the month, so I have to plug my newsletter–don’t forget to sign up if you haven’t already! I send it only once a month, and it has writing and publishing updates as well as pictures of my garden and my cats. Put your email into the box at this link and then check your inbox for a confirmation link.

There won’t be a new episode of The Well Below the Valley out this month/June 1st, as I’m focusing all my writing time on finishing New Moon Door and staying on top of Journey. I’ll be getting back to it soon.

I think that’s all for this week. I think I promised some garden pictures last week and then forgot? So I’ll try to post some this week.

As always, I appreciate you! Stop by again soon.

Song of the Week

Kate Rusby, “The Witch of the Westmorland”

Good morning!

Unfortunately, I was sick all last week and wasn’t able to write a new chapter of Journey to the Water, so this week we’ll just have the latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door up here on Wednesday. Sorry for the delay; I’ll be back on my usual nonsense next week.

Also, we are very close to the end of Part Two of The Book of the New Moon Door! I’ll be starting Part Three very shortly, but I wanted to ask you, dear reader: would you rather keep reading chapters every other week, or wait until the book is finished and published? I’ll be posting an official poll later this week, but you can also leave your thoughts in the comments.

Thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Kostia Konstantinoff, “Sand and Water”

Good morning!

This album was a staple of my childhood, and based on the half-remembered image of a violin on the cover and something resembling the names of a couple of tracks, I finally found it again. The internet can be pretty great sometimes.

Normal chapter posting this week: The Book of the New Moon Door on Patreon tomorrow, and Journey to the Water here on Wednesday.

As a bonus, I’ll be posting an old short story (flash fiction, really) on Friday! I figured we could all use a break from the longer projects. Stop back again soon!

As always, thanks for being here, and have an excellent week.

Song of the Week

Sufjan Stevens, “Casimir Pulaski Day”

Happy Monday! Sometimes you just need a good, cathartic cry, and if that’s a time you’re experiencing, please enjoy this song.

This week’s Patreon chapter of Journey to the Water will likely be a day or so late, due in equal parts to my poor time management and my husband injuring his back (he’s okay, he just needs to spend a day or so lying flat with an ice pack). The latest chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door will post here at its usual time on Wednesday.

I think that’s all for this week! Take care of yourselves.

Song of the Week

Sinéad O’Connor, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”

Good morning! It’s an Arctic day here, so I hope that wherever you are, you are safe and warm.

In other news, my household is missing its solitary vehicle, as another driver ran a red light and struck my husband when he was coming home from work on Friday. Everyone is okay, but the car is probably a total loss. We’re waiting on the insurance to tell us what happens next, which will apparently not include coverage for a rental.

If you’ve got a spare $3, and you enjoy my work, I have a Patreon and a Ko-fi. We have groceries and a bus card and the heat is on, so please take care of yourself first.

It’s the end of the month, so there will be new chapters of everything this week!

The Book of the New Moon Door: new chapter on Patreon tomorrow.

Journey to the Water: the latest chapter will be here on the blog on Wednesday.

The Well Below the Valley: Episode 9 will be posted to Patreon also on Wednesday.

Lastly, the January edition of the newsletter will go out tomorrow. If you’d like to sign up, put your email in the box at this link. Don’t forget to click on the confirmation email afterward! You can also find the newsletter signup at the bottom of the page (bottom right on desktop),underneath the Follow Blog button.

I think that’s all for today. Take care, have an excellent week, and always wear your seatbelt.

Song of the Week

Dirtwire, “The Well” (featuring Rising Appalachia)

Good morning!

I was sick all last week (picked up a virus from my baby niece, who is the most adorable and needed extra cuddles. I washed my hands so much, but I still caught it). I think I’m reaching the end of it, so my plan is to post the Patreon chapter of Journey to the Water later this week (instead of the customary Tuesday). The most recent chapter of The Book of the New Moon Door will be up here on Wednesday.

As I get back to the minor blog redecorating that I was intending to do last week, please let me know if there’s anything I can do to make my website more accessible! I’ve chosen the font and color combination to be easy on the eyes, and all images should have alt text. Please feel free to leave me a comment if I can make reading a better experience for you.

Have an excellent week, and be sure to stop by again soon.