Among us walk a race older than time-called the Travelers, Tuatha dŽ Dannan, the Sidhe, the Fair Folk, and the F‡’dh, they are the magical beings who remember when forests covered much of the earth and people revered the older gods and goddesses.
The Shining Isle is the story of Holly Tremenhere and the small island of Inishr’m. Holly was awakened to the mysteries at a young age, but could not cope with their seemingly alien reality and turned away from them. Now, disillusioned with the senselessness of day-to-day existence, she is ripe for change. Meanwhile, Inishr’m has been targeted for takeover by those who do not understand its significance. The isle and its inhabitants harbor an ancient secret-one they will fight to the death to keep safe.
Everybody always says, “write about something you know.” The Shining Isle, like its predecessor The Quickening, is about people, places, a god and a goddess, all known to me personally, and events that affect all of us globally and many of us ...
Greetings all! It is with some sadness that I write my last column for New Worlds. I have very much enjoyed writing to each of you for the past three years, but it is time to move on to other adventures, and in the next issue you will have a lovely ...
The Tor stands nigh, a lonely hill
Though ghosts of women walk it still
Attendants of the well are gone—I sing, with pain, of Avalon
Where now, the blossoms and the fruit?
The sacred ways of leaf and root?
The pool of Sight we looked out on—where now, the songs, of Avalon?
- From the song “Lament” by Jhenah Telyndru
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