Nell Grey's Blog - Posts Tagged "pagan"

This week I've been re-editing The Golden Web, the first book in what was intended as a pagan trilogy. I've been reading and making slight alterations to the print copy rather than the file, and finding the process very strange - as if coming across the work of an unknown author for the first time and recognizing myself in a past life, which is of course exactly (well, maybe not exactly), what's happening. I'd forgotten many details, many twists and turns and the strange atmosphere created by the voice of the narrator. No wonder I was exhausted - paganed-out - when the final page had been completed. I'd lived it.

But that's the point and why I feel compelled to republish as a Kindle book. Because I realized fairly soon after the second edition had been published that I'd got it all wrong. I should have rested and waited until I'd finished the sequel so it could become the second part of the original book, between the same two covers.

As for the planned trilogy, the ending of Three Magic Women rendered a third book superfluous, although a character from it spoke to me and I began a new and separate work, yet to be completed.

So today, and not without some trepidation, I'll open the pages of Three Magic Women and hear again Una's odd voice, walk with her through the land and relive her journey. Wish me luck.

It has been a long journey, interrupted by both life and death, but at last Incarnations of Crow has been published as a Kindle. I think this will be my final novel - my eyes have suffered in the writing, editing and formatting of this one, and I still have art projects to complete. As yet I have no reviews, probably due to my dislike of social media and self-promotion in any form, however well-disguised. It doesn't help that Amazon assumes that if an author chooses to tag their work as occult, then that work must come under the designation of horror which, although there are some dark happenings, this book is not. No matter, it is out in the world now and can simply be what it is - imperfect no doubt and certainly idiosyncratic - peculiarly mine. :)