A Midsummer Sale and a Carnyx

It’s Midsummer, and I’m in celebratory mode and sounding my (imaginary) carnyx. All major edits have been completed on all three books of A Dancer’s Journey. There’s still a couple of smaller edits and proofing to be done, but great progress has been made. I’m not announcing publication dates yet, just in case of illness… but they will appear in due course.

Midsummer Sale

The kindle version of SISTERS is on sale for a week in the UK and USA at 99p/99c.

Midsummer, or High Summer, is important to the people of the book. There’s dancing, singing, storytelling and other, naughtier, activities in the stone circle. There’s also feasting and fighting, and the sound of a newly constructed carnyx, a wind instrument of the Iron Age Celts.

Sound of the Carnyx

In the video below, a musician plays a reconstruction of the Deskford Carnyx, an instrument that was discovered in this area of Scotland and dates from the time of SISTERS.

The Book

Set in 1st century Scotland, SISTERS AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD includes the battle of Mons Graupius between the Romans and the Caledonian tribes. The book features a neurodivergent main character and some rather complicated romance…

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Some Midsummer Beauty Ox-Eye Daisy A misty morning. Rhododendrons

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