Introducing Glencrow Summer, my Project 2026 Novel

 

 
I am delighted to announce the release of my 2026 novel, Glencrow Summer, slightly earlier than scheduled. It's Amazon ebook release will be on the 20th of February 2025 followed shortly by its Audible release. You can pre-order it HERE for $3.99. The Amazon paperback version will likely be released a bit earlier, the date to come. All my other ebook, and audio book versions, the FREE versions from the various retailers, will be available on or before the 20th, depending on when it clears my beta readers. More information on that date when I know it.

While my goal remains to write one novel a year, I believe in making hay while the sun shines, and at the moment, for some reason, the sun is shining brightly on my writing. I intend to make hay writing for as long as it shines and release the books once I finish them.

I have already talked about the influences that shaped this book in previous blog posts, and I will no doubt be talking more about this novel in the coming weeks. But for now, here are the covers, and its blurb. Stay tuned!

Areyou weary of long, dark, and grim fantasy epics? Tired of evilpriests, ruthless kings, sinister queens, knaves, andscoundrels—intricate palace intrigues and endless wars? Are youjaded by blood-soaked tomes of battle after battle, death afterdeath? Need a break from accounts of disembowelment, torture, rape,and murder? In short, are you looking for a different sort offantasy? Look no further.

Again.

Are you in the mood for a summer long holiday in the north woods?

GlencrowSummeris, like its companionnovel, ChateauClare,a leisurely paced, mundane slice-of-life fantasy novel set in apost-magic, Edwardian-era world. While this novel is set in the sameworld, three years after ChateauClare,it can be read as a stand alone novel, since it features newcharacters and a new setting. Once again, the stakes are low, thecompany pleasant.

Ryeth Darth-Ruen is a minorscion of one of the seven remaining Great Houses of Lorria and thepersonal secretary of his uncle Avlen Ruen. He’s asked by hisconcerned uncle to travel to Loc Lore Rey to help look after Avlen's mother, the formidable Aunt Adora Ruen. She intends to spend thesummer in a remote lodge in the north woods, accompanied her faithfulmaid, writing her memoirs. Rye agrees, only to discoverthat Uncle Avlen has a second mission for him – he’s to prevent,or at least delay, the writing of said memoirs. It seems that AuntAdora had a rather scandalous youth, one that Uncle Avlen would rather notwant brought to light. How Rye is to accomplish thisisan unanswered question.

GlencrowSummeris his lighthearted account of a summer spent in Loc Lore Rey. He meets new friends, gets in a bit of fishing, finds a hint of summer romance,and slowly, and quite unintentionally, helps uncover one of the deepestsecrets of the Age of Sorcery – the true story of the legendaryStar Chamber of the Court of Shalott.

C.Litka spins tales of adventure, mystery, and travel set in richlyimagined worlds. In GlencrowSummer,he has written a novel of a long summer holiday and its unexpectedmysteries with his usual cast of colorful, fully realized characters.If you seek to escape your everyday life, you’ll find no bettercompany, nor more wonderful worlds to explore, than in the stories ofC. Litka.