Month: August 2021

As some of you may know, we have a croft, or smallholding, here on the Isle of Lewis. Late summer is a busy time, with lots of harvesting taking place.

We often sit down to a meal that contains lots of home produce, and occasionally one that is totally home grown.

My better half and I have been busy building a new fruit cage this week to protect the soft fruit and some of the apple trees from the birds.

We got the frame up over a few days and have just covered it with netting.

We’ve also had some of our own hens’ eggs in an incubator for the last three weeks, resulting in these little fluff balls yesterday.

Add these to the clutch of ducklings that arrive a month ago, and we’ve got lots of hungry mouths to feed!

It’s all part of the life we choose to live on Scotland’s North-West frontier.

In case you missed it, there are now four books in the Guardians of the Circles series, the two novellas, Talisman of Fire, and The Turning Stone, which many of you will have read, and the novels, The Apprentice Tattoo and Children of the Spirits. I recently launched the last one, and you can find it on Amazon.com HERE, and Amazon.co.uk HERE.

There’s a new promotion for you all this time. Over 80 free books are on offer in the High Stakes Magic giveaway, HERE.

Also, a reminder that the Magic and Adventure promotion is still running, so take a look to see if you missed any excellent reads there.

I hope you find something to your liking amongst these fantastic freebies!

D J Eastwood

With two novels and two novellas in the Guardians of the Circles series already published, I thought it was time to write the third novel… but it’s not!

Shilla is the eldest daughter of Col, the main character in The Apprentice Tattoo, and the younger sister of Lorev, who appears in Children of the Spirits. Book three, which is all about her, will be entitled Disc of the Sun. I even made a start on the story, giving a bit of a background to my heroine’s life, but it’s not ready to be told yet.

The other stories have flowed well, and I’ve written them in quite short order, but this one is more of a problem. It is not completely formed.

That leaves me with a quandary. Do I try to force the story out, or do I take a step back and try to write something else while my subconscious assembles the components for Shilla’s tale?

I spent an hour last night, trying to write this new book. I got about 200 words down… then deleted them.

So, I guess I’m looking for a new story idea to write next!

I’m not short of ideas. There is a story about a Selkie, a tale of love and loss about a psychic medium, a vampire tale with a very different twist, and the story of a man falsely accused of child abuse. There’s a lot to choose from. Which one will come to me first? We’ll have to wait and see…

While you’re here, take a look at this new offer. Over 70 FREE titles in the Magic & Adventure promotion. Take a look HERE.

Also, you can still find the Historical Fiction promo from last time HERE.

Until next time

D J Eastwood