UPDATES

5 days ago

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11-23-2024

Hastelbrook at last! Though the full resolution image will be unveiled in Emelyn Morley

and the Waking Dark: a Visual Companion, I wanted to show off the manor of

Hastelbrook, so check out the full frontal facade in the Gallery!

11-12-2024:

Emelyn Morley and the Waking Dark: a Visual Companion is coming soon!

Presenting today the front and back covers, as well as updates to what's included,

See the entry for the VC in the Books section!

11-6-2024:

Final Saunmoor image posted to the gallery, the black fortress itself. The full version of this pic will be published in my upcoming Visual Companion for the first novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Emelyn-Morley-Waking-Dark-Saunmoor/dp/B0D9JM5NC9

10-26-2024:

Presenting the Morley family coat of arms, see the full sized image in the gallery: Colors: vert - loyalty, argent - truth, gold - power. Oak tree crest - enduring protection. Open books - revealed knowledge. Ships - maritime commerce. Motto - "By land and sea"

10-24-2024:

Nantucket Monsters is now available

on Amazon!

After much blood sweat and tears I have

crafted a photoreal depiction of Emelyn

Morley's room in Hastelbrook, exactly how

it is described, and how I've pictured it.

Added to the Art Gallery.

10-16-2024:

As I continue with final edits for Saunmoor Book 2:

Emelyn Morley and the House of Galecliff, work has

begun on Saunmoor Book 1: A Visual Companion.

This 100pp hardback book will feature cast images,

including lore tidbits (avoiding as many spoilers as

possible) for human and vampire characters, as

well as scenery, buildings, with a special section on

Saunmoor and its history, with floor plans for

Hastelbrook and additional notes, including

letters and poems.

Revamped the Books section. The opening

pages for Emelyn Morley and the Waking Dark,

Chapter 1, are now readable on mobile.

Fitzwilliam Artkwright has been added to the gallery,

along with The Patient Lord, one of my new

Haunt pieces.

Updated Source of the Week (it will be 18th Century

Sources now!) for the works of Rosamund

Bayne Powell, my favorite historian of the

18th century.

Nantucket Monsters is now selling on Ingramspark,

and is available locally at Mitchell's Books, Bookworks,

Island Variety, Peachtree, the Atheneum and the

Nantucket Whaling Museum.

10-7-2024:

I am now on Storiad:

https://app.storiad.com/author/BLHBooks

Nantucket Monsters has launched!

This 50 page photo book features before and after

images turning the creepy way Nantucketers wrap

their trees and shrubs for the cold season into

actual monsters, with Edward Gorey style rhyming

couplets to boot.

10-4-2024:

Emelyn Morley and the Waking Dark has been thoroughly edited and corrected for British English, being that it takes place in 18th century England.

#historicalnovelsociety #saunmoor #vampirefiction #historicalfiction

10-1-2024:

NEWS: My emergency Halloween project, Nantucket Monsters, is almost complete and will be hitting shelves (real and virtual) just in time! This is a photo-book using creepy photos I've taken over the years of wrapped bushes and trees on the island, with before and after they have been enhanced and mutated into monsters, with rhyming couplets. Stay tuned!

9-26-2024:

Added new artwork, The First Throne.

Added new artwork, Frusk & Partners.

Added new artwork, Long Mary Wretch.

Added Coming Soon page, featuring cover art and blurb for Saunmoor Book 2:

Emelyn Morley and the House of Galecliff

Updated the Mad Poetry page with Long Mary Wretch and her story.

9-25-2024:

Added more flavor to the CAST section, with new details for Emelyn, her sisters, her brother and her parents.

Added new artwork, The Twin Darkness:

'Often she would dream of it, though in the adventures of her sleeping mind it was not a mounted bust, but a towering completed form, and appeared always with another— identical sculpted figures hooded in flowing ebon cloaks, but markedly different than Vaela; they were tall and ethereal, looming like giants.'

9-24-2024:

Added new artwork,

The Vision: '. . . the recurring dream lingered in her mind: haunting, sonorous voices on the wind, a ghostly woman shrouded in black, both enchanting and frightful, leading her always through a high iron gate on a mist creeping road toward some foreboding place she never reached before waking . . .'

9-23-2024:

Added new artwork,

The Dark Gates

The Little Bridge

The Elder Oak

9-22-2024:

Added new artwork, The Queen in the Dark.

Added opening pages to the Books section, so readers can begin Chapter 1 and discover the first two scenes.

Fixed a few typos.

9-21-2024:

Added new artwork, The Mad Poet, the Speaking Glass, Hastelbrook Great Hall, and Morley family portrait

Added Mad Poetry section