It’s the end of the calendar year, and that means it’s time for a roundup of the year. Read on for what was published, what I’ve written, the extras shared this year, and what’s on the Patreon!
Books published
It was a tremendously busy year on this front, mostly due to the Mysterious Fields trilogy. This year, I published six novels:
Perfect Accord (1923) follows Charlotte Edgarton (Gabe’s younger sister and daughter of Richard and Alysoun) as she gets entangled in a group of people up to no good. Along the way she meets a talented alchemist (Lewis), defangs a plot, and falls in love.
The Magic of Four (1946-1947) is the last book in the Land Mysteries series. Unlike most of my books, it’s not a romance – they’re all 14 or 15 during this book. A school story, it’s full of the challenges of school life, navigating the year the secret societies pick new members, and an adventure that really could only happen at Schola. It features four children of couples in previous books: Leo Fortier (son of Thesan and Isembard), Avigail Edgarton (daughter of Gabe and Rathna Edgarton), Ros Carillon (daughter of Geoffrey and Lizzie Carillon), and Jasper Pride (son of Rufus and Ferry Pride).
Facets of the Bench (1927) is about Griffin refusing to let other people’s assumptions define his life, about jet carving, and about making a new life when the old one is no longer feasible. (That’d be Annice, the last two points.) It’s also all about Trellech’s Courts and land magic.
Finally, the Mysterious Fields trilogy. Enchanted Net, Silent Circuit and Elemental Truth follow Thessaly from her betrothal to Childeric Fortier – the match of their generation – to her growing friendship with Vitus Deschamps, a talisman maker on the cusp of finishing his apprenticeship.
Thessaly and Vitus get their happily ever after in book 3, but there are some challenging moments along the way.
Books written
So, what did I write in 2024? The books include the following. (I’ll have more about them in the “plans for 2025” post that’s coming next week here on the blog.)
Enchanted Net (part of it), Silent Circuit and Elemental Truth, described above.
Weaving Hope, about a tapestry weaver and restorer and someone who has just inherited a very large house with tapestries, set in 1927. (Out in February 2025.) If you like my quieter books, this is definitely one of them.
Grown Wise, a romance featuring Ursula Fortier (Leo’s older sister) being an absolutely terrifying delight. It ties up a few threads of the events of the Mysterious Fields trilogy that weren’t visible to Thessaly and Vitus, takes on the land magic, and has a lot about apples.
Harmonic Pleasure (ok, technically almost done: I’m 2 chapters from finishing as I type this.) A romance featuring Farran Michaels (last seen in Seven Sisters) in 1928 near the end of his apprenticeship. This one includes a night club singer, and ‘how many interesting bits of London lore can I fit into a single book’?
Extras
Besides what’s on the Patreon (more about that below), I also shared these extras. (The extras pages explain the different ways you can get a copy if you don’t have them.)
Necessary Conversations, an extra of two conversations at the end of Perfect Accord.
and 12 Seconds in 1927, an extra for the solar eclipse of 1927 (two years after Eclipse). I was lucky enough to be able to see the total eclipse in April 2024 with friends just across the border into Quebec. It was an incredible and inspirational experience.
And there’s the solstice extra, coming to my newsletter, Patreon, and Discord on December 20th. Keeping this one secret has been hard!
Over on Patreon
Finally, over on Patreon, I’ve been sharing different series of extras. (We have one more Schola Tales episode to go, but I’m saving it until after a particular point in A Fox Hunt, because they overlap in events.) These are all available at every level, from $1 on up.
(It’s also totally fine with me if you subscribe for a month and then drop it again. All of these will eventually be edited and made available to everyone on my newsletter and Discord for free, but it may be a minute or three.)
Schola Tales follows the four students from The Magic of Four through their first year at Schola (where the novel is their second). It also gave me a chance to explore some scenes in more detail that don’t do a lot for the narrative.
Ritual Time follows Cyrus from when he becomes Head of the Council in 1932 through to his retirement in 1946 (one scene a year, with a few exceptions). We’ll have three more in this series in 2025.
A Fox Hunt is about Ursula Fortier (and her father and uncle, as well) as she leaves school and settles at Arundel with a goal of being her Uncle Garin’s Heir. The first scenes are 1944 and 1945, and mostly in 1946 into 1947. (This is timed so we’ll get the last episode in May when Grown Wise comes out.)
Friend? Friend. is all about how Orion Sisley and Claudio Warren moved from ‘thrown in together with each other’ to deep friendship and chosen brotherhood. It overlaps with the events of Eclipse in the 1924-1925 school year.
Back next week with plans for 2025! (And plans for the Patreon will be up on the Patreon, as well.)
