A busy and creative twelve months, my quill never running dry resulted in the completion of Walls Have Ears – Volume One 1845-1877. It is a pleasure compiling the history of Craig Y Nos Castle in Wales, all channelled through a project lasting eighteen months in collabration with Jeremy Marsh, Historian and Paul Brandon, Genealogist with myself trance-channeling. We conducted over 150 interviews with spirits/souls who lived at the castle between 1845 and 1982. Stories revealed are beautifully illustrated by Gill Brooks. Volume Two 1878-1919 ‘The Adelina Patti Years’ is due for completion and publication this year.
A new character Inspector Septimus Summer-Garden popped into my head followed by two series of short stories featuring the antics of this dithering often confused detective. Written for children these books are designed to dip in and out of, ideal for bedtime storytelling.
Pocket Sized Tales written for young adults and adults again is a ‘popper inner and outer’ with some stories five minute reads and others longer. Be it coffee time, bed time or anytime these stories are all unique in the telling with good moral outcomes.
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2026 is partly structured in that Walls Have Ears – Volume Two and the final volume of Crach Ffinnant are already on the desk. No doubt other things will pop up, they always do, but that is to natter about next year. Happy New Year to the Universe!
Lazarus Carpenter - Author 