Demesne Estates
The demesne estates are the heart of Albion’s land magic. Take a tour of what this means and a few of the key estates.
The demesne estates are the heart of Albion’s land magic. Take a tour of what this means and a few of the key estates.
Thomas Benton likes to be quietly in the background. Here’s a look at his life, from his early service in a country house, through the Great War, and his life after, entwined with the Carillons.
A guide to neurodiverse characters in my books, as of 2024. (Check out the grid early in the post for the current complete list.)
Learn about the ideas behind Three Graces: a longstanding mystery about Temple Carillon, three women with different skills, and moving forward in the aftermath of the second world war.
Explore the history of Richard Edgarton in all his many roles: Lord, Captain in the Guard, magistrate, husband, father, and lover of the land.
The ideas behind Best Foot Forward: the comment that started it all, Alexander and Carillon, music, and Vienna.
Learn about the ideas behind Ancient Trust, a novella about Geoffrey Carillon and Thomas Benton in 1922. Those include the Carillons, Carillon and Benton, and connections to other people.
Do people need to have kids to have their happily ever after. Some of my characters have kids, but not everyone does! Here’s more about those books.
It is the time of year where a roundup of what I did seems useful for a variety of reasons. (Come back next week for what’s coming in 2023!) What came out in 2022 I put out four novels, two novellas, and a substantial extra in 2022. That’s a lot! Links here that aren’t the title (in the header) will take you to my public wiki. There you can see more details about people and places.
Are you curious about the land magic? Carillon’s background? What it means to be a Lord in Albion? Did you know there’s a new novella out? It’s my treat if you sign up for my newsletter. (Feel free to unsubscribe when you need to, of course. But I hope you’ll stick around, at least for an email or two that will let you get all the other treats I share with my newsletter subscribers.) Ancient Trust is all about what happens when Geoffrey Carillon inherits the title on his brother’s death. It has quite a lot about the land magic customs at Ytene. It also led to some interesting questions from a reader. (I love reader questions. Sometimes I haven’t settled on my final answer about something. But I’ll let you know if you ask something I can’t answer yet. Or if you ask something that’s too much of a spoiler for something that’s coming out in the future.) The questions: It got me thinking, how do the Lords of Albion engage with the House of Lords? Is attending Westminster an additional responsibility for Carillion? Do Albion peerages result in having the right to sit in the House? And what about the women? How does the Land Magic recognise women? These are great questions – and also some that I haven’t quite found the right place to get into text. Let’s take this one by one in an order that should help.