You can now order a printed copy of 'Land of the Ever-Living Ones' online at Mythical Ireland

You can now order printed copies of 'Land of the Ever-Living Ones'. The order page is on the Mythical Ireland website. Above is a photo of some neatly-arranged copies of the book which has just arrived from the printer in recent days. Some of you might have purchased the Amazon Kindle version, but I know lots of people want a physical printed version. Now you can easily order it using a credit/Visa card or PayPal using the button on the Mythical Ireland page.

Because this book is self-published, I don't yet have a distributor, so copies are only available direct from me at this time. The book is priced at 7 euro. If you are in Ireland, postage and packaging will be an extra €2. If you are anywhere else in the world, P&P is €4.

Don't forget that if you were anywhere in Ireland, you are welcome to attend the book's official launch this Friday, November 29th, in The Barbican Centre, William Street, Drogheda, at 7.30pm. Thanks.

The wind speaks vehemently of its lonely sojourn

Another quote from Land of the Ever-Living Ones. At this moment, one final proofreading is taking place, and the book is about 98% ready for print and eBook distribution. If you would like to donate towards the printing costs and to support me in getting this work out to the public, please click on the link below. Every donation helps. Thank you.

The meeting point of ancestors and descendants

Work continues apace to have 'Land of the Ever-Living Ones' prepared for publication. The design of the inside of the book is done, and one proof has already been completed. A proofreader is currently checking the text for mistakes and typos, and all going well it will be ready for print within days. I am planning to release the book on Amazon Kindle also, so will be formatting that version within days also. Above is a quote from the forthcoming novella. I hope you like it. Feel free to share this on with your friends and on social media.

Working on the cover design for LOTELO

I have been referring to 'Land of the Ever-Living Ones' by its acronym, LOTELO, and I have become quite fond of its short name. I came up with three possible cover designs and asked people on my Facebook pages to vote for their favourite, and to rate them according to a list of key words relating to the book's themes. Here are the three cover designs:

I asked people to consider the following key words when they were choosing their favourite: air, wind, fire, water, earth, monuments, prehistory, Ireland, mythology, otherworld, heaven, stars, celestial, cosmic, mysticism, ancestors, transformation, learning, knowledge, wisdom, death, rebirth, solstice, night and day.

The middle cover was by far the most popular, with the votes working out at a ratio of 1:2:1. I ruled out the right-hand cover altogether because many people thought its colouring was similar to the cover of 'Island of the Setting Sun', even though it is a beautiful cover nonetheless. Several people thought the middle cover could do with a bit of colour punch and depth, so I decided that, in keeping with one of the central themes of the book, I would add some stars into the sky and darken it up a bit. What I ended up doing was taking the sky from the left-hand image (stars over Dowth) and pasting it into the middle image. Here is what I came up with:

A draft cover for LOTELO.

I continue to work on editing the book. One major edit was done last weekend, and a second major edit is now being completed. When that's done, hopefully in a day or two, I will give a copy of the manuscript to two proof-readers to ensure it's all okay. At that stage, I hope to select a printer and get it off to print. In the meantime, I will try to format it for Amazon Kindle, where it will be available as an eBook.

All going well, I will be launching the book in Drogheda in early November, to coincide with Samhain. Hope to see you there!