I started to write about 'the Lady' back in the 80's. Even that wasn't the beginning, because I initially envisaged her in another world, a world of the Cullain, an ancient and benign people who wandered through space colonising worlds, and I had already started writing stories about their world of Delvan in the mid 1970's.
Living here in the Highlands, I have heard stories about the great Celtic heroes, and read about them, since childhood. I love them. They fascinate me. In my stories the Cullain had come to a prehistoric Earth and been here at the time of these ancient Celtic heroes. The LotF stories are based on what might have happened away back then, although the current story (LotF) is based in 'the present day.'
My early scribblings were things I amused myself with for many years, they were never intended for 'other eyes.' The tales became deeper and more fantastical as I delved deeper into Celtic mythology, and so my invented history of the Cullain and their worlds began to take shape and grow. My love of ancient Scots ballads has led in part, to the way I have been putting this story together; assembling it from the various diverse writings I have made over the years, bound together with myth and legend and written, in part, using verse forms in addition to the more usual prose.
I read a very tiny part of these writings on local radio (SHMU Radio in Aberdeen) in October, 2013, but that aside, no part of this story has been published to date. I do have a few published poems which I may incorporate into the final book. We'll see. It's all very fluid at the moment and I have a lot of disparate manuscripts to 'wade through.'
Living here in the Highlands, I have heard stories about the great Celtic heroes, and read about them, since childhood. I love them. They fascinate me. In my stories the Cullain had come to a prehistoric Earth and been here at the time of these ancient Celtic heroes. The LotF stories are based on what might have happened away back then, although the current story (LotF) is based in 'the present day.'
My early scribblings were things I amused myself with for many years, they were never intended for 'other eyes.' The tales became deeper and more fantastical as I delved deeper into Celtic mythology, and so my invented history of the Cullain and their worlds began to take shape and grow. My love of ancient Scots ballads has led in part, to the way I have been putting this story together; assembling it from the various diverse writings I have made over the years, bound together with myth and legend and written, in part, using verse forms in addition to the more usual prose.
I read a very tiny part of these writings on local radio (SHMU Radio in Aberdeen) in October, 2013, but that aside, no part of this story has been published to date. I do have a few published poems which I may incorporate into the final book. We'll see. It's all very fluid at the moment and I have a lot of disparate manuscripts to 'wade through.'
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