Free For Three More Days

Posted on August 11, 2023 by crispina kemp

✨ALSALDA BEAR✨

Now on sale

https://mybook.to/AlsaldaBear

To celebrate I’m offering

✨HARE AND ADDER e-book FREE✨

10th to 13th August.

mybook.to/HareAndAdder

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Free Today…

Posted on August 10, 2023 by crispina kemp

Hare and Adder, Book One of Alsaldic Lands Trilogy, was published on Amazon on 10th June. Today, Alsalda Bear, Book Two, to show its face to the world. To mark the occasion, I’m offering Hare and Adder e-book free from today until Sunday 13th August.

Click for Hare And Adder Click for Alsalda Bear

But what is this Alsaldic Lands Trilogy?

Is it a continuous story told across three books?

No, it is not.

The Alsaldic Lands Trilogy comprises three stories that stretch across centuries of prehistory, linked by place, and trade, and granaries, of beer and bread brewed and baked for the feasts. This, against a backdrop of Immortals who’ll happily use humans as weapons in their ancient sniping griping feuds.

The trilogy begins in the Neolithic with Hare And Adder

Denied what she considers her birthright, Hegrea, born Hegrissa, must mould and sweeten an intrusive system of trading granaries to a resistant population to suit the native taste. That system is already thriving in the west, its instigator, Kerrid, Head of Kerdol (last seen in The Spinner’s Game). As the daughter of an Immortal, Hegrea is skilled in telepathy and is undeniably a wily one.

Now comes Alsalda Bear, Book Two

Hegrea’s network of trading granaries have multiplied and now are an established feature of the land. The granary traders are provided by an immigrant people who, of late, have allied themselves with Dal Uest, a land across the sea.

Born into the granary family, Detah believes she has no choice but to be a granary-worker; the keeper herself if her sister should die without daughters. But Detah prefers to be a trader and traveller like her father whose stories she devours. Her opportunity arrives on the heels of four horsemen from Dal Uest where a judgement has been made and their clan must leave. That arrival and the changes wrought throw the granary system into turmoil. Now is Detah’s chance – but first she must stand against her family.

The King’s Wife, Book Three, is scheduled for next year

Set amid the deteriorating weather that ushers in the Late Bronze Age, Book Three follows the final gasps of Hegrea’s granaries as the Alsaldic Lands are caught between two invading forces. Caught amongst the turmoil is Bregan, the last of the granary-keepers. Is she to blame for what happens? There are those who’d say she is, her Immortal father being one.

 Previous Books

Spinner’s Game:
The Spinner’s Child
Lake Of Dreams
The Pole That Threads
Lady Of First Making
The Spinner’s Sin

Spinner’s Series:
Learning To Fly
Hare and Adder (Book One, Alsaldic Lands Trilogy
Alsalda Bear (Book Two, Alsaldic Lands Trilogy
The King’s Wife (Book Three, Alsaldic Lands Trilogy, scheduled 2024)

Standalone books:
Roots Of Rookeri

Click to all my books on Amazon

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CCC248: Thor and the Frost Giants

Posted on August 10, 2023 by crispina kemp

Ståle hurried his wife and children. They had to seek safety, the storm was approaching. Coming closer. Closer. Growing louder. Louder.

Crash. Thump. Clash. Colliding. Rumbles and grumbles.

It was Thor, to be sure, stomping across the land, his chariot wheels upturning the stones, his harnessed goats knocking horns.

Ståle hid with his wife and children in the pit beneath his house until, in early morning light, the commotion suddenly halted. Silence.

Hesitant, cautious, Ståle bid his wife and children to stay the pit, while he checked it was safe.

Oh, the damage. That wasn’t Thor and only Thor. That was the Frost Giants too.

 

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #248

Posted on August 9, 2023 by crispina kemp

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it.

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Flowers…Mostly

Posted on August 8, 2023 by crispina kemp

Our stroll along the prom on 7th July 2023 didn’t yield us many flowers. But here’s the ones I found…

7th July 2023

Some kind of pea-family…

7th July 2023

Yellow Horned Poppy, my first sighting, excited!!!

7th July 2023

Sea Aster…

7th July 2023

Sea Bindweed…

7th July 2023

Fennel. I think it’s leapt from a nearby garden. It’s a survivor!

7th July 2023

A medley… to show the dearth!

7th July 2023

According to my app, this is a Chinese Wolfberry. So another that’s escaped someone’s garden…

7th July 2023

Can I pass lichen without taking a photo? No. This was on a seat by the church…

7th July 2023

And a wood pigeon to mark the end of the walk!

Hope you enjoyed. More next week.

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Let’s Take a Stroll Along The Prom

Posted on August 6, 2023 by crispina kemp

7th July. Forecast: blistering hot. But it’s our “walk day”. I know, let’s take a walk along the prom, catch the cooling sea-breezes. But not our prom. Let’s go to Lowestoft, the next resort along. Please, come along…

7th July 2023

We’re greeted as we get off the bus by a breeding colony of Kittiwakes on the church tower next to the station. Noisy? Oh yes!

7th July 2023

We pause on the bridge to take in the sight of the harbour entrance…

7th July 2023

And peer up at… is that Neptune?

7th July 2023

The sea is exceedingly quiet, the sun exceedingly bright. But the sun’s not too hot. We walk along…

7th July 2023

Cormorants, my favourite sea-bird…

7th July 2023

The beach isn’t busy…yet…but the sea is…

7th July 2023

Perfection. Time to sit and gaze awhile…

7th July 2023

The great British seaside phenomenon, beach huts…

7th July 2023

The prom sweeps around the bay which fronts the village of Pakefield…

7th July 2023

Pakefield church, looking very Biblical with its shaggy sheep…

7th July 2023

Dunes, fishing dingies and sandy-cliffs, that’s Pakefield’s sea-front…

7th July 2023

Damaged boats are left on the dunes to crumble to dust…

And now we have to turn around and walk back, and the day’s getting hot. But we did enjoy it. Hope you did too. Makes a change from our greener scenery

 

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Blue-on-Blue

Posted on August 5, 2023 by crispina kemp

7th July 2023

This regimented array is Lowestoft’s ultra-modern version of the humble beach hut (selling for £30,000 each). You have to agree, they display a rather Unusual Angle, which is the title I’m claiming from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week 

Compare with the regular (older) beach huts…

7th July 2023

 

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The Stolen Sun’s Chariot

Posted on August 5, 2023 by crispina kemp

image by Gordon Johnson on pixabay

I don’t often discuss my writing projects but this one’s only just begun.

There are two brothers, gods, one is all high and mighty and full of light, while the other hides in dark places, like beneath tree roots and in tombs and graves.

While the high brother’s attention was distracted, ten demons crept in, stole, and copied and multiplied the high god’s son’s sun chariot. Now they’re driving the multiple suns all over the sky. Phew, the heat!!!

And it’s going to be down to the dark hidden brother to outsmart the demons and defeat.

96 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Outsmart

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Alsalda Bear Goes Public!

Posted on August 4, 2023 by crispina kemp

Alsaldic Lands Trilogy

Hare and Adder, Book One of Alsaldic Lands Trilogy, was published on Amazon on 10th June. Now it’s time for Alsalda Bear, Book Two, to show its face to the world – on 10th August. To mark the occasion, I’m offering Hare and Adder e-book free from Thursday 10th to Sunday 13th August.

Click for Hare And Adder Click for Alsalda Bear

But what is this Trilogy?

Is it a continuous story told across three books?

No, it is not.

The Alsaldic Lands Trilogy comprises three stories that stretch across centuries of prehistory, linked by place, and trade, and granaries, of beer and bread brewed and baked for the feasts. This, against a backdrop of Immortals who’ll happily use humans as weapons in their ancient sniping griping feuds.

The trilogy begins in the Neolithic with Hare And Adder

Denied what she considers her birthright, Hegrea, born Hegrissa, must mould and sweeten an intrusive system of trading granaries to a resistant population to suit the native taste. That system is already thriving in the west, its instigator, Kerrid, Head of Kerdol (last seen in The Spinner’s Game). As the daughter of an Immortal, Hegrea is skilled in telepathy and is undeniably a wily one.

Now comes Alsalda Bear, Book Two

Hegrea’s network of trading granaries have multiplied and now are an established feature of the land. The granary traders are provided by an immigrant people who, of late, have allied themselves with Dal Uest, a land across the sea.

Born into the granary family, Detah believes she has no choice but to be a granary-worker; the keeper herself if her sister should die without daughters. But Detah prefers to be a trader and traveller like her father whose stories she devours. Her opportunity arrives on the heels of four horsemen from Dal Uest where a judgement has been made and their clan must leave. That arrival and the changes wrought throw the granary system into turmoil. Now is Detah’s chance – but first she must stand against her family.

The King’s Wife, Book Three, is scheduled for next year

Set amid the deteriorating weather that ushers in the Late Bronze Age, Book Three follows the final gasps of Hegrea’s granaries as the Alsaldic Lands are caught between two invading forces. Caught amongst the turmoil is Bregan, the last of the granary-keepers. Is she to blame for what happens? There are those who’d say she is, her Immortal father being one.

 Previous Books

Spinner’s Game:
The Spinner’s Child
Lake Of Dreams
The Pole That Threads
Lady Of First Making
The Spinner’s Sin

Spinner’s Series:
Learning To Fly
Hare and Adder (Book One, Alsaldic Lands Trilogy
Alsalda Bear (Book Two, Alsaldic Lands Trilogy
The King’s Wife (Book Three, Alsaldic Lands Trilogy, scheduled 2024)

Standalone books:
Roots Of Rookeri

Click to all my books on Amazon

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CCC247: I Cannot See

Posted on August 3, 2023 by crispina kemp

Strange to see a willowy woman amongst the ruins
And dressed in what looks like wedding-wear
A photo shoot maybe?
Ah, now a young man appears
Not for a wedding dressed
Perhaps it’s his Sunday Best?
And a priest…is that a priest?
I suppose next there’ll be a wedding feast!
But where are the photographers?
I cannot see.

I cannot see
The vision’s fading
For vision it is
No reality this

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