This morning I woke up from a dream I could not remember, save that part of it was the haunting poem from Jo Danilo’s ‘The Blackwood Crusade’.
It is a very touching poem. Here is is in full.
‘Tis just the beginning of you and me
As we wander by the stream.
You on one side, I on the other,
Just water in between.
I’ll sing to you as time goes by,
As winter melts to spring.
As flowers bloom, and die again,
So to life we’ll cling.
I’ll sing to you as the river floods,
And we’re poured into the sea.
And then I’ll hold you in my arms
Together, finally.’
This is the song that the joint hero, Silas, sings to his baby sister, a strangely precocious and magical infant who seems to come, like the rest of Silas’ family, to a tragic end in the river.
Thinking of it, reminded me what a great book this is. It is a fairy story for all ages, by turns funny, sad and adventurous.
Here is the page on Goodreads
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Published by Lucinda Elliot
Writer of Gothic dark comedy and historical fiction, my first ebook 'That Scoundrel Emile Dubois' came out in August 2012 and is available on Amazon. I have since won B.R.A.G medallions for self-published novels for that novel, the prequel 'Ravensdale' and the sequel, 'Where World's Meet, for another spoof Gothic 'The Villainous Viscount Or The Curse Of The Venns' and my novel on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, ''The Peterloo Affair'.
I live in Mid Wales with my family, and love a laugh above anything.
Synopsis of 'That Scoundel Emile Dubois'.
'When young Sophie de Courcy, bored but patient companion to the Countess of Ruthin, agrees to marry her long-time hero, dashing French rogue Emile Dubois, she is catapulted into a dangerous world of Man Vampires and Time Warps. With the help of Agnes, her no nonsense, tarot-reading Welsh maid, she must come to terms with her new husband’s scandalous past, defeat the evil Vampire neighbours and rescue Emile from the machinations of time which threaten to destroy their new found love. All this in just one book!
Scoundrel is an entertaining, over-the-top Gothic adventure, alive with colourful character comedy as it flits between Revolutionary France and misty Wales.'
Based in mid Wales, once living and worked in London for years, I am fond of weight training, was long ago a champion Sportsfighter, I am a fully paid up, card holding English classics geek and love a laugh...
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Thank you, lovely Lucinda! It’s wonderful that the book is still in your mind after all this time 🙂 xxx
Reblogged this on Jo Danilo and commented:
So awesome to hear that my lovely Blackwood book is still sending out ripples and appearing in dreams! I remember the first young girl who read it, aged 14, reporting that she’d had nightmares – but ‘good ones’!
I am not likely to forget it as the writing is so evocative. The fates of the Captain and the Fairy Queen really touched me in a way that is unusual. A truly original book that, if there is any justice, must come to have the recognition that it deserves.