One year ago today, Daffodils and Dreams found its readers. Brodyr Alarch #4 — soft and aching and full of spring light, trying to break through something heavy.

Still one of my favourites to have written. 💙

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What's your ideal reading weather? Rain against the window, full summer heat, or something in between?

🌧 Stormy and dark
❄️ Cold winter night
🌤 Sunny but quiet
🔥 Curled up beside the fire

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The June newsletter is here — three WIPs, two book birthdays, free sweet romance reads, and a midsummer welcome. *Midsummer & Manuscripts* is waiting for you. 🌿✨

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Swans in Welsh mythology are never simply birds. They're transformed, enchanted, cursed — wearing the shape of one world while belonging entirely to another.

That in-between quality is what keeps pulling me back to them. 🦢

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It's another hot one out there, and if you're anything like me, you'll be staying firmly indoors with the curtains drawn and something cold to drink. 🥵 That honestly sounds like the perfect excuse to settle in with a good book.💙

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The Story Hearth is a cosy gathering place for readers, writers, and wanderers who love myth, folklore, and romance that lingers. Bookish chats, writing talk, folklore discussions, and sneak peeks await. 🌙🔥

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Wales never quite forgot that the old year turns on thresholds, not calendars. It was a season, a slow awareness that the boundary between worlds had grown thin enough to feel. Hilltop fires. Dawn-visited wells. The green world, briefly, at its most alive.

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There's a Micro Full Moon tonight, which gives today a particular kind of energy, bright and full and quietly charged. It also happens to be Social Media Day, which feels like a fine excuse to tell you all how much I appreciate you being here💙

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It's the last day of August, and the year is doing something you can feel rather than see. The light's the same, but the air isn't. The harvest is almost in. September is standing just outside the door, waiting to be let in. 🍂🌿

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It's the New Moon in Cancer today, which means it's the right kind of moment for setting intentions and letting the work find its direction. The Monmouth manuscript is asking questions I'm only just finding answers to. Nia and Gareth are, as ever, patient with me. 🌑🌿
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It's the last quarter moon today. The kind of moment that asks you to look back before moving forward. June was a full month of folklore and story. July feels quieter and more inward. The cauldron's still working, even when you can't see the fire. 🌘

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What's the most transformative book you've ever read? Not just a favourite, but the one that changed something in you before you'd even finished it. The one that caught you at exactly the right moment and left you different on the other side of it.

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Welsh midsummer customs weren't dramatic. They were attentive - wells visited at dawn, fires lit on high ground, and herbs gathered while their virtue held. A whole season of quiet acknowledgement that the world had shifted. 🌿

Photo: Virtuous Well in Trellech

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Books have a way of showing up for you that very few other things can match. They're always there when you need them, never asking anything back. Monday feels like a good day to remember just how much that's worth. 💙

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Still Waters, Deep — a lake that remembers. A woman who was never quite mortal. A love that was woven before either of them had a choice.

The Between Hill and Sea world is waiting. 🌊

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A Blue Moon & a Micro Full Moon on the same night: returning twice, & still keeping its distance. In Welsh mythology, the moon was never just a light in the sky. Tonight, that feels very near. Drop a moon emoji in the thread if you caught sight of it 🌕

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