It’s interesting for me to look back on some of the older posts and articles on my website (at Irish Imbas Books) and see how my plans and intentions have changed over the years. I recently came across an article dating from seven years back where I’d outlined some of my book plans including
* LIATH LUACHRA: Sons of the Land
* BODHMHALL: The Black Hag
* FIONN: The Salmon of Secret Wisdom
The first of those (LIATH LUACHRA: Sons of the Land) did go ahead and was, indeed, published but it came out under the title ‘LIATH LUACHRA: The Swallowed‘. At the point in time where I wrote that article, I knew the book would have a strong ‘wolf’ element to it. The Irish word for ‘wolf’ is ‘mactíre’ which literally means ‘son of the land,’ so it seemed a logical title at the time. I think I ended up changing the title to ‘The Swallowed’ as this aligned more effectively with the theme of the book.
BODHMHALL: The Black Hag was a book I’d intended to write as a companion novel for ‘Liath Luachra: The Grey One’ but, in the end, many of the elements I’d intended to put in ‘The Black Hag’, ended up in FIONN: The Adversary and it didn’t go ahead.
‘FIONN: The Salmon of Secret Wisdom’ is a book I still intend to write but with the 6th book in the series being released tomorrow (FIONN: The Betrayal), there were obviously some important elements to the story that had to take place first before I could even start my own take on the famous Salmon of Knowledge (and it would be a different take).
Once the FIONN series is finished, I do have plans to start another series with Fionn/Demne which will follow the more established parts of the Fenian narratives.
FIONN: The Betrayal will be released tomorrow (5th April 2025).
