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The Ferrishyn Series

Book 1: ‘Ferrishyn’

I am delighted to announce that the first book in my adult romantasy series ‘Ferrishyn’ will be published by Scorpius Books in 2024:
Lucile Taylor is a displaced human, living on the Eamhain side of the Shift (an inter-dimensional portal opened by USUK scientists after Earth’s surface was made uninhabitable by nuclear war). Lucile has lived among the Fenodyree, a Ferrishyn tribe, since her parents were killed. She is an acolyte of the Great Serpent and has grown up with magic. She lives peacefully on her farm until USUK Commander Jacob Reid and the soldiers of Fifth Division use her home as an extraction point and take her captive during their exfil.
At first, Jacob appears to be as terrible as every other Earthling Lucile has met. He’s ruthless, unpredictable and full of barely-suppressed rage, but the young Jamaican-Irish soldier is not what he at first seems. Like Lucile, he too has had enough of USUK’s President (Irene Nolan) and her relentless, bloody, campaign in Ferrishyn lands. When Lucile offers Jacob a way to stop the fighting he takes it, with dire consequences for them both.
Featuring familiar tropes (enemies-to-lovers, found family and a unique magic system) the Ferrishyn series is sci-fi meets fae-fi, offering a fresh take on familiar characters and stories from British, Irish and Manx folklore with plenty of action and a dash of spice!

Available now to preorder!

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And Where Will You Go, Gan Dídean?

Previously published, I am re-releasing this dystopian fae-fi novella with updated cover art soon:
Follow Mise Erskin on her quest to reunite with Poem, her best friend and only companion in the dangerous and tricksy world of Faerie. Mise’s pony has been taken by the cruel and beautiful seelie High Lord, Hellequin, and she will go to any length, make any deal, slay any beast to save her. Set in a dystopian future, where the forest has returned and humans scrape out a pitiful living on the edge of the dangerous Faerie lands, Mise must rely on her wits and the help of a mysterious fox-tailed Fae, known only as Nameless, to retrieve the head of the fearsome monster Nuckelavee and trade it with Hellequin for her pony’s freedom.
With appearances from plenty of folklore favourites along the way (boggarts, changelings, brags, kelpies, nixies, goblins and redcaps), ‘And Where Will You Go, Gan Dídean?’ is an adventure, in the classic model of the Hero’s Journey, but with a twist.  Each chapter can be read as a standalone folktale and each chapter is deliberately incomplete. Inspired by the folklore of the British Isles and my studies in medieval manuscripts and demonology, this novella is an ode to forgotten tales and half-remembered rhymes.

What are people saying?

Real words from readers!
  • “Hailing from a small, independent Newcastle publisher (just the way we like ‘em) this debut novel reads as a prose-poem meditation on faerie lore clearly penned by an author whose work is informed not just by the popular re-telling of folk tales, but by their mediaeval literary sources. Thus she creates her characters from a web of words studded with fantastic names – Whipitee Stourie, Nuckelavee, Nut-Nan – in a world of “bugs, bogies, boguns and bogles.” The wandering heroine, charged with being a changeling and exiled from what sounds like a post-apocalyptic village settlement, finds her destiny in the weird woods where the dense forest creates its own reality, peopled by the shadowy denizens of British folklore, rooted in their landscape and constantly engaged in an existence of riddles, tricks, quests, obligations and confrontations. With her pony, Poem, she must negotiate the wiles of half-revealed beings and the shifting, half-understood rules from which their world is shaped. Go with the flow of the prose and the pleasures of the words to get the most from this original voice.”
    Gail-Nina AndersonThe Crack Magazine
  • “…Ivy is a natural storyteller and has given a fresh and enlivened ‘tongue’ to the rhythm and devices of fairytale cant; effortlessly threading together the best of old tales and lore featuring the bright and macabre denizens of Celtic folklore…”
    Amazon Customer Review
  • Visit Narc Magazine for an interview on the inspiration behind ‘And Where Will You Go, Gan Dídean?’:
    Narc Magazine