Chapter 22 of A Secret Gate is up today. Given the length of time it took to get it there, it ought to be a creation of flawless beauty and depth. I’m sad to say it isn’t; it has its moments, though ( Read more... )

I went the other day to look at something on my story website and nearly had a heart attack: it cannot possibly be more than SIX MONTHS since I last posted to A Secret Gate ( Read more... )

Hello! Chapter 21 of A Secret Gate is now up on my website (http://entropyhouse.com/elanor/secretgate.html), so I am once again journaling a few thoughts. (Also, I just noticed the other day that I have a few new Friends! How nice! Thank you, and I hope you don’t mind if ( Read more... )

Chapter 20

It has been four months (!) since I last posted a chapter to A Secret Gate: my excuses are an amalgam of Real Life, unexpected rites of passage, physical setbacks, intersections with the children’s busy adult lives, holidays-and a surprising mutiny in that part of my brain that quietly, and mostly benignly, oversees the creation of ( Read more... )

Chapter 19 of A Secret Gate is posted today. You can find it listed here: http://entropyhouse.com/elanor/secretgate.htmlRead more... )

Chapter 18.2 is added to A Secret Gate today: Mat Bucket arrives at Brandy Hall where he encounters all manner of surprises and-at last-reunites with Jamy ( Read more... )

As A Secret Gate progresses, it's getting a little hard to remember who's who in the extended families. A reader wrote me earlier today to ask if I had a set of family trees for my OC Took and Brandybuck families, and if I'd be willing to post it. As it happens, I do have a rather extensive one, and after a crash course in LJ formatting, I offer a ( Read more... )

A Secret Gate continues…with Chapter 18.1.

This is another chapter, like “the 12s” that got too big for its britches and had to be broken in two. It’s a bit of a cliffhanger as a result, which I know is frustrating, but the good news is that a whole lot of 18.2 is already written! ( Read more... )

At last! I give you Chapter Seventeen, in which we meet more of the Thain’s family and Pippin sets himself to tackle both his children and the Wide World with regard to his future. I have no reasonable excuses for the long delay in creating it; it just took forever to write! It’s here: Read more... )

Hooray! Rachel has summoned up pictures with a magic wand, it seems! They arrived barely a week after she got the text, and I hope you all will like them as much as I do. There are three, scattered through the text of Chapter 16 ( Read more... )