Yaaaaayyyy!!! Patricia Kenneally-Morrison is intending to do more Keltiad books! And she's self-publishing on Lulu!

For those of you who don't know, Patricia Kenneally-Morrison is the lady who was handfasted to Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the Doors. But before I ever knew about any of that, I knew she was one of the most captivating writers I'd ever read. I found her first novel, The Copper Crown, when I was shelving books at the library when I was 18 years old. A short description is "Kelts in Space". The more detailed description is, "What if the Celtic peoples of Earth had left Earth with the coming of Saint Patrick and made themselves a kingdom in a distant region of space, with magic and technology intertwined, a society fully infused with the true old religion and with a kick-ass Queen and about three thousand years of history behind them?"

I'm somewhat embarrased to say that the Keltiad books slightly inspired what I consider to be my best fanfiction, the Stargate SG-1 story "Bridge Between Worlds". Nothing overt, mind you, but definitely inspired. Of course they didn't have mecha in Keltia, or Goa'uld, but the planet in question is the capital world of the Empire of the Seven Nations, and the throne city Alaharu is situated on a coastline with the royal palace on a mountain and cliffs over the sea a la Eryrie and Caerdroia and Turusachan.

Loreena McKinnett's music is sort of like the musical equivalent of Keltia. Seriously. If they ever made a movie, they'd HAVE to get Loreena for the soundtrack.

Anyway, Miz Morrison didn't just do the first trilogy with Aeron and Gwydion. She went on to do another trilogy based on the Arthurian mythos, also in Keltia but 1500 years earlier than Aeron and Gwydion. Another book called "Blackmantle" about a character even earlier in Keltic history which was also a sort of biographical/tribute of herself and her other half, Mr. Jim. Lastly there was a book called "The Deer's Cry" which rather distressed me as it was not nearly as good as her other stuff and most uncharacteristic of her. I later learned she'd been trying to stuff an entire trilogy into one book. Yep, that'll do it. As detailed in her post of today, there was some trouble with her publishers and agents and editors and as usual the rassum-frassum "establishment" dropped her. And she dropped out of sight, at least until blogging came along.

But she's apparently come to the same conclusions I have regarding the publishing industry and self-publishing. What wonderment!

I got that warm fuzzy feeling of vidication. Ain't it grand?!