The Angel Mountain Blog

  In the ongoing work to adapt the Angel Mountain Saga into something suitable for a multi-episode TV costume drama, we have taken a good deal of advice from people who know the industry inside out -- and one thing that they all say is this: "The supernatural element in these stories is a huge selling point.  So make the most of it!" We don't want to turn the stories into gothic horror tales, sci-fi or fantasy tales like "Game of Thrones" -- that would be to destroy their character and their focus.  So we don't want dragons, or monsters, or aliens.  Just human beings and horses, involved in pitched and bloody medieval battle, so appalling that Martha cannot bear to watch it, and is completely traumatised afterwards.   But yes, Martha sees things that others do not, and this leads her to be accused of witchcraft on several occasions when it suits her enemies to start whispering campaigns against her.  In this context, her occasional sightings of Battles in t...

This is a short snippet from the introduction of "Dark Angel" released by Bolinda to coincide with the issue of the new audiobook.  Enjoy!

  This is the image created by those nice people over at Bolinda to accompany the marketing materials for  the audio version of "Dark Angel."  Quite effective, methinks.......

  I was quite chuffed when Bolinda told me that Audible -- by far the biggest retailer of audiobooks -- has chosen Dark Angel for one of its "picks of the week" selections.  So here it is on the promotional page, in rather august company.   So let's hope for a tidy boost to sales......

  This is a very atmospheric image which I found somewhere on the web, in a number of different versions.  The weird thing about it is that the phantom figure's shadow is doubled up, and lying in quite the wrong direction, given the position of the moon and the source of the light.  But maybe phantoms don't have to abide by the laws of physics......

The new Bolinda audiobook of Dark Angel flags up the main story of love lost and found, with rather autumnal colouring -- but in the background there is the other story, altogether darker and more sinister.  This is all about the mysterious cloaked figure called The Nightwalker, who seems to be stalking Martha, appearing now and then through the mist and even appearing and disappearing in a snowstorm.  Is he the Grim Reaper?  Or the Devil?  Or just a harmless ghost?  Towards the end of the tale, all is revealed.......

  Assorted images of Preseli, published by various people on Facebook.  This really an unchanging landscape -- Richard Fenton and Mistress Martha would have seen essentially the same views.

 This is a gorgeous image of those famous rocks at Ceibwr -- published on the Moylgove web site, to whom many thanks.....

 Cwrt, not far from Llanychaer, is a good model.  Paul White, whose wonderful photo galleries I much admire, took some photos here before it was rescued and renovated.  Here is a link: https://www.welshruins.co.uk/about.html

I had to share this lovely image of a young raven -- thanks to Tony.  It was published in The Star newspaper, and presumably comes from somewhere near Sheffield.  But it could be on Carningli! Photographer unknown. Apparently ravens are expanding their range -- having declined seriously over the past century, they are making a comeback, and are reappearing in many urban areas.  So that's a bit of good news in these dismal times.....

THE ANGEL MOUNTAIN SHOW SERIES ONE, April 2020 This series of informal chats was first broadcast in April 2020, at the height of the pandemic lockdown.  they were designed to give fans of the series some background information on the narrative and the creative process. Until now, they have just been available to Facebook users,  but now I have put them onto YouTube, so they can be accessed by everybody.  They are a bit rough and ready, and probably need editing, but anyway, enjoy!! =============== No 1: Preamble https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/2399012223691886/ https://youtu.be/Yb75Gp_0BH4 No 2: A funny thing happened……. https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/238725063997259/ https://youtu.be/dZ8swgE1HLw No 3: Martha’s Magic https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/268802384158892/ https://youtu.be/2qNHvnTpV3o No 4: Martha and the Angels https://www.facebook.com/TheAngelMountainSaga/videos/925589211197047/ https://youtu.be/D_...