Tag: Folk Stories
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#BeBrazen at Events
Team Brazen Folk Horror smoothly divide and conquers! Ruthann represents us at American events, and Natasha will swan about Scotland. For starters! The next event on the Brazen Folk Horror calendar is StokerCon, presented by The Horror Writers Association. As members, it’s a given we support this fantastic and important event on the Horror literary…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Delevan Diaries
Desperate for book II? Preorder the eBook here. To secure your co-signed softcover or hardcover now, email us at brazenfolkhorror@gmail.com with your name and email address, and we will add you to our print preorder list. #BeBrazen
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The Cast of Delevan House #12
Mauve is introduced in Delevan House in the chapter ‘Ripples’, during Caoimhe Liùsaidh Delevan’s birth. Mauve, along with Fraoch, are the only two of Lenore Delevan’s flock of crows whose names are shared with our readers in book I. Her appearance spans several chapters, and readers discover Mauve’s magical creation and naming in ‘Bringing Down…
Natasha Sinclair
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#BeBrazen Saturday
Last week we shared some insight into one of our most loved characters, The Threnody. The character who haunted Ruthann’s dreams, demanding to be created as a conduit between worlds that exist in Delevan House. The Threnody enhances the mother in us both. Perhaps our edgewalker touched your heart too? Please enjoy Ruthann reading an…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Cast of Delevan House #10
The Green Stones It’s always interesting when we can assign a personality or humanize the importance of inanimate objects in a story. There are unusual stones associated with Delevan House in a prominent way, and for some characters, as well as the village of Badb, their meaning is life-altering. Or life-ending. Using extensive historical research…
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The Cast of Delevan House #9
One Should Keep Walking from a Walker We all know the easy analogies…like a month to a flame…stand too close to the fire, and you’ll get burned…on and on. But what IS it in our nature that compels us to cling to the relentless magnetic draw of a person we know is despicable but still…
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Intermission
With spring holidays on both sides of the Brazen Folk Horror world, which means no breaks for us directly, rather the opposite, we are having a small intermission between the weekly Delevan House cast articles. For now, feel free to peruse our backlog of reading right here, and, in case you haven’t heard it enough…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Cast of Delevan House #8
Nicnevin is the absolute source of the immortal characters readers will meet reading Delevan House. Beyond the epigraph opening the novel, chosen because it is the first documented mention of Nicnevin, a quotation from Alexander Montgomerie’s Flyting against fellow poet Patrick Hume #brazenreaders are introduced to our Nicnevin in the chapter ‘Appellation of Fae and…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Cast of Delevan House #7
Mairi Pivona (Voni) McQueeney was born under a crescent moon on a Wednesday. At the time, no one celebrating the birth of the screaming girl knew precisely how much woe she’d be capable of. Some of her Traveller family whisper that knots must have been left tied during her mother’s pregnancy. They were a proud…
Ruthann Jagge-Author
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The Cast of Delevan House #6
Elspeth Jane Ogilvy dropped out of university and disappeared from her life in Glasgow. The pressure from her family to live her life a particular way was too much. Elspeth knew they’d never respect her decision to leave. She was an intelligent young woman, but she never had much say in her path in life.…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Cast of Delevan House #4
Minerva Morven is our woman of a certain age. Though a resident of Badb village, she’s not one to indulge or engage in casual conversation or frivolous outings. No one would describe her as outgoing or even friendly. Something off-putting about her keeps other villagers at arm’s length. Despite her average appearance, Minerva commands and…
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The Cast of Delevan House #3
This week you’ll learn a bit more about what makes Robert Lawrence Gorgon tick. Though no more than you’ll discover from visiting Badb village, where his clan resides. Robert’s bloodline in the village is strong, as is his arrogance. That, too, is in part, genetics if you consider his ancestor, Lawrence Gordon. Robert’s weakness, however,…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Cast of Delevan House #2
Jenna McCray’s Taste of Scotland Jenna McCray’s first drink in Scotland, when the New Yorker find herself in the coastal village of Anand, is a pint of Scottish-brewed heather ale, Fraoch. Why? Well, it’s Natasha’s favourite Scottish Ale, and there are plenty of flavoursome brews available! While as far as alcohol is concerned, the Scots…
Natasha Sinclair
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Open Doors
Thank you to everyone who has purchased, shared, reviewed and supported Brazen Folk Horror’s debut collaborative release! The doors to Delevan House are officially open, and we have had an extraordinary time hearing and reading our guests’ thoughts! We treasure every one of you. Print copies are now being shipped and arriving with readers who…
Natasha Sinclair
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Imbolc 2023
Everything we do here at Delevan House is by design, and here’s why we chose this specific date for the release of Book I in our trilogy. Imbolc is a pagan holiday celebrated from February 1st through sundown on February 2nd. Based on Celtic tradition, Imbolc marks the halfway point between the winter solstice and…
Natasha Sinclair
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Delevan House Launch Exclusive
Launch week is almost upon us! Digital and print editions will go live worldwide from 1st February! Even our chosen release date was not selected blindly. Imbolc relates directly to one of the cast of Delevan House. Perhaps when you read the novel, you’ll spot the link! We are giving away an exclusively designed, limited,…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Making of Delevan House #19
The release of Delevan House is only a month away! And trust us when we say there will be far deeper articles shared on Brazen Folk Horror about the lore within those pages. Delevan House’s influences are ancient, and the execution of her story is brazenly modern. Until she’s out, we’ve been careful not to…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Making of Delevan House #Interlude
Slow seduction is always the best kind. Natasha and Ruthann wish all your holiday dreams come true, we’ll be sharing ours with you all through the new year! #BeBrazen
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The Making of Delevan House #17
The Chill of a Cold Moon The last full moon of 2022 hit the sky in all its brazen glory this week; The Cold Moon. Some say it’s the time to reflect, be still, and prepare for the rest Winter brings. Others believe the name connects to the Solstice later in December, bringing us the…
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The Making of Delevan House #16
That Which is Destined to Repeat Rituals and traditions feature in every culture throughout the known world and have done for as long as the tendrils of human history stretch. They are essential to “who we are and what we do,” especially during this time of the year. A ritual is a series of actions…
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The Making of Delevan House #14
Twisting History We’ve spent many hours researching in the dusty corners of “Delevan House.” When we decided our story would cross genres, the challenge of writing with a broader audience of readers in mind, in addition to our usual dark speculative styles, became glaringly obvious. We’ve learned to meet any challenge together head-on! Dealing with…
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The Making of Delevan House #12
Going Rogue The earliest use of the term is regarding elephants. There are “elephants” in any room, group, gathering, or social structure. “There is always a reason why these giant pachyderms go rogue, and here in this report, we seemed to be able to define this one clearly: if then the tusk were growing into…
Ruthann Jagge-Author
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Delevan House Announcement
Imbolc is situated between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. It’s a Celtic festival celebrated across Scotland and Ireland since the Neolithic period (at least that’s as far back as we have evidence, it may well be older). Heralding the changing seasons, Imbolc celebrates ‘First Milk’ as the northern hemisphere welcomes spring. It’s a time of…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Making of Delevan House #11
Samhain Weekend Samhain (All Hallows Eve) signals the end of the year for some. As nature’s wheel turns, the season cycles towards peace found in Winter incubation before unfolding into Spring, blooming in Summer, and then making way to Harvest season again. Samhain welcomes the dark side of two halves. As one of the four…
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The Making of Delevan House #9
Writers on vacation? My girl is in the mountains; I picture her standing high, overlooking the land in a circlet of evergreens painted in autumnal splendour. Lungs expanding with pure oxygen from ancient trees. They gift us life, our ancestors; above and below. They filter the poisons that we pollute the air with. Correcting our…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Making of Delevan House #8
The Art of Seductive Reasoning Some may consider life and all of its complexities purely deductive, where two or more ideas come together to form a conclusion based on evidence, intuition, or fact. We’re throwing this out of an arched window here at Delevan House. Watching those fragmented pieces scatter to the wind with cackles…
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The Making of Delevan House #7
The first day of October leaves us speechless, as it’s the official entrance to everything Autumn, our favorite time of the year. No words adequately describe the beauty of it. Some despise the inevitable decay, the fading of colors, and the decline into the restless stillness this season of fire precludes. Others, and we are…
Ruthann Jagge-Author
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The Making of Delevan House #6
How does a writer living in Texas, USA and another living in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, write books together? We’re not on brooms; we’re on zoom! This is how we collaborate, in part, at least. Zoom meetings accompanied by daily messages, emails and notes in our shared office. How amazing is that? Sharing an office with…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Making of Delevan House #5.2
In the Northern Hemisphere, the year’s Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to Autumn Equinox. This year the Moon graces the earth with her sunlit radiance in the dark on September 10th. She knows how to take centre stage effortlessly, and we all look up. There’s no difference between this moon and her other…
Natasha Sinclair
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The Making of Delevan House #5.1
Living on a rural ranch has taught me a genuine appreciation for nature and the night sky. Not that I didn’t always love watching clouds, but things hit you differently when there are no city lights to obstruct your view. While sitting around a crackling fire pit in September, you can hear the sounds of…
Ruthann Jagge-Author
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