![]() ![]() We crave your patience and support!įor practical purposes, we’ll probably start with just Taliessin Through Logres and see how that turns out. Oh, and we have to carve out time for this enormous task from our day jobs, teaching, editing, taking courses, writing other papers and books and stories and poems, serving on committees, running a Press, running a Department, running on the soccer field, and much, much more. We need to synchronize our various documents and annotation methods to come up with something relatively streamlined and definitely workable. We have to decide what route we want to use for publication, then formally propose the project. We have to work on getting the necessary permissions from the appropriate copyright holders of the texts we’d like to use. We’ll make this as much of a community project as possible, so stay tuned for ways you can help out! We’ll consult with various CW scholars on dubious points. We’ve got a plan laid out to include material from Williams’s prose explications, Lewis’s commentary, notes by Anne Ridler and others from among CW’s “disciples,” an MA thesis that attempted a similar project, and more. Among the three of us, we bring interests and expertise in literature, theology, and the occult, so we should be able to cover everything. Carla Arnell of Lake Forest College in Illinois and one of her students, Sam Bickersteth. That’s right! I’m delighted that this is not a solo project, but instead a joint effort with Dr. …and then, I had to meet collaborators with whom I could work and who would keep me accountable. I had to learn a bit about modern occultism (which turned out to involve getting a PhD!) I had to learn a bit about Arthuriana (which turned out to include editing The Inklings and King Arthur). But a few important things had to happen first. That’s right! Ever since CW published The Region of the Summer Stars in 1944–or since Taliessin through Logres in 1938–or arguably even since Heroes and Kings in 1930, we’ve need an annotated edition of his dense and difficult poetry. I’m working on The Annotated Arthuriad of Charles Williams. At long last, after fourteen years, I have begun the project for which I have been preparing myself all my life. My dear readers! I have a very exciting announcement. Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like me to address. ![]() A series of “ Writing Tips” over on the Press’s TikTok account. Gardeners of the Galaxies, which I’m editing with Brenton Dickieson (of A Pilgrim in Narniafame).ġ0. My dissertation book, at some point, if the publisher to whom I submitted it ever gets back to me?ĩ. course on The Inklings’ Magical Milieu(which will be available for audit, BTW).Ĩ. An upcoming keynote talk for Mythmoot X on Tolkien’s only play, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son.ħ. Editorial work on all of these projects from the Signum University Press (and probably an introduction, chapter, etc. My life’s work! The long-anticipated Annotated Arthuriad of Charles Williams.ĥ. Scripts for a course from Wondrium/ The Teaching Company on The Life and Works of C.S. It’s an adaptation of a Greek myth, and I think you’d like it.ģ. The next story comes out this Thursday (March 16th, 2023), so hurry over if you’d like that one. My short story collection Shall These Bones Breathe? to which you can subscribe in monthly installments (although you’d get those as part of an Author’s Circle package). ![]() This blog (theoretically! it tends to get neglected).Ģ. Here are all the projects I currently have underway:ġ. My salary as Editor-in-Chief is quite small, so anything I can earn by way of royalties is a great help, as we are a single-income family embarking on a new Homesteading adventure. I have so very many writing projects going on right now, and I’d dearly love to have you join me as financial supporter, encourager, beta reader, and accountability partner. ![]()
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