#cornishpiskey

[rj-anderson]

✨💎✨COVER REVEAL✨💎✨ 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙡𝙚, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚. Banished from her underground home by Betony, the queen of the Cornish piskeys, young Ivy sets out to forge a new life for herself in the world above. But a deadly threat lingers in the mine, and Ivy cannot bear to see her people suffer while Betony refuses to believe. Somehow she must convince the queen to let them go. ✨ Her mission only becomes more complicated when Ivy starts to dream of the ancient battles between her ancestors and the spriggan folk. Who is the strange boy in her visions? Could her glimpses of his past help Ivy find a new home for her fellow piskeys? ✨ To find the answers, Ivy must outfly vicious predators, outwit cunning enemies, and overcome her own greatest fears. And when evil threatens the people Ivy loves best, it will take all her courage, faith, and determination to save them. ✨ NOMAD is Book Two of the Flight and Flame Trilogy, and will be released in limited edition hardcover in November 2020. US readers can also preorder it right now at bit.ly/Nomad-Book for the fantastic sale price of $13.99... but hurry, the sale won’t last long! . . . . #yafantasy #IreadYA #fairybooks #fae #rjandersonwriter #preorder #coverlove #coverreveal #enclavepublishing #november2020 #nomad #nomadbook #flightandflametrilogy #EnclaveEscape #christianfantasy #piskey #pixie #pisky #cornishpiskey #cornishpisky #cornishpixie #spriggan #spriggans https://www.instagram.com/p/CAc2HWSAEYW/?igshid=197s2gwtiky0k

[rj-anderson]

Here we are with a new #mybookalphabet post: J is for Joan the Wad! . In Cornish folklore, Joan the Wad is the queen of the piskeys (the spelling I settled on for my #FlightandFiretrilogy - it’s also frequently spelled pisky or piskie, and of course pixie). An old English rhyme describes her as a capricious will-o’the-wisp, sometimes teasing human folk and sometimes guiding them to safety: . Jack O’Lantern, Joan the Wad, That tickled the maid and made her mad, Light me home, the weather's bad. . Generally, though, Joan the Wad is seen in Cornwall as a figure of good luck and protection, and Jack O’Lantern is her king or consort. So when I was creating the world of the Cornish piskeys for SWIFT, I decided on “Joan” as a title rather than a personal name for their queen. . It’s also, though I didn’t plan it this way, a small tribute to my mother, a true queen in every way — whose parents emigrated from Redruth in Cornwall to Timmins in northern Ontario a few years before she was born. They named her Joan, and she in turn gave me Joan as my middle name — that’s the J. in my initials. But my mother had never heard of Joan the Wad until she read my book, so I felt happy to have given her back a little lost piece of her Cornish ancestry. . Q: Do you have a favorite folk character or creature in your family background? I’d love to hear about it in comments! . . . #joanthewad #cornishpixie #cornishpixies #cornishpisky #cornishpiskey #spriggan #spriggans #folkloreandfairytales #britishfolklore #fairies #fae #fairytale #faery #faeriesofinstagram #fairybooks #rjandersonwriter #enclaveescape #enclavepublishing #yabooks #IReadYA #yareads #speculativefiction #christianfantasy #flightandflametrilogy #swift #swiftbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CAHGG2Xgu2x/?igshid=113e0jszkl6a8