Happy new year!

Happy 2021! All of D. K. Broster's solo-authored works* are now officially in the public domain in countries where the term of copyright is the author's life + 70 years or less—this includes most of Europe and various countries in other parts of the world (including, as far as I can see, all the countries of people currently in Flight of the Heron fandom :D).

By a neat coincidence, Flight of the Heron, along with everything Broster published before it, is also now in the public domain in the US.


Since I think this is a good opportunity to encourage more people to read these excellent books...


Works by D. K. Broster on Gutenberg.org (expect to see a couple more here before too long...!)

Works by D. K. Broster on Fadedpage.com

Works by D. K. Broster on Archive.org


Happy reading :D


*I'm not sure about her co-authored works, as I haven't been able to find biographical information about either G. W. Taylor (co-wrote Chantemerle and The Vision Splendid) or G. Forester (co-wrote World Under Snow)—if they lived longer than 1950, those books would presumably still be in copyright.

Yuletide author reveals

And now that reveals have happened, here's what I wrote...

But Give Me Wings Like Noah's Dove (8892 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Cargill - King Creosote (Song)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cargill/Singer (Cargill - King Creosote)
Characters: Singer (Cargill - King Creosote), Cargill (Cargill - King Creosote)
Additional Tags: Fishing, Scotland, World War I, Injury
Summary:

The fortunes of a sailor.

Historical Scottish m/m with war, hurt/comfort and romantic fluff, but not Jacobites this time :D The song Cargill by King Creosote has been my happiest new thing this Yuletide—I picked it up from a fandom rec and then ended up being assigned to write for it. It's a lovely song and I recommend it! And I really enjoyed writing this story, which involved a lot of interesting historical research. :)


The Education of a Magician (2191 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: Worldbuilding, 1990s, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

York, 1997. A schoolteacher reads a peculiar essay on the history of Faerie.

Some JSMN worldbuilding! I don't usually write much modern anything, so it was an interesting and enjoyable experiment taking the world of JSMN through into the 1990s.


On That One Spot of Earth (2072 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ewen Cameron/Keith Windham
Characters: Keith Windham, Ewen Cameron
Additional Tags: Growing Old Together, Botany, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Keith Windham reflects on the surroundings and occupations of a peaceful retirement.

The least anonymous exchange fic I've posted, I think :) My FotH fic had been getting steadily more angsty over time, so it was great fun writing something uncomplicatedly happy and fluffy for my favourite OT3, Ewen/Keith/Ardroy. And some fun historical stuff as well!


Concerning the Language of Birds (1286 words) by regshoe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Sixteen | Sarah Raphael, Piranesi | Matthew Rose Sorensen
Additional Tags: Birds, Post-Canon, Yuletide Treat
Summary:

Sarah Raphael gets to know the inhabitants of the House.

Finally, this little experiment inspired by the bird life of Piranesi and a certain ornithological passage from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.