Greetings folks! It’s been a long time, but I have been busily working away. I am almost done with Book 7 of The Swithen and that will be going to the proofreader soon, but in the meantime I have worked on another project. A new translation and guided reading of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur.

If you’ve ever tried to read Le Morte d’Arthur and not gotten very far, this is the book for you. I walk you through an easy new translation of the text, stopping every few paragraphs to explain what’s happening and what it all means. It’s also aimed at the average person who likes Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings and maybe just wants to check out what this King Arthur stuff is all about—so it’s not pretentious and lofty, it’s casual and funny and really just about helping you get through.

P.S. This is just Book One of the Twenty-One Book work, but it still amounts to 183 pages and still includes the sword in the stone, Merlin, the Lady of the Lake and Excalibur. I will continue moving on to the other books in time and by the end will have one huge new translation and guide to Malory’s monumental work.

This is a project that definitely evolved from a small idea. On my YouTube channel @theswithenbookseries my videos do okay… but the one called How to Read Le Morte d’Arthur outperforms them all by thousands of views. So I thought, “I’ll do a series that goes through Le Morte d’Arthur chapter by chapter.” Then I realized that I couldn’t include any of Malory’s text, because it is a copyrighted translation. So I thought it was time to do my own translation. And then I thought it should be a book. And then I thought there should be an intro and a afterward… so it all just started and continued to grow. 

Anyway, if you’ve ever wanted to read Le Morte d’Arthur but been intimidated by the text, give it a shot! It is only ebook now, but the paperback will follow soon. Thanks, and Book 7 of The Swithen should be out in the Fall.