https://www.michaeldmccartney.com/home daily 1.0 2026-05-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/1603130886688-G5M6QGUT4Z3G0WFUQX2M/DSC02207.JPG Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/fd2af9fe-4c7a-44e9-8237-90826b7f0798/IMG_0701.jpg Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/1603130938486-P6OC26EZ621HYDZ37KBQ/DSC02844.JPG Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/ec32759b-2de6-4e2f-b98e-5b9836fe302c/F7728A45-9D96-4AE9-A454-C0FA52B162DB.JPG Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/1603130354711-U55AX2021O6KSHJV66VB/image-asset.jpeg Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/1603130289775-C0IP02ZS28BXC3VMVV1L/image-asset.jpeg Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/1737514389121-52ZOQP60EGL0LBM65S0Y/unsplash-image-nEOAuElDZwk.jpg Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/1603131038651-DVQWM7XOS0XU829ZXVTX/DSC02208.JPG Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/8c5ffe0b-8e69-4242-b4c3-3199facb2a88/IMG_0103.jpg Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/ea9603ef-628b-47a0-bb8e-cab1505eef22/IMG_0931.jpg Michael D. McCartney, Mystery Author - Michael D. McCartney is a Cape Cod-based educator, librarian, actor, and writer. In his spare time he is a father, master of many arts, and amateur magical historian. https://www.michaeldmccartney.com/carmarthen-hall daily 0.75 2026-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/f879ee44-69b1-40cb-b826-20826c7d2f89/Michael+D.+McCartney+%282%29.jpg Books and Stories - A Subtler Magic A Story of Becoming the Lady of the Lake Third-Person | Adult Historical Fantasy England, 1940. Every night, the bombs fall. In London, Vivian drives her ambulance through the burning streets, tending to the wounded and dying with a steadiness her colleagues mistake for courage. It is not courage. It is duty - the only language she has ever been taught to speak. In Oxford, Dame Beryl stands alone in the cupola of the Radcliffe Camera and holds the magical defenses of the British Isles together by sheer force of will. Her body is failing. Her grief is vast. She has given everything to the protection of her country and her people, and she will give whatever remains. These two women have circled each other for years - mentor and heir, guardian and charge, each convinced that love and duty cannot coexist. But when a long-buried secret surfaces from the night that made Vivian an orphan, everything either woman believes about herself, about the other, and about the nature of magic begins to fracture. Set against the thunder of the Blitz and the ancient landscape of Arthurian Britain, A Subtler Magic is a novel about the cost of devotion, the courage it takes to remember, and the quiet, irresistible power of the one spell neither woman ever learned to cast. For readers of The Essex Serpent and Susanna Clarke. Status: Available September 1, 2026! Pre-Order Today! 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Wodehouse but always hoped that he might be ritually and necromantically combined with H.P. Lovecraft, you’re in luck! Status: One tale, A Shadow Over Mayfair, recently won honorable mention in the Emerging Writers and Illustrators of the Future Competition. Stay tuned for more! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f8dcd59b1ffd46d053be1fd/ccc4c89d-c8fb-417b-a7a5-19918e824877/neil-mark-thomas-yI2oV_RIceE-unsplash.jpg Books and Stories - “The Full Eldritch Breakfast” or “The Many (Deplorable) Holidays of Mr. Graham Broady” Short Story Collection| Humor/Parody After serving his country during the Second World War, Lt. Graham Broady, Junior Fellow of Necromancy at Carmarthen Hall, Oxford, desperately needs a rest. Unfortunately, wherever he goes - a B&B in Cornwall, a house party in Bedfordshire, hotels in Ireland and Torquay, a holiday camp in Wales, even a magical mystery tour across the midlands - he can’t seem to find the peace he’s so earnestly seeking. And when eldritch horrors are the best part of your trip, it may be time to find a new travel agent … Comp Titles: “Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar” by Neil Gaiman; “The Inimitable Jeeves” by P.G. Wodehouse; “Fawlty Towers” by John Cleese and Connie Booth; and “Johannes Cabal the Necromancer” by Jonathan L. Howard. 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