I never thought when I was fifteen and listening to Donovan that someday I would be a songwriter with a recorded song!
As of today, I am just that. Druidsong, a marvelous Celtic artist, has recorded my song "The Ballad of Rory McGuinness" which I wrote about 43 uears ago to be a song "by" my novel's Shannon O'Neill about an event that takes place in the course of the novel, An Involuntary King: A Tale of Anglo Saxon England - see right.
The current lyrics are more recent, and the melody has been arranged by Druidsong for his own performance. The song will be on his upcoming album, due out sometime in June. I, of course, will gleefully play the track on my Celtic radio station, Radio Dé Danann!
In the meantime you can listen to and purchase a download of this ballad at http://druidsong.bandcamp.com/ .
This just might be one of my top ten most exciting moments of my life!
Then if after you have heard the song, you want to know what really happened to Rory, buy my book! It's available on Amazon.com, Kindle and on Smashwords. It is also available for the print impaired reader in text and Braille output formats at BookShare.org.
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