13/08/2025
My dear friend
Dear friends, wild kin, and beloved soul companions,
After four years of deep creation, unraveling, reweaving and a great deal of listening; my book is almost complete. And what a journey it has been.
I’ve walked through doubts.
I’ve asked hard questions.
I’ve been reshaped by the very birds I sought to honour.
What began as a single book grew wings far wider than I expected. Their stories, teachings, and presence were too rich for one flight alone… and so I chose to split the work into a series, allowing each to breathe and sing in their own right.
This work has taken everything: my heart, my spirit, my patience, and my reverence. It’s been a quiet ritual of remembering, not just folklore, but my own place in the web of wing and wonder.This journey has not been simple.
I’ve faced doubts, silences, and initiations.
I’ve had to unlearn, relearn, and listen deeply to every call, caw, and whisper.
Each bird revealed more than I ever imagined, and in honouring them truthfully, I found I had to let the work stretch beyond its original shape.
To write these books, I had to live them.
To manifest them, I had to become quieter, slower, more reverent.
To honour their stories, I had to honour my own.
I’ve gained more knowledge, more humility, and more awe along the way. And through it all, your patience, your encouragement, and your trust have meant more than I can say. Thank you for staying with me through the slow unfolding.
Very soon, Voices from the Veil (Corvid family) will open the first gate in the Featherlore series. May these works not only enchant, but also serve, awaken, and guide. I hope they feel like a returning to yourself, to nature, to the unseen threads that bind us. May it be meaningful.
From my nest to yours,
with feathered love,
Victoria x