Song of the Elves

Epic fantasy novels and short stories by David Charles Shepherd

World Book Day 2009

| February 27, 2009

Celebrate World Book Day this year by downloading Chapters 1 to 6 of A  Shadow Falls, without even having to register.  If you like what you read, sign in on your next visit and download the whole book for free. For those of you returning to the site, welcome back.  I’ve done some further research [...]

Get chapters 4 to 6 now!

| February 19, 2009

Great news! You can now get more for free at www.songoftheelves.com without registering. Chapters 4 to 6 of A Shadow Falls are now available as a free download without having to register at the site. Hopefully, if you like what you read, you can return, register and dowload the rest of A Shadow Falls for [...]

Salute to the Colonel

| February 14, 2009

After a doing little digging, I now have the facts on the sad demise of the Sandbach town cat.  The Colonel, as he was named by the folk who work and live on and around the cobbles, was only five years old when he succumbed to health problems, which had ‘dogged’ him since kittenhood. Attempts [...]

Sighting

| February 7, 2009

A few weeks back I paid tribute to the Sandbach town cat gone missing presumed dead – or is he? The other night, following a few delightful hours amongst great company in the L.C., I set off back into the biting cold night and as I left the cobbles saw a familiar shape emerging from [...]

Driven by History

| February 1, 2009

I am currently re-drafting the beginning of my latest novel, The Mirror of His Soul.  The action opens in Cheshire, and I’ve been spending a lot of time in the market towns along the Staffordshire border researching the various locations and venues for early scenes in the novel. The Roman, Saxon and Civil War history [...]