Forgotten Rites Publishing produces two kinds of books: mythology-rooted fiction and practical nonfiction for Irish Pagan practitioners. Sometimes those lines blur. They’re supposed to.
Donald Quill
The Waking Ground series
Five-book epic fantasy — in progress
Set on the island of Tura, a world that mirrors pre-Christian Ireland in its landscape, culture, and spiritual practice. Corra is a common-born teenager with hidden Rememberer lineage, carrying the power to speak the true names of places that a conquering regime has spent thirty years trying to erase. The series follows her from her first accidental awakening to the restoration of the living compact between the people of Tura and the land itself.
Five books. One war. The land is paying attention.
Songs of the Crowmother
Celtic fantasy trilogy
Ancient Ireland at the edge of collapse. Something called the Hollowed (later the Perfected) is spreading across the land, offering peace and prosperity at the cost of individual will. Queens, priests, warriors, and an immortal guardian have to decide what consciousness is actually worth.
Book 1: Echoes of the Otherworld — Ríona, High Priestess of the Morrígan, is called to retrieve the Heartstone of Danu and must travel beyond the veil to do it.
Book 2: Broken Rites — The Lia Fáil has vanished from Tara, the Hollowed are spreading, and an unlikely alliance of High Priestess, exiled queen, and reluctant leader may be Ireland’s last option.
Book 3: Ash and Feather — Twelve years after the Hollowed War, Queen Medb has returned with the Perfected. And Ainé, daughter of High Queen Neassa, is the one person who can sense the infection spreading through Tara’s heart.
Irish Wheel of the Year series
Nonfiction for Irish Pagan practitioners
Three decades of practice, put into writing. These aren’t general Pagan books with Celtic names swapped in. They’re for practitioners who want to engage seriously with the Irish tradition: its mythology, its sacred landscape, its theology, its actual history.
Living the Irish Wheel of the Year — The core guide. All eight festivals of the Irish calendar, extensive chapters on working with Irish deities including Brigid, the Dagda, Lugh, the Mórrígan, and Manannán mac Lir, and substantial practical guidance for modern practitioners in the diaspora.
The Spring Equinox: Balance Beneath the Blossoms — An expanded companion to the vernal equinox. Mythology of Aengus Óg, Boann, and Danu. Archaeology of Loughcrew’s Cairn T. Irish folk customs, ritual, inner work, altar guidance, seasonal recipes.
Beltane: Fire at the Threshold — A 46,000-word companion to the largest festival of the Irish Pagan year. The mythology of the Dagda and the Mórrígan at the ford. Sacred landscape including Uisneach and Tara. The hawthorn, the need-fire, folk custom from across Ireland and Scotland, ritual for solitary and group practice.
The House on Ashburn Street
Supernatural horror
Dana Wilder is four years sober, has custody of her kids back, and just moved into a 19th-century colonial in New England. What’s living at 47 Ashburn Street has been there longer than the foundation stones. A supernatural horror novel about recovery, family, and what it means to fight an entity that views human consciousness as a disease.
From the Threads of Silence
Mythopoeic fiction
A cosmological epic about the birth and fracture of reality itself. The First Light ignites the world. The Zorani — divine stewards of light — split over the question of freedom versus order, and the war that follows rewrites the laws of creation. In the tradition of mythopoeic fiction that takes the question of existence seriously.
Where the Gods Sleep
Dark fantasy trilogy — forthcoming
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D.R. Quill
Oaths of Steel and Shadow
Viking romantasy series
Norse mythology. Dark romance. The kind of story where the gods actually show up and the price they ask is real.
Blade and Bone: Oath of Steel and Shadow — Astrid Bjornsdottir died on a battlefield. Freyja brought her back with a mission: infiltrate Erik Bloodaxe’s hall, steal back a god-forged weapon, return it to Asgard before the draugr consume the Nine Realms. The plan was simple. Feel nothing. But Freyja bound their souls together so Astrid could find Erik’s weakness — and instead the bond shows her the truth. Launching May 1, 2026. ARC copies available on NetGalley now.
Book 2: Iron & Ash — In development.
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