Tom Muir's
~ Tales in the Landscape ~
Preserving Island Heritage
Orcadian writer and storyteller, Tom Muir, MBE, with his wife and creative partner, Rhonda, is crafting an unusual, entertaining and culturally vital book.
Together with the extremely talented Hester Aspland, Tom and Rhonda are making and publishing Tales in the Landscape - a whimsical story-guide through the Orkney Mainland.
Along with Tom's local stories, Tales in the Landscape will be amply graced with Hester's gorgeous illustrations, bringing the tales to life, as they deserve.
Archive and full-color photos will further enhance this book celebrating Orkney's storied landscape.
You can read the whole story on our Crowdfunder page.
A peedie story in the landscape
Stretching the target
We're crowdfunding to raise money to pay Hester fairly for her beautiful illustrations for this book. With the help of many kind friends (see our wall of thank you below) we've reached our initial target!
Thanks to this early success, we've been encouraged to add a "stretch" target, which allows additional parts of our project to be funded during the remainder of our campaign.
Stage one ...
Stage one of the stretch funding is to commission even more of Hester's images for Tales in the Landscape, as our original target is base level to enable a minimum of Hester's incredible artwork.
A maximum would be so much better!
A small sample of Hester's art
Stage two builds on this success.
The exciting news is that we're planning a second volume of Tales in the Landscape to follow closely on the heels of the first, this time featuring locations and tales in Orkney's north and south isles.
We're going to ask Hester to illustrate this upcoming book as well - and again, we'd love for the illustrations to be many and lavish.
Another peedie tale in the landscape
A leap of faith
With Tom retiring early on half pay, your encouraging support truly does make all the difference in our being able to produce these special books and make them what they deserve to be.
Tom Muir, writer, storyteller, historian and half of the Orkneyology teamYou can read more about the book, the author, the artist on our Crowdfunder page.
We can hardly express in words our gratitude to every one of you, our friends, who have joined us in making these books come to life.
From our hearts, we thank you.
Dedicated to each of you kind and generous souls, you have made this book possible.
We give you our deepest thanks.
Tom and Rhonda
Susan Malcolm - I look forward to reading your books. More power to your pens. :)
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Colin Urwin
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Stewart Massie
Paige Cavanaugh – Such an exciting project to get behind! Thank you for all that you do to help protect the stories of Beloved Orkney. ❤️
Sandra Regan
Jeff Lown
Catriona Montgomery
Kevin Wooldrage
Therese Christie – Good luck for your project.
Graham Howe
Ellen Grieve – What a valuable and beautiful project to add to the Orkney stories collection.
Rachel Bellerose
Beverley Bryant –Wonderful to be able to contribute in a small way to see this project get underway.
Natalie Orr – Can’t wait to read it! 😊
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Terji Beder – Best of luck!
David Shepherdson
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Ingrid Budge
Chris Read – Glad to help.
Jean A Hale – Tom, I'm celebrating our wonderful friend, Davy Cooper, today. Raising a pint glass and a camera in his honor! Sending you and Rhonda many good wishes.
Jill Murphy – Sounds like a wonderful project! Wishing you the very best in all you do.
Samantha Gray
Áine King
Anna Maria Espsater –Best of luck!
Sarah Deco
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Morag Potter
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Katrina Mainland
Sarah Brunea – Love you both! This project is going to be so cool.
Margaret & Liz Tulloch – Every success Meggie an Liz xxx
Erin
alisballance – Sounds fabulous! All the very best to you both with this x
Rob Traill Thomson –Tom & Rhonda, all the best on your latest ventures, love from North Lodge xx
Riikka Palonen
Debbie Black
Fran Hollinrake
Annabel Eltome – Wishing you every success, Tom.
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Liz Friend
Max Fletcher
Linda Williamson – Great good wishes and a thousand blessings along with my wee donation to your illustrated landscape stories, Tom and Rhonda, new book with Hester Aspland. This will be absolutely wonderful for Orkney, Scotland, the UK and all round the world; can't wait to have my copy!!
Cindy L Wacholtz – To the next adventures.....
Liz Weir
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Kate Stahl-Kovell – Cheering you on! Can’t wait to read more of your work, Tom!
Linda Beardsley
Jill Murphy
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