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Creative Writing: Behind the books
Posts In This category Are About My Research Process And The People & Places That Inspired The Books
Dancing in the Wind: Extract 4: The Teller of the Tale
The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in…
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Dancing in the Wind: Extract 3: Who is Rosie?
The story opens in 1916. The world is at war, Irish freedom fighters have just staged an armed rebellion in…
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Join my Reader Group and Help me Develop my new Novel: In The Hour
Do you love fiction? Would you like to help shape my next novel, In the Hour? I now post short…
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IN THE HOUR Haiku Planning
I recently learned the most marvelous story planning technique from fiction writer and teacher Linda Cracknell—using haiku to outline/plan your…
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New Novel Writing Process for IN THE HOUR
I am sooooo keen to get back to fiction, even though I’ve a lot of nonfiction projects still to finish….
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How the Commercial can Nourish the Creative: Inspirations and Ideas: Week 44. 2019
On Tuesdays, from now on, I will share snippets from my Writing notebook. I make these notebooks myself and you can purchase them online and here on this website.
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Friday Fiction: Interview About The Irish Trilogy with Regina Joyce Clarke
I thought you might enjoy this selection from an in-depth interview I’ve just done with author Regina Joyce Clarke. The full…
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Friday Fiction: Work Has Started on In The Hour
I get a lot of emails asking about In The Hour, the final book in my Irish Trilogy. I’m pleased…
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Her Secret Rose Inspires Tattoo
That’s a picture of Lovely Son, above and yes! that is a tattoo of the Secret Rose symbol on his chest….
Continue readingWB Yeats & Maud Gonne: The Greatest Love Story That Never Was?
Out today, in ebook: the first book of my WB Yeats – Maud Gonne trilogy in standalone edition. [The special…
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