by Orna Ross | Feb 15, 2019 | Fiction |
This is an extract from Dancing In The Wind, the second book in my WB Yeats trilogy. It is narrated by a working-class Irish Parisienne, Rosie. Iseult Gonne has been dispatched to London by her mother, Maud Gonne, to get her longtime friend and one-time suitor, WB...
by Orna Ross | Feb 8, 2019 | Fiction, Go Creative! |
Writing a trilogy is a massive undertaking and I'm at work on Book 2 of my Yeats trilogy, Dancing in the Wind (while continuing the incubation work on the final novel of my Irish trilogy, In the Hour.) That's the fiction fun around here at the moment. So how do you...
by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2019 | Fiction |
I get a lot of emails asking about In The Hour, the final book in my Irish Trilogy. I'm pleased to say that work has started. It's in the earliest stage and I haven't put down a delivery date yet. I've learned through painful experience not to do that while I'm still...
by Orna Ross | Nov 23, 2018 | Fiction |
Friday fiction: Just Do It is an extract from After The Rising, my first novel and the first book in the Irish trilogy. Jo has left Ireland for London and is drinking too much and achieving too little. Something has to give, and in this extract it does. I’m in...
by Orna Ross | Nov 16, 2018 | Fiction |
Friday fiction: Just Be Yourself is an extract from Below The Fall, the second book in the Irish trilogy. Jo has ended up in San Francisco, by way of London and hasn't been home in ten years. She has quite drinking and friends, job, lifestyle have all been...
by Orna Ross | Nov 9, 2018 | Fiction |
Excerpt from: Dancing In the Wind: Chapter 3 The story so far: Having rejected, and been rejected by, the poet WB Yeats, Maud Gonne has decided to marry another. In this extract, she breaks the news to her daughter Iseult, whom she has placed in a convent so she can...