by Orna Ross | Apr 7, 2016 | Fiction |
The first recorded Irish stories were Celtic. They presented our world as eternal, represented by the famous knotwork art produced for centuries in Ireland's monasteries. There are fewer stories about the moment of creation in Celtic culture than other tribes but one...
by Orna Ross | Apr 4, 2016 | Fiction |
“It was all ‘father, oh father’,” Bob Geldof says, mimicking a pious female voice addressing a priest. Then in his own voice: “Fuck off, you’re not my father.” Geldof is railing against Irish groveling to the Roman Catholic church in Fanatic Heart, a documentary...
by Orna Ross | Feb 14, 2016 | Fiction
Out today, in ebook: the first book of my WB Yeats – Maud Gonne trilogy in standalone edition. [The special edition edition is now withdrawn in ebook format but I do still have a few hardbacks editions of this gift-book left]. To buy the e-book in your favorite...
by Orna Ross | Feb 14, 2016 | Poetry
I’m writing this on Valentine’s Day 2016, at a sunny table outside Cole St cafe in The Haight, 6000 miles away from The Hub. He is in London, I am in San Francisco. But love is what the scientists call non-local and no problem for it to leap continent and ocean. He...
by Orna Ross | Feb 10, 2016 | Go Creative!
BBC interview with video journalist Dougal Shaw, together with other fab folk like Michael Tamblyn of Kobo, John Bond of Whitefox and others doing interesting selfpubbie things.
by Orna Ross | Jan 24, 2016 | Go Creative!
I've been doing little less blogging at the moment than usual as I work on my crazy creative challenge for 2016, to put out eleven books, a mixture of fiction and nonfiction, in one year. I didn't quite make the deadline of January for the first book as it won't...
by Orna Ross | Jan 5, 2016 | Go Creative!
I've so many books close to being finished that need me to push them through and over the line. Truth is, I've been struggling with the finishing phase of the writing process and driving myself a little nuts. So I'm deciding to get proactive instead of passive nutty,...
by Orna Ross | Nov 21, 2015 | The Rest
If you'd like to snap up Blue Mercy at a bargain price, it's 30% off in the Kobo store just now. Use the coupon code at checkout: NOV30 You can read the book on any reading device or smart phone. Enjoy!
by Orna Ross | Nov 13, 2015 | The Rest
Discover how e-books by independent authors continue to sell in greater numbers than trade-published works in our weekly round up of self-publishing news from the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) Author Advice Centre. The post highlights the competing sales data...
by Orna Ross | Nov 6, 2015 | The Rest
Publishing events of interest to indie authors are an increasing fixture on the literary calendar, and the self-publishing news from my friends at the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) this week highlights a two-in-one conference coming up in London at the end...