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The Creative No

The Creative No

Some people think going with the flow means doing anything that happens along. That's not the creative way. If you're saying “yes” to everything that turns up, you're not living from creative intention. You're not making time for meditation, exercise or...
What’s Happening in Self-publishing This Week?

What’s Happening in Self-publishing This Week?

As we head into the busiest book-selling period of the year, there is Self-publishing News a-plenty from my ALLi partners and friends at the ALLi Author Advice Centre. Skip on over to this week's post to discover new data on how many indies are making a decent living...
What Happens After The Rising?

What Happens After The Rising?

The Irish Independent caught up with me while I was at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo to talk about the Easter Rising of 1916, what it meant to WB Yeats and what it meant to me, growing up in a small Irish village in the 1960s and 70s, in the shadow of the Irish...
In Sligo for the Yeats International Summer School

In Sligo for the Yeats International Summer School

I've gone back to school! I'm writing this from the back  of an unusual lecture hall — the Hawk's Well Theatre in Sligo, after a very fine lecture, “The Epiphanic Yeats” by Dr Matthew Campbell, Professor of English at the University of York....
Secret Rose Press Release

Secret Rose Press Release

 “WB Yeats Was An Indie Author” says Orna Ross, Irish Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, launching her new book which combines Yeats’ short story collection with her novel in a special tribute edition for #Yeats2015. 15.7.2015: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
Life Tells You How To Live It…

Life Tells You How To Live It…

I went to see Asif Kapadia's movie Amy on Saturday night, a documentary about the life and death of Amy Winehouse. The movie is well done, and tells a classic “destructive-creative” story, pretty much what you imagine Amy’s life to have been like, reading between the...