by Orna Ross | May 2, 2015 | Fiction |
Post by Yen Ooi The last day of the London Book Fair and IndieReCon saw the exciting Indie Author Fringe Festival that was held at Foyles, London on 17th April 2015. At the event, Ingram Spark interviewed Orna about her new project, a crowdfunder for Secret Rose, a...
by Orna Ross | Apr 27, 2015 | The Rest |
“Please… “… ask yourself whether these great sorrows have not, rather, gone right through the middle of you? If much within you has not changed, if you haven't somewhere, in some place, changed your being, while you were sorrowful?…...
by Orna Ross | Mar 18, 2015 | Fiction |
As regular readers know, Yeats has taken over this blog a bit this year (#Yeats2015), with my novel about his relationship with Maud Gonne launching in the summer and various fun and frolics happening here in London and in Ireland. I was thrilled to hear from Judith...
by Orna Ross | Mar 12, 2015 | Fiction |
We’ll begin with the day WB immortalized in his memoirs, when she came calling to his house with her complexion like the blossom of apples, and her lineaments of the highest beauty, and her stature so great that she seemed to him to be of divine race. Maud always...
by Orna Ross | Feb 23, 2015 | The Rest |
I feel grateful that I have been granted nine years of good health and productivity since my original diagnosis, but now I am face-to-face with dying. I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. Over the last few days (since my...
by Orna Ross | Feb 20, 2015 | The Rest |
Yes it's here! AVAILABLE AS A BOX SET FOR 12 WEEKS ONLY! 7 FULL-LENGTH, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED novels for only £7.99. Get yours now at the Women Writing Women Website “The Magnificent Seven… Beautiful, poetic, imaginative, passionate, thoughtful, witty,...
by Orna Ross | Feb 19, 2015 | The Rest |
We all have attitudes, beliefs, concepts, denials, expectations and fears about life – the Go Creative! series calls these our ABCDEFs. “The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice,” says the late, brilliant, creative, eccentric...
by Orna Ross | Feb 16, 2015 | The Rest |
“People working in the arts engage in street combat with The Fraud Police on a daily basis… “When you’re an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand....
by Orna Ross | Feb 14, 2015 | The Rest |
Great day today with The Boxers — as the seven of us who have got together on the Women Writing Women novel box-set have taken to calling ourselves. And with other friends from the Alliance of Independent Authors. Jessica Bell is in London for a few weeks...
by Orna Ross | Jan 28, 2015 | The Rest |
So… if you live in London, please mark your calendar. Our Yeats event (for #Yeats2015) is set for the 1st of April. ‘I Am Of Ireland', an evening of poetry and song, will explore what it is to be Irish, in these (we hope!) post-nationalist days. And...