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Two Creativists Talk About A New AdVenture

Yen: Early in December 2014, I told Orna about my decision to go freelance, and she responded by asking me if I cared to join her on an adventure. I was scared, feeling slightly unsure, but deep down, my gut said yes. So I said yes. Since then, I’ve been getting to...

Yeats 2015 Celebrations

I promised details last time of the projects I'm going to run this year to celebrate #Yeats2015. 1. First up: I am gathering five people who are interested in attending the Yeats Summer School in Sligo in July/August; we'll have a private dinner there and talk Yeats...

ALLi Teams Up With Toby Mundy Associates

I'm very pleased to have organised foreign right representation for ALLi members again. From January 2015, ALLi will be teaming up with Toby Mundy Associates (TMA) to provide a unique subsidiary rights service for author-publishers, through The Alliance of Independent...

Are Sleepless Nights More Creative?

Has it happened to you: a restless night, spent tossing and turning, yielding good creative ideas? In a recent podcast, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels admitted that while under the stress of having to produce a topical weekly show he found that a lack of...

Her Secret Rose: My next novel

The Irish Nobel-Laureate poet Willie Yeats was 23 years old in 1889, when Maud Gonne came calling to his house and, as he later put it, “the troubling of his life” began. Six feet tall, elegantly beautiful and passionately political, this British heiress turned...