by Orna Ross | Jan 17, 2015 | The Rest |
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...
by Orna Ross | Jan 11, 2015 | Fiction |
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...
by Orna Ross | Dec 24, 2014 | The Rest |
“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.” Oscar Wilde. Receiving and giving are opposite directions of energy flow, inextricably linked together. Like breathing in and out, both are needed to keep flow freely moving . People think giving...
by Orna Ross | Dec 15, 2014 | The Rest |
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...
by Orna Ross | Dec 12, 2014 | The Rest |
The Bookseller 100 is a listing of the 100 most influential people in the UK book business and I'm honoured and thrilled to be included again this year. I believe this is a measure of self-publishing's increasing acceptance within publishing and the book trade...
by Orna Ross | Dec 8, 2014 | The Rest |
Graham Greene: “I was trying to write a book that simply would not come. I did my daily five hundred words, but the characters never began to live. So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income...
by Orna Ross | Dec 1, 2014 | The Rest |
Regular readers will know how influential the work of Vietnamese Buddhist monk, author, lecturer and peace advocate, Thich Nhat Hanh, has been on my own thinking, especially for the Go Creative! books. Now the 88-year-old “Thay” (as his followers call him,...
by Orna Ross | Nov 27, 2014 | The Rest |
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...
by Orna Ross | Nov 24, 2014 | Fiction |
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...
by Orna Ross | Nov 11, 2014 | Fiction |
The more I circle the life and work of WB Yeats, the more I'm drawn to wondering about his mother, Susan Yeats, nee Pollexfen. In trying to understand her influence, at first I felt hampered by how little we know about her. As I read through the letters and...