by Orna Ross | Oct 28, 2011 | Fiction |
The story so far: Jo Devereux is back in Mucknamore, the Irish seaside village where she grew up. Her mother's dying request is that she will stay on and write a family history, from the pile of family papers she's bequeathed her about the Irish liberation struggle in...
by Orna Ross | Oct 14, 2011 | Fiction |
The story so far: Jo Devereux has returned to Mucknamore, the Irish seaside village where she grew up, for her mother's funeral after an absence of 20 years. There she reconnects with her sister Maeve and her ex-boyfriend, Rory O'Donovan, the only man she has ever...
by Orna Ross | Oct 7, 2011 | Fiction |
The story so far: Jo Devereux has returned to Mucknamore, the Irish seaside village where she grew up, for her mother's funeral after an absence of 20 years. There she reconnects with her sister Maeve, brother-in-law Donal, niece Ria and – to her great surprise...
by Orna Ross | Oct 3, 2011 | Fiction |
Because I've just been given an exciting new screenwriting opportunity (of which more anon)… and because, as advised by Joanna last week, I need to have my published novels e-reader-ready for Christmas… and because I'm also publishing a poetry book this...
by Orna Ross | Sep 20, 2011 | Fiction |
IN AUTUMN OF 1916, Iseult Gonne sent a long letter to her friend and mentor, WB Yeats, in which she referred to his recent critique of her writing: “I am most thankful to you for those criticisms you have made on my scribblings,” she wrote. “Yes, they are bad. I...
by Orna Ross | Sep 17, 2011 | Fiction |
The Story So Far: From the ‘Advanced Psychotherapeutic Facility’ in upstate New York to which her father, Mack, has admitted her, Mel McIntyre mines family history and her own memory for details of a 20-year-old tragedy: the death of baby sister, Tara. Mel has...
by Orna Ross | Sep 5, 2011 | The Rest |
Like many a refugee from conventional fiction publishing, one of the things I fled was being crammed into what felt like the wrong genre. In my case, what the publisher liked to call ‘chick-lit'. Pursuing the huge audience for such books, they changed my title...
by Orna Ross | Jul 8, 2011 | Fiction |
My New Novel (Serialised fortnightly on Fridays). Chapter 3. Send Me A Girl. The Story So Far: From the ‘Advanced Psychotherapeutic Facility' in upstate New York to which her father, Mack, has admitted her, Mel McIntyre mines family history and her own memory...
by Orna Ross | Jun 24, 2011 | Go Creative! |
My New Novel (Serialised fortnightly on Fridays). Chapter 2. Gaining Entry. Previous Chapters Can be Read Here. The Story So Far: Mel McIntyre has been delivered to an ‘Advanced Psychotherapeutic Facility' in upstate New York by her father, Mack. The mystery of...