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Can you tell I’m liking the video reviews? You guys are awesome! Thanks you so much and I’m so glad you both enjoyed, and “got” the story I wanted to tell. In other news Epic Con 5, which I attended this weekend as a guest was wonderful fun. Myself, Celine Kiernan, Peadar Ó Guilín and [...]

Shhh, I am not really here. I am working very hard. I promise. But I had to post about this super review for The Treachery of Beautiful Things which I came across this morning from Beauty, Books & Ramblings. It comes in both Spoiler free and Spoiler-ific varieties so you can take you pick, but [...]

So… on Sunday, the last day of our Christmas Holidays, which was also Nollaig na mBan, as a treat primarily for me I think, we went to Collin’s Barracks, part of the National Museum of Ireland to see The Armagh Rhymers perform a Mummer’s Play. Mumming is a traditional part of the winter holidays which, [...]

Happy new year everyone. Thanks for all your support, help & messages in 2012. Here’s hoping 2013 is even better for us all!

In the midst of all the Christmas chaos, we went for a walk in a local park and came across the fairy tree. And what a fairy tree…     Any wonder there’s inspiration everywhere when you can find things like this, in the middle of a forest. Just because… Hope everyone had a great [...]

I’ve been very quiet of late which is usually ominous. But in this case it’s been a mixture of being not terribly well, and having some edits on the Space Opera.* Which might not actually be a Space Opera anymore (Planetary romance? Science Fantasy? Scientific Romance?). So here is the podcast of an interview I [...]

One of the niggly things about being in Ireland is that I can’t magically sign books far away. But now I have some lovely little bookplate stickers for The Treachery of Beautiful Things, so I sort of can. There are three designs. Aren’t they pretty? (They are bigger than this. I’m just having problems making [...]

Check out the super Glitterature review from Elle Fowler “If you are a fan of magical books; of Narnia, or Alice in Wonderland, then you will love this book! I finished this book in one sitting, and was so entranced by it that I didn’t want it to end – ever. I highly recommend this [...]

Halloween, All Hallow’s Eve, or Samhain marks the end of harvest and the beginning of winter. Traditionally its the time when the veil between worlds weakens, allowing spirits and creatures of the otherworld to creep through into our own. It is a time when demons, imps and faeries prowl the earth, when the dead whisper [...]

Once upon a time a twitter friend asked me to blog  about my process. And I went… err… okay… Because, seriously, I don’t really think much about process. I have these crazy ideas and I write them down. Sometimes they aren’t ready to be turned into full stories, sometimes they are part of other stories [...]