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October 9, 2011
Octocon schedule
Yes, it's Octocon next week. Programming runs throughout the 15th & 16th October 2011 at the Camden Court Hotel, Dublin. That said, we usually meet up the evening of the 14th as well to catch up. The full schedule is available here. And Octocon is 21 this year, so I'm expecting a party. As for [...]
September 28, 2011
So, where am I? – a waffly post of waffle
Well, at home on the sofa to be honest. With the writing? Well, that's a different story. THE TREACHERY OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS is all finished. Another full manuscript is making its way out into the world shortly, plus a proposal. And my lovely agent has something else. So I am writing new things. Without totally [...]
September 12, 2011
Cover LOVE–first look
Just a quick but vital interruption in our scheduled blogging to reveal an almost exclusive thing of wonder. *dances around, throws confetti, dances some more* Why? Because I can at last share the beautiful cover for The Treachery of Beautiful Things.* And it's not just beautiful. It's SO EXCITING. *throws more confetti* It's so perfect [...]
September 6, 2011
How I spent my summer holidays part 2 – Megalithic
Ok, so I've delayed posting this evening as I should have but I completely blame the brand new shiny shiny phone that arrived today. Did I mention it's shiny??? Part 2 of the holiday theme was Megalithic. Brittany is of course awesome for all things megalithic. It has Carnac, to begin with. Actually Carnac pretty [...]
September 2, 2011
How I spent my summer holidays part 1
The reason for the parts? Ah yes, well, there are many photos. So many in fact they fall into different categories. As did our holiday, in a sense. Medieval, Megalithic, Geographic, Folklorish, with the overriding theme of research. Strangely enough I didn't get a lot of reading done. We did watch the series Pillars of [...]
August 10, 2011
Holiday reading
One of the most wonderful things about holidays is that I get time to work my way through my TBR pile. Some of these are books I've had for AGES, others are new (books tend to shuffle up and down the pile, in a bizare sort of queue jumping, elbowing others aside sort of way) [...]
August 3, 2011
Free Octocon Anthology
As part of the run up to Octocon, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention held (funnily enough) in October, my story CARRYING KEPTARA is currently available as part of their free showcase anthology, along with stories by Peadar Ó Guilín, Brian J. Showers and Derek Gunn. It's available in ePub, Kindle and PDF formats. Plus [...]
