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Do writing retreats make a difference?
I’ve just come back from my writing retreat of 9 days in Ballinskelligs, at the side of a cliff in a remote part and beautiful part of Kerry. This was a place where you could choose complete isolation if you wanted. There was a meeting house but it was discretionary as to whether you and…
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Self-published book in the national paper
Yesterday the Higgs Boson & today Housewife with a Half-Life gets a mention as a beach read in the Irish Independent. Not bad for a self-published book eh? Is there no end to the excitement? And all while I’m off on a quiet retreat. Take heart self-publishers, all sorts of things are possible! Meanwhile back…
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Self-published book in a bookshop
Delighted with this photo! Also delighted that Housewife with a Half-life has recently received this lovely 4 star review on Goodreads: From: Nick Lowe Recommended for fans of Ben Elton,Douglas Adams, Robert Rankin and Terry Pratchett. The author combines humour and sci fi with the ordinary hum-drum of the life of a housewife. Highly enjoyable and original…
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Head above Water: A mother’s writing retreat
It’s been busy here lately hasn’t it? All Housewife with a Half-Life and liveliness but it will become a little quiet here for a while. I’ve been awarded a writing retreat in Cill Rialaig, a writer’s and artists retreat of six cottages at the edge of the world, overlooking the sea in one of the…
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Indie Author Giveaway Results
Here are the winners of the Indie Author Giveaway. The winner of the paperback is Darlene. The winners of the ebook are Sarah Elizabeth andChristine Hewell Jenson. I will be in touch with the winners shortly. Congratulations. I will add the results of the fun launch prize comp (very tardily ) tomorrow.
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Hughes & Hughes Launch of Housewife with a Half-Life Fri June 22nd: All welcome!
Bookshop launch of Housewife with a Half-Life and Mid-Summer Tweetup! I want to invite you all to the real life bookshop launch, signing & reading of Housewife with a Half-Life taking place in Hughes & Hughes Booksellers, Dundrum,…
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Housewife with a Half-Life Blog Tour
For the next week or so I’ll be travelling round various blogs talking about my self-publishing adventure, finding the time to write when raising a family of four young children, why I’m forging two separate identities as a writer as A.B. Wells for my sci-fi self and Alison Wells for my literary trad publishing side…
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