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  • Banville interview and other matters

    I was delighted to have the chance to interview John Banville for writing.ie on the release of his latest novel. In Ancient Light Alexander Cleave revisits both the memory of a teenage affair with a much older woman and looks further into the enigma of his daughter Cass’ fate previously touched on in Eclipse (2000)…

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    July 26, 2012
    Books and Authors, Writing Adventures, Writing Tips
    Anam Cara, Ancient Light, John Banville, Mary Vensel White
  • 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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    July 19, 2012
    Writing Adventures
    Cill Rialaig, writing retreat.
  • 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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    July 5, 2012
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    Housewife with a Half-Life, irish independent
  • Celebrating its announcement: a Higgs Boson short story

    I have leapt out of my retreat upon the news that scientists at CERN are announcing results consistent with the discovery of the Higgs Boson. My school level Physics means that I’ll have to leave it to others to explain but here is a story based around the concept of the Higgs Boson, the particle…

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    July 4, 2012
    short stories
    Higgs Boson, higgs boson discovery, Higgs Boson short story, what is the higgs boson
  • Self-published book in a bookshop

    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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    June 30, 2012
    Uncategorized
    bookshop, self published
  • 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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    June 30, 2012
    Writing Adventures
    Cill Rialaig, retreat
  • What a wonderful launch!

    What a fabulous evening we had yesterday (22nd June) at the book launch of Housewife with a Half-Life! With a warm welcome from Don and Chris at Hughes & Hughes, Dundrum, a wonderful turnout, a super speech and reading by lovely author Colette Caddle it was a wonderful occasion. General chit chat and refreshments followed…

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    June 23, 2012
    Books and Authors, Housewife with a Half-Life
    debut novel, Housewife with a Half-Life, hughes & hughes, launch
  • 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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    June 20, 2012
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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,…

    alisonwells

    June 17, 2012
    Housewife with a Half-Life
    chat, Housewife with a Half-Life, launch, reading, signing
  • 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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    June 13, 2012
    Housewife with a Half-Life
    housewife with a half-life blogtour, how to make time to write a novel, Paul Carroll
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