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  • Housewife with a Half-Life summer read giveaway

    Housewife with a Half-Life is a year old and I’m celebrating by giving away two signed paperback copies. Housewife is the lively adventure of mother of twins Susan Strong and travelling spaceman Fairly Dave through other dimensions to find Susan’s other lost selves and save the universe. With a light sprinkling of science, a lot…

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    July 6, 2013
    Books and Authors
    Housewife with a Half-Life, summer giveaway
  • Lost Property by flash fiction maestro Calum Kerr

    Calum Kerr is a writer, editor, lecturer and director of National Flash-Fiction Day in the UK. He lives in Southampton with his wife –  the writer, Kath Kerr –  their son and a menagerie of animals. His new collection of flash-fictions, Lost Property, is now available from Cinder House: http://cinderhouse.com/product/lost-property-by-calum-kerr/ I’ve known Calum (electronically!) for…

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    July 5, 2013
    Flash fiction
    Calum Kerr, flash fiction, Lost property
  • How to write when kids just fight and other stuff

    School’s out in this house and my eldest son whose twelve and a half has ‘graduated’ from Irish primary school so a nice sense of achievement and moving on.  In terms of keeping my ‘Head above Water’ writing wise I’m doing my best to get up in the early hours before the kids wake to…

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    July 4, 2013
    Creativity, Flash fiction
    Calum Kerr, life, Lost property, motherhood, Number Eleven, Random Acts of Optimism, school hols, Writing, writing with children, writing with kids
  • Great news from author Hazel Gaynor

    I am just thrilled to hear this wonderful news. Fellow Irish mother writer has just announced a two book deal, the first book to be released is the fantastic The Girl Who Came Home, a Titanic story that Hazel previously self-published. An excellent  writer and lovely person, Hazel Gaynor deserves this so much. I interviewed…

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    June 28, 2013
    Books and Authors
    Hazel Gaynor, the girl who came home
  • Flash Bulbs and Free Books for National Flash Fiction Day

    At Arthur’s Pub Thomas Street. Photo by Big Smoke Writing Flash Bulbs I had a wonderful time last evening listening to the readings at Flash Bulbs, Dublin’s flash fiction event, organised by purveyor of writing courses and drop in writing meets the fabulous Big Smoke Writing Factory. I also read my story Holographic Dog there…

    alisonwells

    June 23, 2013
    Flash fiction, Giveaways, short stories
    Big Smoke Writing Factory, Free Ebooks, national flash fiction day 2013, Stories to read on the train
  • All things Flash

    As you may know Saturday 22nd June is when this year’s Summer Solstice falls, thus making it the Longest Day and the shortest night of the year. Of course in Australia it’s the shortest day so in the spirit of all things International and short, fictionwise it will also be International Flash Fiction Day. There…

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    June 20, 2013
    Flash fiction
    flash ficiton, flash mob, international flash fiction day, National flash fiction day
  • National Flash Fiction Day Anthology: Scraps: Sparkling and Brilliant!

    Okay so I’m in it. Okay so I love flash fiction but this, this is just terrific. 65 authors of top quality calibre, fresh, exhilarating, sparkling, unique and marvelously entertaining tiny tales. It’s coming out in paperback in time for National Flash Fiction Day on the 22nd June but you don’t even want to wait…

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    June 14, 2013
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  • Niamh Boyce’s Debut Novel The Herbalist

    Niamh Boyce is from Athy, Co Kildare. She won Hennessy XO Writer of the Year 2012 for her poem Kitty. She’s currently editing her short story collection Wild Cat’s Buffet and writing her next novel. I met Niamh first at the Hennessy Awards 2009, where we were both finalists and again at a book launch…

    alisonwells

    June 13, 2013
    Book reviews, Books and Authors
    Niamh Boyce, The Herbalist
  • Flash Mob: Holographic Dog

    (Fiction) It’s far from holographic dogs I was reared. We had Shep, Fido and Bounder – good sheepdogs they were. We had a mongrel named Patch, apt that. He was gone in the head, didn’t know you he’d go right through you. Thing was, there was a ‘spate’ of burglaries round our way. More used…

    alisonwells

    June 10, 2013
    Flash fiction
    Fiction, flash fiction
  • Review of Bloodmining by Laura Wilkinson

    With the emotional resonance of a Maggie O’ Farrell and hints of Ishiguro’s Never let me go, Bloodmining is a vivid and believable rendering of a familiar but crucially altered near future.  A compelling debut novel from Laura Wilkinson that I read in one sitting, this is well worth the read. Over the course of…

    alisonwells

    June 3, 2013
    Book reviews, Books and Authors
    Bloodmining, Laura Wilkinson, review
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