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Mousetrapped by Catherine Ryan Howard
Review of Mousetrapped (beware, spoiler alert!) I’ve just finished reading ‘Mousetrapped’ by Catherine Ryan Howard. It’s a captivating account of a year and a half spent working in a hotel at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, from the stark reality of settling in, to the magic and the mayhem of a girl from Cork,…
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Words are always there
Words are always there bubbling up from all the years, all the thinking, all the hearing, all the seeing, all the memories, layer on layer. Words are in the night and early morning between waking and sleeping, wisp cloud phrases evaporating Words are on the underside of dreams, in the dragged behind blanket of the…
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Talli Roland’s The Hating Game
Today I’m helping with Talli Roland’s blog splash for her debut novel The Hating Game. Check out her book, all the details below. Help Talli Roland’s debut novel THE HATING GAME hit the Kindle bestseller list at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk by spreading the word today. Even a few sales in a short period of time on Amazon helps push…
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NaNoWriMo – Now it’s all over, would I do it again?
Funny one this year, NaNoWriMo, the 50000 word marathon for the month of November. I did it firstly last year and in the intervening time got myself a complete novel, Housewife with a Half-life an escapist comic novel with a sci-fi slant and a very endearing main character. It was a difficult process and churning…
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NaNoWriMo: Feel the fear and do it anyway
By now some of you may have gathered that the advice I dish out and some of you have very kindly said is helpful, is often written for myself. I’m afraid. Of NaNoWriMo. Of wanting to be a writer and not properly getting round to do it. Of striving and never getting a novel published. Of having…
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I’m not dying!
The power of fiction. I just (because of a kind message) realised that I had posted a fictional piece about someone with a short time to live without the #fridayflash hashtag. It was late and obvious to me that it was fiction. But for those of you signed up to emailed posts, please be assured…
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#Fridayflash A life in books
Books I always thought I would read before I died: War and Peace, Rembrance of things Past, Ulysses. Then they told me I was going to die. How long does it take to read a book? I wondered. I tried to read Ulysses once but I found I couldn’t. There had been too much hype…
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All the options: One Stop Self-Publishing Conference
I attended the One Stop Self Publishing Conference on Sat Oct 17th at the Fitzpatrick Killiney hotel Dublin. It was organised and facilitated by Vanessa O’ Loughlin of Inkwell and Eoin Purcell of Green Lamp Media. As a fiction writer I was interested in interested in exploring the self-publishing option as one of the many possible…
Alison Wells Author 