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In Need of Creative Mentoring?
Stuck in a creative rut? Confused about where to start? Spinning that hamster wheel and not going anywhere? Or caught in resistance (or even self-sabotage) mode? Those who know me for my creative...
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Thank You Thank You! PLUS A Little Raffle for Hardcore WB Yeats Fans
Thank you to all who supported my Crowdfunder. With your help, I made it! 103% funded as I write, on the last day, with funds still coming in. I’m overwhelmed and so very grateful for your support —...
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Shhh! Author Under Edit Siege
Apologies for radio silence around here. I’m deep in the edits and proofreading of Secret Rose, with the fabulous Rodgers and Rodgers, mother and daughter, Joni and Jerusha. It’s my first time to work...
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My Yeats Day 2015
Tanya from Broadford Books with the first edition of The Secret Rose (1897) On Yeats day 2015, I travelled to Dublin to collect a first edition copy of WB Yeat’s short story collection, The Secret...
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WB Yeats Was An Indie Author
“I am what is called on the Internet a “superfan,” of WB Yeats and one of the things I most love and admire about this poet and teller of tales is the care he took with his books, not just in their...
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“WB Yeats Was An Indie Author” says Orna Ross, Irish Director of the Alliance of Independent Authors, launching her new book which combines Yeats’ short story collection with her novel in a special...
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In Sligo for the Yeats International Summer School
Looking forward to working with Eavan Boland, my favourite living poet I’ve gone back to school! I’m writing this from the back of an unusual lecture hall — the Hawk’s Well Theatre in Sligo, after a...
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Althea Gyles: Designer of The Secret Rose
Althea Gyles, the artist and writer who designed the cover of WB Yeats’s The Secret Rose (which I have reproduced on my special edition book), and many other masterpieces of the 1890s, has been...
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WB Yeats & Maud Gonne: The Greatest Love Story That Never Was?
Out today, in ebook: the first book of my WB Yeats – Maud Gonne trilogy in standalone edition. [The special edition edition is now withdrawn in ebook format but I do still have a few hardbacks editions...
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WB Yeats’s Fanatic Heart Was Not For Ireland But For Love Itself
“It was all ‘father, oh father’,” Bob Geldof says, mimicking a pious voice addressing a priest. Then in his own voice: “F**k off, you’re not my father.” Geldof is railing against the the Irish State...
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