Code Read

The title sums up my absence from the blogosphere in the past four months. I’m changing career and have enrolled in a course which will lead to (hopefully) opportunities to become a full stack web developer, something which I’ve been really enjoying in recent months. My spare time outside of creating buggy websites and novelty […]

Like New

I’VE BEEN BACK in Ireland for just over two months now. Weather hasn’t been very agreeable. Aside from that, it’s been good to have some downtime following the completion of my last freelance gig. I’ve had time to consider the next steps in my career and how much weight to give other interests in my […]

There’s a (writing) storm comin’

A CERTAIN PRIEST has been bugging me again. Fr. Tom Regan to be precise. Fresh off the back of his travails in the jungles of Peru, he wants to be let off the leash again. I’ve been relatively quiet on the writing front so I was as surprised as anyone to hear him chirp up […]

How To Get Amazon Reviews For Your First Book

I REALIZE IT’S BEEN A WHILE since I wrote anything remotely related to authoring. Yeah. It’s a word. So, I wanted to take a moment to explain what I do to get reviews for my books. What triggered this particular post was reading the RTE best reads of the year by Sinead Crowley. Some of […]

Heaven's Lottery (Part 2 of 2)

We didn’t leave the house that night though we could hear others gathered outside talking away. A lot of them were still out when we got up next morning. The street was littered with cans. The Whelan’s were sayin’ it was the end of days, preachin’ about the final Judgement. That didn’t go down well […]