If At First You Don't Succeed…(Shhh!!!)
IF THERE’S ONE thing I’ve learnt from a decade of working in Sales, it’s this: Rejection is inevitable. What you do with that rejection, is another thing altogether. Like most aspiring authors I’ve got my fair share of rejection letters from publishers and agents. Nothing new there, but without any valuable, critical feedback it is […]
The Voices Inside My-, Who Said That?
THE PAST THREE months have been the most productive and creative of my life. That might not be reflected on this little blog, but behind the scenes, and under the cover of the Colombian Sun, I’ve cranked up my writing. Three books are in the pipeline for 2016. A lifelong goal of having something tangible […]
Inverting Winter and Future Projects
I HAD NO intention of spending Winter back in cold, wet and dreary Ireland so have moved back to Colombia this week. Medellin again for at least another three months. I only came back from the city to Ireland last month for Godfather duties and the small matter of the Rugby World Cup but was […]
The Perfect Storm – Finding Novel Ideas
I’m reluctant to call myself a writer. To be considered a writer in my opinion, you need to have published something therefore I’ll settle for the moniker of blogger for now. I’m halfway through writing my third novel. I have done very little thus far to promote my own work at least in its current […]
What Dolly Parton Taught Me About Traditional Publishing
Thanks to J.A Konrath and Ireland’s very own trailblazer Catherine Ryan Howard, I’ve spent many hours in the last weeks devouring everything I could find about the art and craft of self-publishing. As mentioned in my original blog post, I wanted to use this medium to ultimately find my own voice, practice the discipline of […]