While this, my first book, has not been my life’s work so to speak, the whole project has spanned about four years from the germ of an idea, to publication....

We all have dreams, and sometimes these dreams – or ambitions – are the driving force to success.    We’ve all heard the inspirational quotes – “Don’t give up on your...

I was born in Portadown in the County of Armagh in August 1945 not long after the war had ended both in Europe and Japan. From the age of five...

I remember going to a talk one time by a successful published author, the title was “How to get Published”. You can imagine the event was well subscribed, we all...

If Women Rose Rooted wasn’t the book I intended to write. In fact, I never intended to write another book at all. My first novel, The Long Delirious Burning Blue,...

David Lean has a lot to answer for. I went to see his Oscar-laden film, Lawrence of Arabia, when I was in my twenties, and nothing was ever the same...

From email to bookshelf, my first book has taken 10 months. The email was from Hachette Books Ireland asking if I was interested in meeting. So I met them, and...

The tradition of setting new goals and resolutions is a ritual and a challenge I look forward to every year. At the beginning of 2013 as I reflected on the...

2016 opens with some exciting debut novels getting set for launch – we’ll be keeping up with these guys and many more as the year progresses, but we thought we’d...

Just when you think you have something figured out, life comes up and bites you on the ass. It’s very humbling. Or should that be “crushing”? This year, I was...