Two Novembers ago, I got to go to the Irish Book Awards ceremony with Writing.ie. It was an amazing night: glitz, glam and a ballroom filled with people who love...

After thirteen years of hard work building up my writing CV, it seems that success comes in twos. Last year, I was absolutely thrilled when Alan Hayes, publisher at Arlen...

I hate the term ‘Reluctant Readers!’ But through my work as a teacher and later as a mother of eight  I’ve come across kids, including my own, who did not...

Red Dirt was submitted to publishers in 2014. I was just home from New Zealand, just turned 30, working part- time in Dublin. My weekly wage was barely covering the...

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” Sigmund Freud In this distraction-ridden age we live in, quality time spent with...

Breandan O’Broin won some writing time at the Anam Cara Writer’s and Artist’s Retreat on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork by penning a back-cover blurb-from-hell for his half-way-there novel...

For most of us, writing isn’t easy but in my experience some parts of the process are easier than others. For example it’s relatively easy to begin writing a book....

At one point in my life I was so overcome by life challenge that I was afraid to walk across the street on my own. Fast-forward to now and I...

Almost every writer I know dreams of having a perfect study at home, with a comfortable chair and books on all sides. Peace. Quiet. How the words will flow when...

As a fantasy author, the highlight of my calendar is Octocon. Ireland’s National Science Fiction Convention, Octocon has been running since 1990, only taking a break in 2014 to operate...