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The Key to Creativity

#GoCreative. I'm a bit sceptical about brain training and #creativity. Brain training works best in getting you used to jumping through particular mental hoops and improving your ability to do a specific brain task. But creative thinking is different. The brainwaves...

Final Launch Roundup

Closing a week of posts about the launch of the Alliance of Independent Authors at London Book Fair, this (long) post offers: A fascinating and lively podcast discussion I took part in on The Naked Book, about self-publishing's place in the industry. Some favourite...

Launching Free

[#ALLIA  #writing] Maybe it's because I'm Irish but every book I've ever written has had a lot to say about freedom — even my very first publication, a nonfiction book with a small feminist press in Dublin (Attic, now part of Cork University Press), called...

My Oxford All Nighter

#writerwednesday. I'm excited to be speaking about the Alliance next Friday at NOT The Oxford Literary Festival (NTOLF). This event was started two years ago by writer/performers who were frustrated by the high admission prices at the … yes…Oxford Literary...

Irish Fiction Online Launch

Happy St Patricks Day! Living abroad as I do, I love this day when the whole world goes a little bit Irish. So today's the day I've chosen for the Facebook launch of my twinned ebooks, After The Rising and Before the Fall that centre on a key moment in Irish history....