Irish Novelist, Poet, and Creative Advocate

Stories and poems
direct from the writer.

I write historical fiction, inspirational poetry, and creative guides for authors and everyone. Choose what you fancy, skip lightly over the rest.

Every book has a free sample.

Twenty years an author-publisher

A shelf of her own making.

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Founded the Alliance of Independent Authors

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Genres: fiction · poetry · non-fiction

“A hauntingly captivating read” Sunday Independent “Technically brilliant, emotionally beguiling” The View From Here “A major poet” Robin Cutler, IngramSpark

Irish historical fiction

Enter the Ireland

that never made

the history books

Irish family dramas set in revolutionary periods — buried crimes, divided loyalties, and the women history tried to forget.

Inspirational poetry

Poems for life's turnings.

Illustrated gift books for the milestones we all live through— love, motherhood, grief, beginning again, and starting over.

New · The Yeats–Gonne story

A Life Before

Who was Maud Gonne before she became “the troubling” of W.B. Yeats’ life? Paris salons, London stages, and the charged streets of 1880s Dublin.

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