by Orna Ross | Jan 21, 2022 | FICTION |
Over on my Facebook page, we've been discussing the word “feminal”. It means: “relating to a woman” and I came across it while researching my Yeats-Gonne book… I really think we should revive it. It fills the great wide gap between...
by Orna Ross | Dec 23, 2021 | FICTION |
In researching the prologue to my Yeats-Gonne series, which is told from the point of view of the fathers of WB Yeats and Maud Gonne, I came across the above black-and white-print by JB Yeats, sold at Whytes Gallery auction recently. It fetched €6,400, which is rather...
by Orna Ross | Sep 21, 2021 | FICTION |
By request, our next Go Creative! workshop, on the 8th of October, will be about Finding Your Flow: Overcoming Resistance and Block. If one part of you is giving another part of you a hard time (beating yourself up for being lazy, procrastinating, or ineffective, for...
by Orna Ross | Sep 11, 2021 | FICTION |
The After the Rising & Before the Fall blog tour is almost over Since the start of September, bloggers have been reviewing and commenting on the centenary edition of this two-books-in-one set. Such lovely reviews. You can buy the book directly from me here. Here's the...
by Orna Ross | Sep 10, 2021 | FICTION |
Each Friday, I publish an extract from my work in progress, currently Dancing in the Wind, based on a true story about the controversial love triangle between WB Yeats, his longtime muse Maud Gonne, and her daughter Iseult. In this extract, letters exchanged by Maud...
by Orna Ross | Sep 4, 2021 | FICTION |
I’m delighted that After the Rising & Before the Fall (Centenary Edition) was honoured as an award-winning finalist, in the family saga category of the 2021 American Fiction Awards. The American Fiction Awards program is a speciality book award focused on honouring...