by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2019 | Fiction |
I get a lot of emails asking about In The Hour, the final book in my Irish Trilogy. I'm pleased to say that work has started. It's in the earliest stage and I haven't put down a delivery date yet. I've learned through painful experience not to do that while I'm still...
by Orna Ross | Nov 23, 2018 | Fiction |
Friday fiction: Just Do It is an extract from After The Rising, my first novel and the first book in the Irish trilogy. Jo has left Ireland for London and is drinking too much and achieving too little. Something has to give, and in this extract it does. I’m in...
by Orna Ross | Nov 16, 2018 | Fiction |
Friday fiction: Just Be Yourself is an extract from Below The Fall, the second book in the Irish trilogy. Jo has ended up in San Francisco, by way of London and hasn't been home in ten years. She has quite drinking and friends, job, lifestyle have all been...
by Orna Ross | Nov 9, 2018 | Fiction |
Excerpt from: Dancing In the Wind: Chapter 3 The story so far: Having rejected, and been rejected by, the poet WB Yeats, Maud Gonne has decided to marry another. In this extract, she breaks the news to her daughter Iseult, whom she has placed in a convent so she can...
by Orna Ross | Aug 25, 2018 | Fiction |
For the past year or so, I have been adapting a novel to script. Every Friday morning I meet my son who works in film and together we do some screenwriting and the usual sort of creative support stuff that creatives need. He's helped me to shape the second part of my...
by Orna Ross | Aug 4, 2018 | Fiction |
I always have different projects at different stages of development. I'm currently at the earliest possible stage of the final part of my Irish trilogy, In The Hour. Here's all I know so far and I'll keep you posted as more unfolds. SETTING: Like the first two books...