by Orna Ross | Aug 18, 2015 | The Rest
SECRET ROSE is an unusual publication, bringing together two books that were published more than a century apart and by two very different writers: WB Yeats’s book of talismanic short stories, The Secret Rose (1897) and my novel, Her Secret Rose (2015), based on the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 13, 2015 | The Rest |
I went to see Asif Kapadia's movie Amy on Saturday night, a documentary about the life and death of Amy Winehouse. The movie is well done, and tells a classic “destructive-creative” story, pretty much what you imagine Amy’s life to have been like, reading between the...
by Orna Ross | Jul 6, 2015 | The Rest |
On Yeats day 2015, I travelled to Dublin to collect a first edition copy of WB Yeat's short story collection, The Secret Rose, from the lovely Tanya Collie of Broadford books. This first edition was purchased by a Mr Danny O'Sullivan as part of my crowdfunder...
by Orna Ross | Jun 5, 2015 | The Rest |
There's a ripe crop of news from the Alliance of Independent Authors over at the ALLi self-publishing blog- take your pick from what's happening in indie world.
by Orna Ross | May 22, 2015 | The Rest |
Read up on all of the news this week for self-publishing authors over at the Alliance of Independent Authors.
by Orna Ross | May 18, 2015 | The Rest |
Ours is the creative age. A recent study by IBM shows the number one characteristic employers now look for in future employees is creativity. But its application is much wider than work. Learning how to recognise, understand and harness our creative capacities is...