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Historical Fiction

Fiction Friday: Enter The History Quill’s Historical Fiction Giveaway

May 14, 2022May 13, 2022 by Orna Ross
historical fiction giveaway

Fancy taking part in this historical fiction giveaway from The History Quill? Five great historical fiction writers (and me). Six … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction

“Sparks of light.” Extract from the Novel: A Life Before This One

May 14, 2022May 6, 2022 by Orna Ross
Maud Gonne as Caitlín ní Houlihán 1902

This is an extract from the first book in my Yeats-Gonne series, A Life Before This One, a biographical fiction series about … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction

Friday Fiction: Extract from A Life Before This One-Introducing Rosy Cross

April 5, 2022April 1, 2022 by Orna Ross
A Life Before This One Extract

If you don’t already know, my Yeats-Gonne book Her Secret Rose (first published in 2015) has morphed into a Yeats-Gonne … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction Tags historical fiction, indie author, Irish fiction 1 Comment

Friday Fiction: Counting the Words To My Next Novel

April 5, 2022March 25, 2022 by Orna Ross

My novel in progress is A Life Before This One, the first book in what has become a series of … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction, Indie Author

Friday Fiction: A Traditional Irish Love Story

April 5, 2022March 18, 2022 by Orna Ross
a traditional Irish love story

Below is the beginning of a short story about a famous Irish love story, the story of Líadan and Cuirithir … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction

Friday Fiction: Using Haiku Poetry to Plan a Novel

April 5, 2022March 4, 2022 by Orna Ross
Haiku Fiction Planning for Authors

A while ago, I came across an idea that has made an enormous difference to how I plan my novels: … Read more

Categories Haiku, Historical Fiction Tags haiku, historical fiction, indie author, Orna Ross

Friday Fiction: Remembering the Irish Civil War 1922-23

February 15, 2022February 4, 2022 by Orna Ross

Ninety-nine years ago, my great-uncle Con (my father’s uncle, pictured left), was shot and killed in the Irish Civil War … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction

Feminal: A New Word for Women

February 15, 2022January 21, 2022 by Orna Ross
The Three Morrigans by Ion Ander Ramirez of IonAnder Art.

Over on my Facebook page, we’ve been discussing the word “feminal”. It means: “relating to a woman” and I came … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction

Isabella Pollexfen Varley: Artist and Aunt of WB Yeats

February 15, 2022January 7, 2022 by Orna Ross

One thing I love about writing historical fiction is doing the research. I often have to stop myself digging too … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction Tags dancing in the wind, Friday Fiction, indie author, irish author, Irish fiction, yeats

Illustration by JB Yeats “The Stolen Child”

February 15, 2022December 23, 2021 by Orna Ross
The Stolen Child Illustration by JB Yeats

In researching the prologue to my Yeats-Gonne series, which is told from the point of view of the fathers of … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction Tags irish author, Irish fiction, JB Yeats, Maud Gonne, Orna Ross, wb yeats, yeats
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Orna Ross is a bestselling and award-winning independent novelist and poet. She is also founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi).
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