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Historical Fiction

I’m Back and Things Are Changing Around here

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 by Orna Ross
Life Lessons From Fiction A Creativist Podcast Episode One

Thank you for your patience with me while I revamped my reader patronage to bring it over onto my website, … Read more

Categories Creativist, Historical Fiction

Friday Fiction: Announcing My First Three Gonne-Yeats Novels

August 25, 2022July 22, 2022 by Orna Ross

I’m getting close to publishing the first three books in my Gonne-Yeats series and have been working on the covers … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction

Friday Fiction: Gonne-Yeats Novel Series Running Order

July 23, 2022July 15, 2022 by Orna Ross

I’ve mapped out and finalized the Gonne-Yeats series running order. This involved a lot more plotting than I usually do, … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction, WB Yeats & Maud Gonne

Friday Fiction: Supporting the WB Yeats Bedford Park Project

August 25, 2022July 8, 2022 by Orna Ross
Fiction News: Yeats Sculpture

I’m happy to see that the WB Yeats Bedford Park Project is back in post-pandemic action! I was a proud … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction

Friday Fiction: Remembering the Irish Civil War 1922-23

July 4, 2022July 1, 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

Friday Fiction: The Life of Althea Gyles: Designer of The Secret Rose

July 24, 2022June 24, 2022 by Orna Ross
Althea Gyles designed Yeats book & portrait

Althea Gyles, the artist and writer who designed the cover of WB Yeats’s The Secret Rose (which I reproduced on my … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction Tags Fortune magazine

Friday Fiction: “Sparks of light.” Novel Extract from A Life Before

July 24, 2022June 17, 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: All things hurt, all things heal

August 25, 2022June 10, 2022 by Orna Ross
suffering and healing abstract art

I’ve been thinking a lot about hurting and healing lately — as I approach the end of the first draft … Read more

Categories Historical Fiction

Isabella Pollexfen Varley: Artist and Aunt of WB Yeats

June 29, 2022June 3, 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

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

July 24, 2022May 30, 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
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