Fiction Friday: Enter The History Quill’s 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
Historical Fiction
“Sparks of light.” Extract from the Novel: A Life Before This One
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
Friday Fiction: Extract from A Life Before This One-Introducing Rosy Cross
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
Friday Fiction: Counting the Words To My Next Novel
My novel in progress is A Life Before This One, the first book in what has become a series of … Read more
Friday Fiction: 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
Friday Fiction: Using Haiku Poetry to Plan a Novel
A while ago, I came across an idea that has made an enormous difference to how I plan my novels: … Read more
Friday Fiction: Remembering the Irish Civil War 1922-23
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
Feminal: A New Word for Women
Over on my Facebook page, we’ve been discussing the word “feminal”. It means: “relating to a woman” and I came … Read more
Isabella Pollexfen Varley: Artist and Aunt of WB Yeats
One thing I love about writing historical fiction is doing the research. I often have to stop myself digging too … Read more
Illustration by JB Yeats “The Stolen Child”
In researching the prologue to my Yeats-Gonne series, which is told from the point of view of the fathers of … Read more