by Orna Ross | May 26, 2014 | GO CREATIVE! |
Creativism is: the conscious application of creative principles to everything in life A Creativist is: a person who applies creative principles to the art of living e.g. home, relationships, money, work. Creativists adopt conscious creation as a way of life. We...
by Orna Ross | May 20, 2014 | POETRY |
Come out into the garden, someone says. It’s almost seven and the table is laid. Yes come. Evening wind is cooling the trees, and we are here, whispering over the rim. See, your mother staring out through the eyes of your son. Your niece hands you a peach with her...
by Orna Ross | May 11, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Mrs Dalloway contemplates the dinner party she will throw later: “But to go deeper, beneath what people said (and these judgements, how superficial, how fragmentary they are!) in her own mind now, what did it mean to her, this thing she called life? “Oh,...
by Orna Ross | May 5, 2014 | POETRY |
Another video, this time reading two poems — “Halo” & “Long Light” — at The Alliance of Independent Authors's Indie Author Fringe Fest. See below for the text of the poems. HALO My brother, Conor, used them as they should be used,...
by Orna Ross | Apr 28, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“Everyone in Publishing Lives On Author Generated Income.” Here's a video of me, indie author Hugh Howey and Director of Author & Publisher relations at Amazon, Jon Fine talking publishing and self-publishing at The Digital Minds Conference at The London...
by Orna Ross | Apr 19, 2014 | FICTION |
Late in 1888, young Willie Yeats finished his first major book, The Wanderings of Oisin (a Gaelic name, pronounced “Usheen”), at the age of 22. The challenge then, as now, was to get it published and into the hands of readers. He had a publisher in mind...
by Orna Ross | Apr 11, 2014 | GO CREATIVE! |
What a week! The London Book Fair ended yesterday and it was, in the words of my old neighbour's daughter, whenever she's seeking her highest praise for an exciting experience, “off the wall mental”. During the fair, I found myself: * On Monday...
by Orna Ross | Apr 9, 2014 | GO CREATIVE! |
Copy of my speech at the Open Up To Indie Authors launch at The London Book Fair The guidebook we’ve gathered here today to launch is part of The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)’s Open Up To Indie Authors campaign (found on Twitter with the hashtag...