by Orna Ross | Apr 4, 2014 | GO CREATIVE! |
Join me and Director of Self-Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo Writing Life, Mark Lefebvre, as we discuss plans to launch The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)'s “Open Up To Indie Authors” campaign at The London Book Fair & beyond. This global...
by Orna Ross | Apr 2, 2014 | Uncategorized |
We all have a con-mind (conventional, conceptual, conservative) and we all have a creative mind and, once we have learned how, we can switch from one to the other by choice. Becoming more creative is about choosing to take our attention away from con-mind’s goings and...
by Orna Ross | Mar 6, 2014 | Uncategorized |
He just woke himself calling her name, all his life looking for what never came. Passing right past her, then, and again. And now it's all over. And now still the same. ~~~~
by Orna Ross | Feb 13, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Please join me in mourning the death by execution of Hashem Shabaani in Iran. A high-school teacher of Arabic language and literature, a poet in Arabic and Persian, a pacifist-activist who promoted Arabic culture and literature in Iran, a carer to his ill father, and...
by Orna Ross | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized |
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and...
by Orna Ross | Feb 3, 2014 | FICTION |
The wonderful Jane Dixon-Smith has just delivered the covers for the Yeats-Gonne trilogy, Between The Words, and yes, I'm a tad excited! Jane's done a wonderful job as always. These novels have been a long time in the writing. WB Yeats was 23-years-old when Maud...
by Orna Ross | Feb 1, 2014 | POETRY |
My mother's name is Brigid, though everyone knows her as Ida, named as almost every Irish person used to be, after a saint. St Brigid, one of the patron saints of Ireland, whose feast day is today, the old Irish imbolc, the first day of spring. Much to my own surprise...
by Orna Ross | Jan 27, 2014 | Uncategorized |
Knowing that the same elemental, dangerous energy that moves the wind also moves me, the only approach to life that makes sense to me is the creative way. And knowing that I am an advocate for this way, people often ask me: if I did ‘go creative', what would...