A Novel Idea- How to Plan your Story
It can be totally cathartic to set pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) and let your mind wander to find your story. But sometimes [...]
Print Irish
In this difficult economy, governments are putting ever more emphasis on supporting local business as a means to overall recovery. But that is not the [...]
Young At Heart
Young at Heart – a Celebration of Ten Years is a compilation by Phil Goodman which chronicles the activities of a group of volunteers in [...]
Radio Blaa Blaa by Brian Kennedy
Brian Kennedy’s first book, Confessions of an Exeter City Nut, was self-published before being taken up by a small publisher in England. His 2011 book, [...]
A Certain Time, A Certain Place
Selfpublishbooks.ie are reprinting Katherine O’Riordan’s memoir, A Certain Time, A Certain Place and luckily I got to catch up with the author herself. Katherine O’Riordan [...]
‘Valentia’ by Catherine Conlon — Christmas Bestseller!
Set in contemporary Ireland, this novel follows the lives of the various members of the O’Sullivan family during a pivotal five-month period which marks a [...]
Maureen Fox: Memories & Articles
Maureen Fox was a journalist with the – then - Cork Examiner, now the Irish Examiner. At 15 she was expelled from school, her headmistress [...]
The Emancipist, Veronica Sweeney
(This article is also featured on Writing.ie) Veronica Sweeney has been a published novelist for twenty-eight years. She wrote her trilogy, The Emancipist, after nine [...]
Abandoned Darlings
Ruth Quinlan, one of the members of NUIG’s Masters in Writing group which produced the collection Abandoned Darlings, caught up with Selfpublishbooks.ie this week and [...]
