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Writing about the grief of loss.

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Writing about the pain of loss.

People often maintain that it is therapeutic to write or speak about the devastation felt upon the death of someone very close to you. Just as they say better not to suppress your grief, rather you should let it all out, allow yourself to cry, rant and rave, whatever gives you relief; bottling it up only delays the healing process. But the truth of it is the healing process is slow whatever you do and, where you truly love, can never be wholly complete; years may soften the loss but never ent...

Nesta's website just updated. See Ebooks!

Pleased to report my website www. nestatuomey.com has just been updated. Now with the addition of the EBook version of my second novel 'Like One Of The Family' on the EBook page all four titles can be seen with instant linkup to Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble (the Nook) and other suppliers. Other titles are 'Up Up and Away' my first airline novel. 'The Straw Hat and Other Stories' tales of life, love and conflict  in Provincial Irish towns and 'The Mask and Other Stories'  about...

Back to work!

Taking another day before getting down to the business of writing. Need more time to think of my characters, put more flesh on them and discover the small things about them only a friend would know. Important to record their ages so I don't get bogged down later when in full flow. Maeve Binchy used always drew up charts listing names, ages and relationships of her characters. Good advice. But I'll probably just plunge in. Ah well, we all have our own method. Some people end up not using their...

Like One of the Family by Nesta Tuomey

Delighted my EBook version of 'Like One of the Family' is now available on Kindle, Barnes and Noble (the Nook) Amazon.com, Kobo. This is the story of an Irish family, of love, passion and tragedy when Claire Shannon is drawn into the warmth of the McArdle's family circle, shares their hopes and dreams, their holidays and outings, and suffers abuse that remains hidden for years. She thinks her secret is safe until she falls in love with the son of the abuser. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Like-One-Of-T...

'Like One of the Family' now on Kindle!

Delighted when I checked my author page on Amazon to find that my EBook version of 'Like One of the Family' is now available on Kindle with two good reviews already?  All  thanks due to that brilliant team headed by Matt and Diana Horner  ebookpartnership.com  This is a book about an Irish family, a memorable tale of love, passion and tragedy. A book that you can tuck up by the fire with and once you get stuck into it - so I'm told by friends and others! - you won't be abl...

All about EBooks!

A few months ago, learning of the great advantages of going global with my published novels and short stories, I decided to get help having them converted to Ebooks. A writer friend gave me the name of EBookPartnership  and when I emailed them they promptly replied, giving me all the information needed to get me going. This brilliant team, headed by Matt and Diana Horner,offered me a good package - it consisted of formatting my books, designing the covers, providing ISBNs and taking care...

Nesta Tuomey author

A few months ago, learning of the great advantages of going global with my published novels and short stories, I decided to get help having them converted to Ebooks. A writer friend gave me the name of EBookPartnership.com and when I emailed them they promptly replied, giving me all the information needed to get me going. This brilliant team, headed by Matt and Diana Horner,offered me a good package - it consisted of formatting my books, designing the covers, providing ISBNs and taking care of general distribution. They also gave me a discount for multiple titles. So within a couple of months I had three titles - my first novel and two collections of short stories- available on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble (the Nook)and several other popular outlets. When I decided to go ahead with my second novel and submitted it to Matt for formatting, along with the completed forms listing my ideas for the book cover and other relevant publicity information, he sent me the new book cover three days later! Wow! And this cover, like the other three book covers, is really lovely. I'm so pleased with it and will be showing it in my blog very soon. Hopefully, 'Like One Of The Family' will be online, if not before Christmas, very soon afterwards. In the meantime I'm getting used to using Facebook, twitter, Goodreads and Linkedin to make my books known. It's all a bit of a learning curve but thanks to eBookPartnership.com all of the angst was taken out of the conversion process and I haven't had so much fun in years. It has been an enjoyable and satisfying experience. While I am so pleased with Ebook publication I am still very much in favour of traditional publishing and my new airline novel 'Holding Pattern' (sequel to Up Up and Away) is going through the usual channels at present, hopefully will be in print very soon. I have to say though, there is something irresistible about being able to read your work on screen and to have the facility to make it available to readers world-wide. To change is to grow and to change often is to become perfect!

The Straw Hat and Other Stories

Here is the link to these 21  short stories 'The Straw Hat and Other Stories' on Amazon.co.uk  Available on Kindle, Kobo and Barnes and Noble (The Nook)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Straw-Hat-Other-Stories-ebook/dp/B00EVXL3ZI/ref=la_B001K7S24S_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385950958&sr=1-4

The Sraw Hat and Other Stories.

These are 21 short stories about life, love and relationships in provincial Irish towns.The first story 'Never Too Late' is about a Kerry girl and her father whose relationship suffers when he marries again soon after the death of her mother. But all is not lost when Mary's Italian landlady decides to take a hand to try and reunite the pair of them. 'The theme of the 'The Straw Hat' is jealousy.  The women of the village envy Mammy Donovan her position as dresser of the itinerant brides...