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August 24, 2015
Creative August
It's been a rather wonderful August, a time for writing, photographing, reading, thinking and planning. Based on the relative simple premise that I am happiest when most productive, I set myself the challenge to do one creative thing (at least) every day. And lo! What came forth but a book chapter, five short stories, a Death Cafe, a series of photographic projects and much, much more. You can follow my August adventures here 
July 30, 2015
Scarecrows interrupt plotting...
Monumentally distracted from writing today by the extraordinary Durrow Scarecrow Festival. I'd meant to go for a few years now and never quite made it, so I was determined to do so this year. I also have a project (half-academic, half-creative) percolating in my brain to do with Irish Folk Gothic, and I rather thought the tip could be classified under - and therefore justified as - fieldwork. The festival is nothing short of amazing. There's an official 'contained' scarecrow village in the
July 29, 2015
Time for a resurrection...
Looking back, it strikes me as hilariously optimistic that my first ever voyage into writing was a novel, an unnamed opus I vaguely called The House Project. I crashed into it with great enthusiasm, came up with some genuinely creepy ideas, then got to a certain stage and it all…just fizzled out. Too much had happened too soon; I had the uneasy feeling that it was becoming repetitive; I couldn’t figure out where it was going to go. In writing, hesitation can be as fatal as on a high-wire. My
July 23, 2015
More story acceptances...
Story #12 accepted by Hydra Publications for a dystopian anthology and Story #13 taken by the lovely A Murder of Storytellers for a new anthology in October 2015. Exciting times! 
July 13, 2015
PTSD! It's here!
Oh man! It's finally arrived; that time period that seemed the stuff of dreams a mere few weeks ago. Post Thesis Submission Time. And not only that, it's also Post Viva Time! Yes, I'm now a doctor, licensed to write at will and prescribe books for everyone! This PhD has been an amazing ride. It's buoyed up my confidence in myself and my writing. For the first time in a long time, I don't feel like a fraud when around other academics, now I'm a 'proper' member of the tribe. Of course now that
PTSD! It's here!
Oh man! It's finally arrived; that time period that seemed the stuff of dreams a mere few weeks ago. Post Thesis Submission Time. And not only that, it's also Post Viva Time! Yes, I'm now a doctor, licensed to write at will and prescribe books for everyone! This PhD has been an amazing ride. It's buoyed up my confidence in myself and my writing. For the first time in a long time, I don't feel like a fraud when around other academics, now I'm a 'proper' member of the tribe. Of course now that
June 6, 2015
Review of Darkest Minds from the dark mind of James Everington
Get it while it's hot! Generous and kind review of Darkest Minds by the redoubtable James Everington. Read it here His own excellent serial, The Quarantined City is available from Amazon - try the first episode for an unbeatable 0.99p!
May 23, 2015
A Lovely Blog Hop... Lovely? Really?
James Everington, I'm finally responding to your kind invitation to become part of a A Lovely Blog Hop started by Sue Moorcraft, and which James and other writers have dragged from the starry heights of romance writing to the slithery pits of horror. James, completist writer that he is, went above and beyond the call of duty and dotted his own blog entry with complimentary, additional dinosaurs. You can read and enjoy it here. I'm also tagging some fellow female writers of hororr and
May 18, 2015
Darkest Minds released
Darkest Minds is out! Featuring my story, 'Walking the Borderlines' and many other good 'uns. Read the TOC here 
April 12, 2015
Researching the stories
I'm currently working on ideas for three short story collections (PTSD, obviously - Post Thesis Submission Date). The reason for this sudden surge of activity is odd; writing my dissertation. In many ways the PhD has proved to be a creative release that has inspired a lot of my fiction - it doesn't hurt that the thesis centred around the recurrence of the Gothic home in contemporary Ireland. As I've been working on it, I've found that conducting resarch for different chapters has inspired
