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Welcome to GI, Ruby.
I live in Dublin, and if I get some free time I might venture in for tomorrow's talk. It sounds really interesting.
I live in Dublin, and if I get some free time I might venture in for tomorrow's talk. It sounds really interesting.
Ruby's being featured as my first Irish Indie Author today on the Webbiegrrl Freebie Friday blog. Since PERIL is free, why not get a copy and try it out?I've already downloaded mine to my iPad's Kindle app, Ruby. Thanks!
-Webbiegrrl
Hi Ruby , are you a cat or just living in Kilkenny?
>4 Hi Pauline. I'm just a blow-in but there's no avoiding the jersey. So I've taken to it!
well Turnip.........love the email address, as long as you are shouting for the right team they will leave you alone.......lol, where did you blow in from?
I blew in from Switzerland, Cheshire, Bedfordshire in that order (yep, one of *them*). Fully integrated, kids in the gaelscoil, the works. Great place, Kilkenny. Turnip is setting roots here.
Ah now Ruby you will always be a blow in , even if you have been there for a 100 years........lol.....My Dad is a Kilkenny man, even though the rest of us are from Wexford, God forbid if we waved the wexford flag at a hurling match, Yeah my sister has her Kid in Gaelscoil,in Co. waterford, wish we could have afforded that when i grew up there, i speak better Spanish than i do Irish, ah well the sentence "tá scamaill sa spéir"........has been so much use for me NOT......hope your kids are teaching you some, i lived in Norfolk for about 11 years, we are all are coming and going somewhere.....
Wherever I lay my hat etc. Coming originally from Luton, which is only one step up from Slough, I'm happy to jump on a bandwagon, especially one with a great castle, tons of pubs etc.My vocab is limited to numbers, colours, the Luas red line stops and parts of the Waterford - Dublin train announcements. But I do have fluent German from the 7 years in Heidi-land. Did you spend some time in Spain?
Ah the sentence i just said then, was there are clouds in the sky, why we needed that sentence i dont know and how that is one that stuck in my mind i dont know either.........Oh i thought Heidi was from Austria,i must get out more........I live in Honduras now, so that is where the jungle spanish comes in , the french and the German i learned in school never really stuck in my brain, and considering a high percentage of the world speaks spanish i wonder why the nuns never taught us that???
Heidi is Swiss.... but there are a lot of Heidis in Germany.
Looking forward to getting the October read. I was tempted to nominate something I've already read (always looking for a short cut!) but resisting that.
Hi all. A little something new out of Kilkenny this week! The Crucible (Part 1) by Ruby Barnes is my latest release. If any group member is interested in reviewing I can provide a copy (mobi format for kindle or kindle app). Paperback should be out end of summer.Southern Cameroon, West Africa 1936
A virus mutated and crossed the barrier from primate to human. In less than a century it had claimed the lives of twenty-five million people. Africa, a land of natural beauty and riches, ripe for plunder, full of dark menace.
In a near future scenario of viral pandemic, global religious conflict, climate change and mass migration, America and the Middle East are locked in a religious fundamentalist race to Armageddon, while the old nations of Europe flex their imperial muscles. Will mankind rediscover the Garden of Eden or ignite the crucible of the apocalypse?
The Europeans are using stealth and Thomas is the most deadly of mercenaries. Any conscience he had died with his wife and children under a blood-soaked African sun. He works for an agency with a taste for righting wrongs on a grand scale - an organisation with deep pockets, altruistic motives and a pragmatic approach to the dispensation of justice.
Greg is a failed philanderer and small-time inventor, struggling to earn a crust for his family. When the enigmatic Thomas steals his identity, Greg is lured into a web of global corruption, conspiracy and murder. But are these unlikely friends really on the side of good or evil?
Available on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008N04T6U
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008N04T6U
I'm a reader and author based in Kilkenny. I read paper and e-books and write quirky crime thrillers.
My first novel PERIL came out as an independent ebook earlier this year and I'm on the closing straight with my next, which is much darker stuff. We have a writer's group in Kilkenny and surround that has done 3 or 4 years on NUI courses and we're all mad about writing. Just that the day job gets in the way.
Tomorrow I'm off up to Dub to the Central Library, Ilac Centre, where there's a series of free talks on crime, the city and writing. Declan Burke, Irish author, is giving the first one. Can't wait.
Cheers
Ruby