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Glory Be to Gay
After six years of Internet friendship, I finally got to meet Roxane Gay last night at her excellent reading of Bad Feminist at a packed Mrs. Dalloway’s Books in Berkeley. She was everything I thought...
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Harder Than Fiction
Really pleased with, and grateful for, this review of Out of Dublin. Out of Dublin will be included in Shebook’s forthcoming print anthology, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You. I’ll be reading from Out of...
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Cover Reveal: Whatever Doesn’t Kill You
Come hear me, and my five fellow contributors, read from the forthcoming anthology Whatever Doesn’t Kill You: Six Memoirs of Resilience, Strength, and Forgiveness which includes the print version of my...
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Shebooks Giveaway
Shebooks have published their first anthology, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You: Six Memoirs of Resilience, Strength, and Forgiveness, a collection of six of its “Best of Shebooks 2014″ non-fiction essays...
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Congratulations, Winners
Congratulations winners of the Shebooks first print anthology, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You. Please send me your addresses and I’ll get your copy in the mail right away. Huge thanks to all for entering...
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Wait till I tell you
was something my dad often said before he’d start a sceal (the fada accent is missing from sceal, look both ‘sceal’ and ‘fada’ up if you need to). Wait till I tell you, driving scares me, especially...
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Getting Heard
The Shebooks anthology, Whatever Doesn’t Kill You, won a silver medal in the Independent Book Publisher (IPPY) Awards. My memoir single, Out of Dublin, is included in the anthology. Huge congrats to...
View ArticleHalleluia
My first novel, The Kingdom Keeper, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in early 2017. I find it impossible to put into words how happy, and relieved, and grateful I feel. The publicity blurb:...
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A Master Plan for Rescue
Bay Area Friends, one week from today, on Thursday, July 16th at 7:30 pm, I’m in conversation with Janis Cooke Newman at The Booksmith, San Francisco, to discuss her tender, imaginative, and gripping...
View ArticleExciting Writing Workshop & Banquet Dinner Giveaway
There’s not much to be said about the period except that most writers don’t reach it soon enough. – William Zinsser I’m excited to return a second time to teach my ‘Brilliance of Brevity’ writing...
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It’s Book Cover Time!
My first novel, The Weight of Him, will publish from St. Martin’s Press in February, 2017. While I excitedly await what my editor, Brenda Copeland, and SMP’s Creative Director, Michael Storrings, magic...
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What Lies Between Us
I wasn’t immediately drawn into Nayomi Munaweera’s searing novel, What Lies Between Us. I found the prologue evasive and withholding rather than suspenseful, but thereafter I was quickly hooked. And...
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First Joe Plumeri Fellowship
I am thrilled and grateful to have won the inaugural Joe Plumeri Fellowship for my forthcoming first novel, The Weight of Him. The fellowship is in memory of Joe Plumeri’s son, Christian, and is...
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I just had my author photo taken for my novel. I have an irrational almost-fear/total discomfort with the camera. I carry my tension and anxiety in my jaw and in photos my mouth looks weird and my...
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St. Martin’s Press are giving away 30 galley copies of my first novel, The Weight of Him, on Goodreads. The novel publishes on February 14, 2017. That seems like a long way away. It is and it isn’t....
View ArticlePress Release for Inaugural Los Gatos Listowel Writers’ Week
The heart and soul of Irish culture comes to the Bay Area with the debut of the Los Gatos-Listowel Writers’ Week. Listowel is not only the sister city of Los Gatos, but also home to one of Ireland’s...
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The Shortest Post Ever on Reading, Sex, Crime, Workshops & Wine. You’re welcome.
I’ve lived in San Francisco for over twenty years and I’ve never been to Los Gatos! That will be fixed this Friday when I travel to the 2016 Los Gatos – Listowel Writers’ Festival. I’m giving a free...
View ArticleIrish Writers Respond to the Election Result, for the Irish Times
And it takes some scrolling down, but I’m in there amongst some excellent commentary, and some other commentary that’s…well I’ll let you decide for yourself.
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Salvage
I love flowers. Especially roses, orchids, and hydrangeas. Amongst my favorite flowers I favor certain colors–white orchids and hydrangeas, and roses in all colors except red. Which is strange because...
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Signed Bookplate
Hey, it’s Cyber Monday! Pre-order The Weight of Him today and I’ll send you a signed bookplate! And, remember, even online shopping can support your local independent bookshop/small business. I’d like...
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