Kindle

Well the stars have aligned, Mars has come into cojunction with Venus and I am suddenly and unexpectedly in possession of some money. I won a quiz about Bioshock Infinite on the Escapist Magazine, the prize was $100 dollar gift voucher for Amazon.com. My internet service provider, for reasons that I’m not going to question, […]

Chuck Wendig: A Writer’s Prayer

Chuck Wendig’s Writer’s prayer should be compulsory reading for all writers. Go read it, read it now. I’ll wait… Did you read it? Of course you didn’t. I’ll give you another chance to follow the link… Hillarious right? But true. Here are the concluding lines: I am the Commander of these words. I am the […]

A Response to Kevin Myers Article in Yesterday’s Irish Independent

So I started a new blog and almost immediately forgot the password but inspiration struck and I’m back again. This is a response to Kevin Myers Article “State Support Only lends Madness to Libraries” in yesterday’s (17th August 2011) Irish Independent. I should start by saying I’m not a fan of Myer’s so this post […]

‘Rapeseed’

  So, Considering I’m only two weeks away from holding a finished draft in my hands, I thought I’d take this opportunity to explain at least a little bit of what I’ve been at. My work in progress is a novel set in Cold War Ireland form the point of view of a twelve-year-old girl […]

New address

So this has moved to a new address because frankly afunnythinginthelibrary.wordpress.org is just too awkward and hard to remember. I made it up on the spot because I was too lazy to really think hard about it. This is also a bit of shameless self-promotion in a bid to help get my name out there […]