Short Story Sunday: ‘Pocketful of Dharma’ by Paolo Bacigalupi
I bought this as part of the Humble Bundle months ago. Beacuse it was a lot of books at once it was a while before I got around to reading it. I’ve been dipping in and out of it over the past few weeks. Paolo Bacigalupi is a multi-award winning sci-fi author and it’s easy […]
Writing Spots: Keogh’s on Trinity Street
Keogh’s is a place I walk by frequently and am always tempted by the smell of their baking but I’ve never been inside until today. It’s a pretty cool little spot, right in the city centre but quiet inside. Very small and cosy. This was planned to be attempt number two at the sex scene […]
Short Story Sunday: ‘The Blind Chinese Soldiers’ by Hirabayashi Taiko
I haven’t read any long Japanese literature. It’s only ever been poems and short stories. I’ve seen a lot of their cartoons, films and played the games though. ‘Blind Chinese Soldiers’ is the most striking story I found in this little gem of a collection. The author is a woman who was writing at a […]
Writing spots: Costa Coffee on Dawson street
So I’ve recently started doing the majority of my writing in cafés and other places that are not my home. (I also recently bought a Mac. I know, I’ve become the enemy) Some places are better than others for a variety of reasons so I’ve decided to write about why this is just in case […]
Short Story Sunday: ‘The Fog’ by Freya McClements
I know it’s technically Monday but I haven’t gone to bed yet so it still feels like Sunday. That means short story Sunday ahoy! This week’s story is ‘The Fog’ by Freya McClements, whose debut collection of short stories is published by Guildhall Press. ‘The Fog’ can be read on Darker Times Fiction. They run […]
How to make an ebook in 14 easy steps
Over the past year I’ve made a few ebooks. My class in college self-published an anthology and, because I was insane at the time, I was the Associate Editor and Webmaster. This meant I had to learn how to e-publish. I thought it would be easy. Oh how wrong I was, Afterwards this publishing experience […]
Short Story Sunday: ‘Earworm’ by Julian Gough
Recently I’ve gotten into short stories in a big way. Most of what I write at the moment is short stories. I’m going to try and review one most Sundays because there is some incredible, often overlooked, stuff out there in this format. ‘Earworm’ is by Julian Gough and is the second story in Town […]
Review: “The Wormdigger’s Daughter” by John Farrell
This is the first fiction book I’ve read from a fellow Navanite (that’s what we call people who are from Navan, because we’re cool like that). I’m not entirely sure what I expected from this book so I feel I should tell the whole story of how I came to read it. Gather Round! Due […]
On Losing Iain Banks
(First published in Three Monkeys Online) “Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That’s my score to date. Three. I […]
I am technologically illiterate
So… This is awkward… What’s it been, like, 6 months? You’re looking well… How’s your family? I took a hiatus from the blog in order to buy my own URL and get it up and running as my own website. Due to extreme incompetence on my part this took forever. I had to enlist a […]