Reading for research and also for pleasure. A history book and a crime novel.

August 2022 is looking like a slower month for my book orders. These are the total orders since I self-published my first novel back in...

Irish historical novel recounting the story of two intrepid young women, living through the Famine years.

Researching emigration in my own family. Census records and photographs.

Indie writers and creative writing workshops

The Journey My protagonist, Annie Power, and her siblings, left Ireland in June 1846. In 'Daughters of the Famine Road,' they had planned...

Developing as an Indie writer and publisher of Irish historical novels.

Inspiration for a setting in my novel about the Irish Famine, 'Coming Home.'

It started with a short drive. I was in Ireland last week to babysit my grandsons. My daughter, Fran, was going to a wedding in Rome with...

Revising the end of my novel, I felt the ending was a bit too drawn out, not just for me and the characters, but for the reader. I...

I've had a very successful KDP free e-book promotion. It's fascinating to see where copies of 'Daughters of the Famine Road' are now. It...

It is 1846 and the Famine in Ireland is still building. At the end of my first novel, Daughters of the Famine Road, Jane Keating, one of...

She began her work in the Famine years Spent almost a century as a fighter. Made bowls of steaming broth for the starving children of...

The creative and marketing work of an Indie writer

Lady Winifred married into a Scottish Royalist family in the early 18th century and became the Countess of Nithsdale. The author, Morag...

To write about Irish women as protagonists in their stories. To research, understand and depict important periods of Irish modern...

I'm editing the second historical novel in a trilogy about the Irish Famine years. Annie Power and Jane Keating both left Ireland in the...

I used to work in Northampton, and some of my students came from the Caroline Chisholm School, in the south of the county. The name of...

Jane, will live a long life. Born in Galway in 1830, she will be almost eighty-six years old on the 24th April 1916, and she will witness...