How My Blog Got Its Name

The name for my blog actually comes from the very first novel I began writing when I was eighteen years old. It was called The Umbrella Girl and I nearly wrote the whole thing out by hand, on paper. Those were the days when I didn’t own a laptop and there was no...

One Smile: A Short Story

Last year I made the runner up list in a short story competition run by Penguin Ireland. I’ve been thinking about maybe turning it into a novel. The title of the story is One Smile. Any thoughts, comments or critiques are welcome. Strange isn’t it, how one...