A Strange Fire Promo

Hello! In promotion of my YA Paranormal Romance novel A Strange Fire it is free for the next 3 days on Amazon. The story is a spooky one with romance, supernatural teenagers, drama, mystery and horror. Here’s a short synopsis if you’re interested…...

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...

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2012

So the ABNA 2012 competition is finally open. I’m entering in the YA section this year, I entered the general fiction section last year with my one and only vampire story. Unfortunately, people are a little bit prejudiced against vampires these days, perhaps...

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...

Bloodrose and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Movie

So this blog will be dedicated to my thoughts on the last in Andrea Cremer’s Nightshade trilogy, Bloodrose, and the American version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” movie, which I went to see a few weeks ago and have been meaning to blog about....