November News, 2011

Getting a new collection of short stories ready for publication. Quare Hawks contains 11 stories, including award winning tales Bobogue and Mr. Jones. Other stories are Waiting for a Miracle, It couldn’t Have Happened to a Nicer Man, Harry’s Karma, Blue Money, When Everyone in Ballygale had Helicopters, Couples, Morning Tea, After Hours and Finito. The stories are all set in the West of Ireland and contain a formidable cast of characters.

Quare Hawks will be first published for Kindle and other electronic reading devises. It will be published in print in 2012.

Cover taken from Phillip Morrison’s painting ‘Going to Mass”.

More News, September 28, 2011

5 star review for The Poet, the Psychic and the Knave

http://www.amazon.com/Poet-Psychic-Knave-ebook/product-reviews/B005KYZ94I/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

September News, 2011

just published a novella, The Poet, the Psychic and the Knave for the Kindle. If you don't have a kindle, just download the free Kindle app from Amazon and away you go. Here's a description of the book:

Out of touch for years, a poet and a psychic meet on an Irish country road, when he stops to give her a ride. Molly tells Paddy she now works for a psychic telephone line, and he hears about the problems and dilemmas of her clients, and especially about Stanley, a dwarf with a Bono fetish.

A few months later Molly calls Paddy, and asks for help with a situation: Stanley has become a DJ and is doing a residency at a local resort. He wants to meet his psychic and the prospect is unsettling her. So she asks Paddy to be her escort. He agrees, and takes her to see the DJ. The meeting goes haywire and thus begins a love story and the bursting open of Stanley Huffington’s secret life.

Set in rural Ireland, Dublin, Barcelona and elsewhere, The Poet, the Psychic and the Knave, is a beautifully crafted novella. Told in alternating voices of the poet, psychic, dwarf and narrator, it a story with humor, poignancy and misguided redemption.

Available from Amazon.uk — http://tinyurl.com/3qtryr2

Available from Amazon.com — http://tinyurl.com/3l4pzsg