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Top Influences In Recent Years
The other day I wrote a post about two Irish writers who have deeply influenced me as both a reader and a writer in recent years. Someone asked me if I would share list of writers that have influenced my own work and explain why they were so influential. I decided it wouldn’t hurt. Mind you the list is always…
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On Being A Female (Magician)
The following question was posted to my blog earlier today from a reader, and due to the nature of it, I thought the answer deserved its own blog post. Here is the question: Off topic, but I guess this came up because of mother’s day. In recent times particularly on the internet there has been a lot of discussion about…
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How I Fell in Love With Two Irish Writers
I didn’t mean to. I mean, I’d heard about their books and people told me I should check out their work and so I did. I put Maeve Binchy’s Circle of Friends and Paul Murray’s An Evening of Long Goodbyes on my to-be-read list and that was that. For years those books sat on the TBR list, and for years I…