How I Write – Niamh Garvey
Niamh Garvey is an emerging author who writes novels, stories and poems, mostly for young adults and children. She lives in Cork with her husband and two young daughters. She works, very part time, as […]
Articles by LadyNicci
Alpha Beta Tomayto Tomata -It’s gone
So it’s gone. Out to the world. Or at least three people’s worlds. I’m trying to forget about it. I’m trying to not let it swirl round my head, but it’s difficult and I keep […]
How I Write – Ciarán McCabe
Ciarán McCabe is from Drogheda, Co Louth and has an MA in Screenwriting and a Degree in Directing for Drama. He has high hopes of one day seeing his feature scripts on the big screen, […]
Return to Slimming World: the ‘journey’ continues
Oh hello Slimming World. My old friend. My spray on, low fat, fruit in the morning instead of biscuits, FWEND. To be fair our relationship rekindling had been coming a while. There was the weight […]
How I Write – Gillian McAllister
Gillian McAllister is an author, due to be published by Penguin next year, and a lawyer. She goes by the name Gilly, blogs at BillyGean.co.uk and lives in Birmingham with her very funny boyfriend and […]
Eight ways the spammers try to GET YOU
We’re all familiar with spam. If you’re of a vintage like myself you would have started receiving it in the 90s to your yahoo or hotmail account. (Remember those!?) Before that, the closest we would […]
10 places you need to wear a shirt dress to
Is it a shirt? Is it a dress? Does it belong in his or my wardrobe? I LOVE shirt dresses. I don’t know where the penchant for them came from, but I have a few […]
How not to be a successful blogger
Do you ever try and further yourself and come out of it feeling like giving up? Like when you go to the gym but after three classes, you forget to go back and put on […]
How I Write – E.R. Murray
Elizabeth Rose Murray lives in West Cork where she writes, fishes, and grows her own vegetables. Her debut novel for children aged 8–12, The Book of Learning – Nine Lives Trilogy 1 was chosen as […]
How I Write – Catherine Ryan Howard
Catherine Ryan Howard was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1982. Prior to writing full-time, Catherine worked as a campsite courier in France and a front desk agent in Walt Disney World, Florida, and most recently […]
Diary of a one year old: 20 months
I was thinking about not writing an update this month. I just didn’t feel like it. I have the Mammy moods – probably brought on by the latest trudge of cooking, cleaning, wakening and changing […]
How I Write – Adele O’Neill
Adele O’ Neill has just completed the first draft of her debut novel Accidental Secrets. Having written in secret for years she has only recently admitted to being a writer as she prepares for the […]
Netflix: saving parents’ sanity one Disney movie at a time
I think I’m done with TV. Children’s TV channels get switched on in our house as soon as the child is awake and don’t go off until she’s gone to bed. She knew what the […]
How I Write – Henry McDonald
Henry McDonald is Ireland Correspondent for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers, has written for The Irish News, Evening Press, The Sunday Times, GQ, The Spectator and the Belfast Telegraph and is a journalism lecturer […]