Showing posts with label The Herbalist Blog Tour Interviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Herbalist Blog Tour Interviews. Show all posts

Over at Old Kitty's


Charlie & The Herbalist
As all good thing come to an end, I'm in the UK today on Old Kitty's blog for my last blog tour stop.

Old Kitty is a prolific, loyal and warm hearted blogger. She's also a poet and short fiction writer whose work appears in 100 Stories for Queensland and 100 stories for Haiti, amongst other publications.

You can read our chat Here

WomenRuleWriter Interview


I'm over at Nuala Ni Chonchúir's WomenRuleWriter Blog in Galway today.

Nuala is an award winning novelist, short story writer and poet.  Here's The Irish Times on her latest short story collection Mother America - Ní Chonchúir’s precisely made but deliciously sensual stories mark her as a carrier of Edna O’Brien’s flame.’ 

One of Nuala's questions was Who are the women writers who make you think yes! and why? You can read my answer, and the full interview here

 Next week I'll be in the UK for my last interview chatting to Jennifer aka Old Kitty.

Wonderful Wonderful Wagon!


Columnist and writer Gwen Loughman posts with wicked humour and complete honesty about family life, motherhood & running (amongst many other things) on her Wonderful Wagon Blog

 - as she says herself - 'this blog is my attempt at recording the mayhem that is my life with the intention of reading back over it in my Autumnal years and laughing. 

I'm really delighted to be over chatting with her today, you can read my interview with Gwen here

Chug, Chug....



I had a lovely time visiting book shops in Kilkenny City today, so for anyone who wants signed copies of The Herbalist (I'm not an egomaniac honest - people have been enquiring after them!) they are now available from  Dubray Books, The Book Centre and Stone House Books.

Liz from Stonehouse Books asked me to come back to the shop to do 'something quirky' in the autumn, so it won't be your average book reading -  I'll keep you informed! I also met Kathleen there, and she's the second person I've been in touch with from Portland, Oregon who's reading The Herbalist! Its wonderful to meet readers, its not something I considered when I wrote the book, but its quickly become one the nicest parts of being a published author. And I'm grateful too, to the reviewers and readers who 'get' my book, and feel for the characters, and have put it at number five in the Irish bestseller charts, which is no mean feat when Dan Brown has returned to push us all around - no offence Dan :)

As The Herbalist blog tour comes to its last few stops, I'm delighted to be over at crime writer Louise Phillips Blog. I met Louise when she was working on the book that became the very successful Red Ribbons. She's about to publish her second novel The Dolls House which sounds chilling to say the least. Feel free to leave comments or ask questions, its nice to know that someone is reading!
One of Louise's questions was....

What is the most important thing you have learnt about your writing during the last twelve months?

You can read my answer and the full interview HERE


The Three Question Blog Tour - Stop Five


I'm over at writer Shauna Gilligan's blog today where she asks me some fascinating questions about writing my novel The Herbalist.

Shauna is the author of Happiness Comes From Nowhere, she has been published widely and she has read from her work and  presented on writing at conferences in Europe and the USA.

Here's just one of the questions Shauna asked me...

Writer Vanessa Gebbie asked me this question in relation to my novel and I think it’s a wonderful thing to ask: if you could have a painting of one scene from the novel which would you pick and why? And who would you have create it?

You can read my answer, and the full interview by clicking Here

The Three Question Blog Tour - Stop Four!

 


Today I'm talking to Kate Dempsey about voice and clothes in The Herbalist

Kate runs Emerging Writer Blog - which is the by far the best blog going for information on submission opportunities and competitions - I was quite addicted to Kate's blog when I first started writing!

Kate is also the author of Some Poems. She was shortlisted for the Hennessey New Irish Writing award no less than three times, has been widely published and runs the Poetry Divas Collective, 'a glittering group of women who blur the wobbly boundaries between page and stage at cool events all over Ireland.' And if that wasnt enough, she also blogs about poetry for Writing.ie

You can read my interview with Kate HERE

The Three Question Blog Tour - Stop Three

Theresa Milstein

The Herbalist blog tour continues - today I'm over at Theresa Milstein's Blog talking about how I started writing.  Theresa and I have been blog friends since my first posts over four years ago, despite the fact that she lives in Arlington, Massachusetts and I live in Laois, Ireland. We share a love of writing and a curiosity about the process. Theresa writes novels for young adults and has also published short stories and poetry. You can read our interview by clicking HERE.

The Blog Tour Stops ....
27th June Kate Dempsey
1st July  Shauna Gilligan
4th July Louise Phillips
11th July  Gwen Loughman
18th July Nuala Ni Chonchuir  
25th July Jennifer Domingo

The Three Question Blog Tour: Stop Two

Alison Wells

Delighted to be over answering questions at Alison Wells Blog Head Above Water today. I met Alison in 2009 when we were both shortlisted for the Hennessy Award for fiction. She asked three questions about the writing of the novel. You can read my interview with Alison Here

I'm still reeling from the book launch in my wonderful home town of Athy. The novel sold out in a matter of minutes and the Library was packed to capacity. I'm overwhelmed by the support - and will post in more detail about it when I've recovered! A big thanks in the meantime to everyone who came :)

The Herbalist - The Blog Tour



I'll be taking this show on the virtual road for a series of mini- interviews this June. These guys are all brilliant multi genre writers as well as bloggers, so it should be a very interesting trip -

6 th June

June Caldwell of the Irish Writers Centre     

13th June
Alison Wells at Head Above Water

20th June
Kate Dempsey at Emerging Writer

There'll be more stops in July but I'll keep them a surprise, for now....oh the suspense :)

The Stinging Fly Summer Issue

 So, I have work in this beauty! "We Can't Have Artists Losing Their Tempers" is a short story featuring Brigid, a 93 year old...