Novel Writing Course

		I'm really enjoying reading the chapters sent to me by the participants in next weekends Novel Writing Workshop. Organised by the Irish Writers Centre - it will run over next Sat and Sun, 2/ 3rd of Nov from 10.30-4.30 pm
The workshop will involve close readings your novel in progress. We'll also be covering characterisation, point of view,voice, beginnings and plot. I've devised it for writers who are stuck on some aspect of their novel. And there's still time to sign up - as long as you can email an extract from your novel straight away. For further details click HERE or phone Clodagh at 01 8721302.

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

Theresa Milstein at Theresa's Tales Of Teaching Tribulations And Typing Teen Texts    

27th 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 :)

Launch Of This Years Novel Fair Competition

Gabriele Munter

The Girl With the Red Ribbon

National Gallery Of Ireland

All are welcome to the second Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair Competition which will be launched at 7.30, on Wednesday June 27th: its a great opportunity for anyone who plans to enter the competition as it will involve a question and answer session with the Novel fair organisers.

From The Irish Writers Centre Site...

"The Novel Fair was a new initiative by the Irish Writers’ Centre launched in 2011. It aims to introduce up-and-coming writers to top publishers and literary agents, giving novelists the opportunity to bypass the slush pile, pitch their ideas and place their synopsis and sample chapters directly into the hands of publishers and agents.

Due to the success of the Fair we have decided to run it again in 2013, with an additional prize of a place on a seminar on 'How to Pitch Your Novel' to help the novelists perfect their presentations and material for the day.

The deadline for the competition this year is October 17th and the Novel Fair itself will take place on February 16th, 2013.

This year a judging panel will be asked to select a shortlist of ten successful entries, presented to them anonymously. There is no limitation on style, genre, or target market, the only requirement being that the writer has not published a novel before. Publishers and agents will be invited to come along on the day to the Irish Writers’ Centre and meet the ten selected writers in person. Each writer in attendance will have a stand at the Fair with copies of the synopsis of their novel, the finished novel itself and biographical material."