Author: helen

I recently attended a reading at a short story festival in Cork. It was a showcase of writing from a new literary journal in the city library. Four authors read their work. One woman, I can’t remember her name, read a story she’d written about an old man, walking to the bog, carrying a mysterious…

I’m reading Five Editors Tackle the Twelve Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing by C.S. Larkin et al and I highly recommend it. It is available on Amazon and it is a fabulous book that gives insider tips for fiction writing. One tip is the rule of three. After three paragraphs of backstory, come back to…

I am pleased to announce that I was successful in my application for a mentoring grant. This will enable me to pay the fees of a mentor. I am really excited to start the mentoring process. My last books were written without any outside help- no editing, no mentoring or book coaching. I have since…

I recently joined a writer’s group in my local area. I have tried writer’s groups before and some of them weren’t great. They were pretty uninspiring. However this group is great. We all gel really well and a published writer comes along once a month to give us tips and feedback. I would say to…

I have been reading a lot of Amazon ebooks lately and one of these kindle ebooks is “Top 100 Writing Tips, Tricks, Techniques and Tools from the Advice Toolbox” by Carter Blakelaw. This is is a very useful book on writing. It comprises lots of handy hints for writing your novel. One very good tip…

The novel I’m working on at the moment differs from Molly Moore in that it is a light novel, a romance. I hope to selfpublish it on kindle ebooks in July and you can watch my blog for novel updates. Enough about my novel. There was a scarecrow festival on in the village of Leap…