Category Archives: Allen and unwin

Yippeee… and here we go again!

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

Much to my and my editors extreme shock I’ve finished The Vast Edit with two weeks to spare! Cue Mssrs Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, here for the sole purpose of expressing my joy… I had fully intended to take … Continue reading →

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Nary a dog will be fed nor child washed til Christmas…

Posted on November 21, 2012 by

Behold my kitchen table. See it contains all I need to bully my vast behemoth of a novel into something rather more readable and good. To the right of screen, the notes, letters, timelines and character sheets upon which my beloved Ms Elise … Continue reading →

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Breakfast Telly interview (Into The Grey)

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

I had a lovely time with Sinead Desmond and Aidan Cooney on TV3AM breakfast television show this morning. We talked about Into The Grey (Taken Away) having won the CBI Book of the Year and Children’s Choice Book awards 2012. … Continue reading →

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Goodbye to my darling Aussie

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

Well, she’s gone. My beloved Elise Jones, editor, co-conspirator, and fruit-loop extraordinaire. She and her amazingly tall companion have departed. Woe. Sorrow. Loneliness. I’m weeping quietly as I scoop the last of the koala bear poop into a forlornly discarded corkbobble hat. My house no … Continue reading →

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Five Sleeps til the Australian Landing

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

See this woman? See her? Do you know who that is? That, dear friend and heart, is my beloved, my darling, my I’m-never-letting-you-go-as-long-as-I-have-finger-nails-to-cling-with* Australian editor Ms Elise Jones. I may have mentioned her before** but in case you don’t know, Elise … Continue reading →

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Into The Grey/Taken Away Podcast now up :)

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

Many thanks to Gráinne Clear over at RTE’s Little Pages children’s book review program for this post awards interview. I love book shows that are actually about books and interviewers that are genuinely interested in the medium. Little Pages is … Continue reading →

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Names, names, names redux

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

On a recent visit to Kings Hospital School in Dublin, a lovely young woman called Cassie asked me about the names used in Moorehawke. I had meant to link her to this post from  August 2010, but I had forgotten … Continue reading →

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Book of The Year Award Double Whammy

Posted on May 30, 2012 by

I’m more than a little bleary eyed today folks. It’s taken quite a while to realise that Monday morning wasn’t a dream, and that Into The Grey (Taken Away) actually has won Best Book of the Year in the 2012 CBI Awards. … Continue reading →

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Thank you, Crevan!

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

I just got this terrific letter from one of the readers on the CBI Awards shadowing scheme. I love it so much! I especially love the drawing of Dom and Pat up on the totem pole and of James ( … Continue reading →

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I’m baaaaacccckkkk

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

A quick note to say sorry for the silence!! My second laptop went and turned up its toes on me a couple of weeks ago and I’m such a webtrog that it’s taken me THIS LONG to figure out the … Continue reading →

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