Author Tracy Martin tells us her ‘writing has been shaped by procrastination, perseverance, paralysis, pain, resilience, humour, 3am soul‑talks and by the kind of perspective you only earn ...

Galway Public Libraries is set to deliver a first for Ireland with the introduction of the country’s first modern mobile library vehicles based on bus infrastructure, following the signing of ...

Welcome back to another week in the Irish bestselling books charts, where this week’s featured book is the very creepy-sounding new book from Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Said the Dead. With amazing ...

A new project, called Sensing Climate, is coming to Dublin this summer, including opportunities to take part in a series of free creative writing workshops. Sensing Climate is a research project that ...

How a Leadership Book Slowly Wrote Itself For years, I thought writing a book belonged to “other people”. Real writers. Academic people. People who knew what they were doing. Meanwhile, I was busy ...

Laurel Corona, author of Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel: What It’s Like to Write Another Book When Ten Years Ago I Swore I Wouldn’t I said I was done writing historical fiction. I originally had ...

Author Samantha Moody with some excellent tips on how to turn inspirational true events into works of fiction . . . Think about the craziest true event you’ve ever seen, read or heard about. Maybe ...

Perrin Pring, author of the just-published novel, Cash and Gravity, asks: Why is Your Query Letter Not Working? Let’s talk about querying. If you’re a U.S. author who is unagented, that word ...

How Murder on Lough Derg Came to Be Murder on Lough Derg grew out of the extraordinary summer of 2018, the year in which the novel is set. Ireland experienced one of its warmest and driest summers ...

Author Dwight Thompson tells us how his decision to move away from home played a major part in the writing of his new novel, My Own Dear People. V.S. Naipaul once said, “When I learnt to write I ...

Author N.R. Ashworth on writing and creating a ‘whole journey, a whole world, scenes I could already picture before we’d even rolled initiative’. I never imagined being a writer.