As some of you may know, Butterfly, a novel is tangentially about time travel. Claire North, author of the dazzling The Fifteen First Lives of Harry August, has written a blog post for Waterstones about just that very subject, since her book has a slightly different take on time travel than the usual “hop in a machine/Delorean…
More adventures you probably want to hear about in my thrilling hunt for an agent for Butterfly, a novel! (Psst… don’t miss the original) [View the story “The Agent Hunt, Continued” on Storify]
A little story about the currently in-progress agent hunt. [View the story “The Agent Hunt” on Storify]
I don’t know why on God’s Green Earth you’d want to, but you can now ask me questions on Goodreads. As of now there’s no limit of one per customer, and I’ll try to get to the questions every day, unless I forget. C’mon, surely you had burning questions about “The Man in my Nostril,”…
If you have ears you might like to get down to Listowel tonight to hear Joseph O’Connor read at the writers’ festival this evening. https://writersweek.ticketsolve.com/mobile/shows/873514085/events
Well, youse fellas have already seen it, back at Christmas-time, but I figured, in honor of Saint Patrick’s very own day, I would re-publish (by just re-linking) my short story about Saint Patrick’s next trick, after ridding Ireland of all the snakes. So don’t waste any time, just go download “Saint Patrick’s Next Trick,” which…
Okay, so I’m not supposed to be doing this — the writing of this post or the playing of the video game I’m about to mention — but the greatest video game of all-time has been spiffed up and re-released by the BBC. Written by Douglas Adams, the text-based game is based on the text-based…
I’m typing this to you from an undisclosed location on a stolen WiFi signal (rigged, MacGuyver-style, from a coffee filter, three paperclips, a filling from one of my teeth, and a pencil) so my minders won’t know that I’m not feverishly typing away at Butterfly. I am still alive. Send Dunks.
As a meager thank you for reading these very words, I want to present to you the Mona Schreiber Prize-Losing short story, “Saint Patrick’s Next Trick.” It’s a story about the truth behind Saint Patrick’s miracles, especially out on the west coast of Ireland. You’ll learn things you maybe only suspected in this gripping tale…