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The Giant and the Sun – The Silver Stream

The Myth, The Whole Myth And Nothing But The Myth

By The Owl Lady January 8, 2017 2 Comments

Originally posted on Author – Richard F Holmes:
Probably the greatest barrier to the enlightenment of the human race is that we are not interested in the truth; only the truth as we understand it. This monkey has just found out he is descended from human beings, having been told at school it was the…

Collaborating on a book

By The Owl Lady February 19, 2015 Leave a comment

Originally posted on Entertaining Stories:
I invited Ali Isaac and Jane Dougherty to talk about writing a collaborative book. I’ve written one story in concert with Mari Wells over Halloween, but we each wrote our own story. The collaboration was in making sure our tales complimented each other. Ali and Jane have a book out…

Release day

By The Owl Lady February 12, 2015 Leave a comment

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Today is the official launch of Grá mo Chroí, and what might just prove to be the first instalment of a clutch of retellings of Irish myths. It has been a real labour of love and I hope it’s a success. Not just because every writer wants their work…

lazy autumn day

By The Owl Lady February 10, 2015 2 Comments

Originally posted on Telling the Truth:
lazy autumn day black cat rests on fallen leaves– copper eye stalks prey * * * © Elouise Renich Fraser, 9 February 2015 Photo credit: DAFraser, September 2014 Outdoor Café at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania

Bailé calls to Aillinn

By The Owl Lady February 10, 2015 Leave a comment

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Grá mo Chroí poem of the day. The yew tree bows beneath the weight of tears, Though the heart beneath the cairn is still. The tide flows and ebbs upon the strand, But dry are his eyes, empty his hands. On a far hill without a fort An apple…

Caparison: decor of the past.

By The Owl Lady January 26, 2015 Leave a comment

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
I thnk it was some time in November last year that Ali Isaac first suggested we each write a retelling of an Irish legend to give away in a booklet which we would then fill up with promotion for the books we have already published. The idea took root,…

Rainbow’s end

By The Owl Lady November 7, 2014 4 Comments

When editing means murdering beautiful words

By The Owl Lady November 1, 2014 Leave a comment

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
When you revise a story you inevitably end up discarding sections to the greater good of the whole. Sometimes, often, these sections are dearly beloveds and it breaks our hearts to see them go. This is a section I’ve snipped out of my WIP and I can’t resign myself…

A Yorkshire legend…