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Sep122018

#IrishIndependentAuthorsCollective: #IIAC Author Interview with Ellie Rose McKee @EllieRose101 for #IrishIndieAuthors @IrishIndAuthorsC

Welcome to the weekly Irish Independent Authors Collective (IIAC) author interviews. Today on my blog, I’m delighted to introduce you all to Ellie Rose McKee. I hope you all enjoy learning more about Ellie and be sure to check out her books.

Ellie Rose McKee

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Sep052018

#IrishIndependentAuthorsCollective: #IIAC Author Interview with Robert McLoughlin for #IrishIndieAuthors @IrishIndAuthorsC

Welcome to the weekly Irish Independent Authors Collective (IIAC) author interviews. Today on my blog, I’m delighted to introduce you all to Robert McLoughlin. I hope you all enjoy learning more about Robert and be sure to check out his books.

Robert McLoughlin

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Aug152018

#IrishIndependentAuthorsCollective: #IIAC Author Interview with Philomena Barry for #IrishIndieAuthors @IrishIndAuthorsC

Welcome to the weekly Irish Independent Authors Collective (IIAC) author interviews. Today on my blog, I’m delighted to introduce you all to Philomena Barry. I hope you all enjoy learning more about Philomena and be sure to check out her book.

Philomena Barry

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Dec212017

Lost Perfection Published on Visual Verse

I love the Visual Verse website. Every month they have a picture prompt and writers are asked to submit a 500-word piece based on the picture. Your objective is to give yourself an hour and then submit the piece using their online form. I find this a really useful creative exercise and have had a number of pieces published on their site. The picture prompt for December resulted in a poem called Lost Perfection which is now live on their website.

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Jun232016

Wildflower Muse Submission Guidelines and My Published Poem

Publishing Success Wildflower Muse

Today I want to talk about the Wildflower Muse submission guidelines and share my wonderful publication news with you all. I came across Wildflower Muse while browsing through Duotrope. It was actually the first journal that I submitted poetry to when I began my journey back in April. I sent three poems on the 21st of April and received an email on the 26th of April to say that they would like to publish my poem “Mornings”. To say I was thrilled is an understatement. I was absolutely over the moon, and it reinforced my desire to see my work in print.

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Jun102016

How To Deal With Criticism

how to deal with criticism

Today was the first day in two weeks that I put pen to paper and wrote something new. The reason, I was learning how to deal with criticism. I decided a couple of weeks ago to get a professional critique on two of my poems. These were poems that were rejected for publication so I thought they would perfect to send off. My reason behind the professional critique was that I really want to have a book of poetry published by an Irish publisher. I love poetry and for me it is one of the easiest things to write. I can pen a poem in a matter of minutes and I really love it.

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