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Pink Tea and Paper: 2015 initialising. . . .

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Pink Tea and Paper. Friday, January 9, 2015. 2015 initialising. . . . Every year since I started this blog, my goal for the year has been to get published. Some years, it was to get fucking published, depending on how unhappy I was in January and how much I felt I needed the endorsement of a kindly publisher to smile upon this thing I have done with my life on and off since I was five years old. But that isn't entirely under my control, so I always tried to set some goals I could. I would like to finish ...

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Pink Tea and Paper: Guest Post: The Streets of New York, Paul Anthony Shortt: Memory War blog tour

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Pink Tea and Paper. Thursday, September 11, 2014. Guest Post: The Streets of New York, Paul Anthony Shortt: Memory War blog tour. Guys, I've been following my friend Paul Anthony Shortt's writing journey since Facebook was not yet a thing and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, so it's a real honour to feature him on the blog today as he promotes his latest novel and the final instalment of his debut trilogy,. Paul at the launch of the first instalment of his debut trilogy. The Streets of New York. Growing up su...

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Pink Tea and Paper: Books That Are 'Bigger' Than You: Tell Me Yours

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Pink Tea and Paper. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. Books That Are 'Bigger' Than You: Tell Me Yours. It was late February 2008. I was in the centre of Dublin, killing time until the next showing of Juno. I went into the Kylemore Cafe in the Stephen's Green Shopping centre - not somewhere I eat often, but it has a couple of huge advantages:. 1 No one aggressively whips away your plate saying 'Can I get you anything else? With a fake smile if you sit there for too long, and. Of Jack. His alarm clock, his work...

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Pink Tea and Paper: Culture Night @ The Irish Writers' Centre

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Pink Tea and Paper. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. Culture Night @ The Irish Writers' Centre. Happens once a year in Dublin - museums and cultural attractions stay open late, run cool events and everything is free. It's one of my favourite nights of the year. The streets have a real carnival atmosphere, but unusually for Dublin, almost everyone is sober. Except for that guy who is yelling (in Dublin, there is almost always a guy who is yelling, especially if you're on O'Connell Street). I don’t remem...

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Pink Tea and Paper: Link: Elizabeth O. Dulemba on Stories Bigger Than You

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Pink Tea and Paper. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Link: Elizabeth O. Dulemba on Stories Bigger Than You. Every now and again I'm browsing the net and something hits me between the eyes. Today it was Elizabeth O. Dulemba on Janice Hardy's excellent blog. Talking about tackling stories that are bigger than you are. She says:. They stood like gnarled oak trees in their denim overalls and plaid flannel shirts and told heart-breaking stories of their family, friends and coworkers who had been lost to injury or illne...

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Pink Tea and Paper: Open Mic @ Dalkey Creates festival, Dublin

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Pink Tea and Paper. Friday, October 31, 2014. Open Mic @ Dalkey Creates festival, Dublin. The lovely Sheena Lambert. Is being kind about my recent reading at Dalkey Creates. So it seemed like a good time to share a photo of me reading out loud as though I am someone who can read out loud without passing out. Once again, I read from my novel The Soldiers of Bruges (STATUS: first draft finished, second draft OH DEAR GOD MAKE IT STOP - there is a very short extract here. November 1, 2014 at 2:43 PM. Interes...

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Pink Tea and Paper: Yes: The Marriage Referendum and the importance of family

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Pink Tea and Paper. Friday, May 22, 2015. Yes: The Marriage Referendum and the importance of family. Today I went to the voting booth today with my mother, and we had our obligatory conversation. About how my grandmother was born into a world which would have denied all three of us the vote because of our gender. We say this every time we vote. It's a tradition. Every family has those things - conversations and topics you return to, like the chorus of a song. Because family is not something that happens&...

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Pink Tea and Paper: Guest Post: Careful With That Axe, Eugene! – Peter McCluskey on his new Murder Mystery Book.

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Pink Tea and Paper. Monday, December 15, 2014. Guest Post: Careful With That Axe, Eugene! 8211; Peter McCluskey on his new Murder Mystery Book. It’s great to have a chance to do another guest post for Ellen on her Pink Tea and Paper blog. I’m delighted to appear again. A couple of months back I had written 95% of my latest novel, “Careful With That Axe, Eugene! I came back around the lighthouse and the man was still sitting on the bench, engrossed in his newspaper. I stopped in my tracks in front of him.

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Pink Tea and Paper: The Return of Nathan Shepherd: Paul Anthony Shortt's New Book!

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Pink Tea and Paper. Tuesday, October 1, 2013. The Return of Nathan Shepherd: Paul Anthony Shortt's New Book! And who is she? I'll give you a clue - she has an explosive history with Nathan and she kicks arse. The next instalment of Nathan Shepherd's story is launching this month, so my old friend Paul Anthony Shortt is here to kick off his blog tour and talk about where his series goes from here. The Nathan we see in Silent Oath. Cadence Brook, the witch from Boston, returns to New York, eager to help he...

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Pink Tea and Paper: Language on the internet is becoming. . . kind of self-effacing? Could we maybe not?

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Pink Tea and Paper. Tuesday, June 30, 2015. Language on the internet is becoming. . . kind of self-effacing? Could we maybe not? I love slang. It's colourful, rich, vivid. It allows language to evolve. Without the evolution of language, I would be introducing myself by saying "My paternal grandmother's name being Ellen, and my father's family name Brickley. . ." instead of "Hi, I'm Ellen. I heard there was chai? But one thing about internet slang is kind of . . . bothering me? Chai lattes. They are t...