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Ed Ireland

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Born

in Philadelphia, PA, The United States

September 29, 1954

Website

http://www.edireland.net

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Genre

Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Crime

Influences

J.R.R. Tolkien of course. John Lennon, John Wayne and my family.

Member Since

March 2013

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/edireland

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AUTHOR BIO

Ed Ireland was born in Philadelphia on September 29, 1954. In January of 1955, the hospital he was born in was torn down. Presumably, they didn’t want anything like that happening again. His adolescence was shaped in Catholic school where the proper use of the common language was the only thing that mattered to the short but strong nuns.
In 1972 he joined the military where his wanderlust surfaced. He has since called many places home such as Texas, California, Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania New Jersey, New York and North Carolina while on his way to his current home in Miami, Florida. He claims his penchant for wandering is now at an end here in the shadows of Hemingway.
Along this great and wondrous trip, he has collected memori ...more

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Average rating: 4.68 · 47 ratings · 23 reviews · 15 distinct works

	The Last Ranger of Sarn (The Journals of the Huntress #1) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire At Dawn (The Trials of the Clans #1) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New Dawn (The Trials of the Clans #3) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Moon Sacrifice (The Journals of the Huntress #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stormrider (The Trials of the Clans #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crime Scene it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forgotten Treasure it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Chronicles of the Free People Trilogy Box Set it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Final Chapter it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Forgotten Treasure 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ed Ireland's Blog: Rant Around the Camp

Old "new" writers

Maybe I'm being harsh or maybe not. Does it piss anybody else off that J.K. Rowling actually tried to pass herself off as a "new" writer? Or the pseudo-anger at being found out?

Let me explain something. How many "new" writers have a publisher? Not Harvey Finkel who for $2000. will print enough copies to distribute a handful of books to the press, but a real publisher who throws himself into your w Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 16, 2013 04:50

Series by Ed Ireland

The Trials of the Clans (3 books)
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Ed Ireland (Goodreads Author)

4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings

The Journals of the Huntress (2 books)
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“No matter where you go...there you are.”
― Ed Ireland, The Last Ranger of Sarn

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“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”
― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

tags: humor, life, misattributed-john-wayne

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“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
― Truman Capote

tags: writing

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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

tags: inspirational, life

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“Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer."

[1967 interview]”
― Ray Bradbury

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“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

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message 6: by Ed (last edited Aug 01, 2017 07:30AM)

Aug 01, 2017 07:28AM

So, after spending time working with real editors while The Last Ranger of Sarn was being produced, I realized what a disservice I did to my first books. With renewed effort and lots of new knowledge, my Trilogy of the Free People has been rewritten as The Trials of the Clans with each story carefully edited and punched up. Things that I wished I had done the first time around are now in place. Suggestions that friends and other writers mentioned are also in place, bringing the stories to their full potential. In particular, the 2nd book, The Stormrider does exactly what the middle book is supposed to do. It bridges the beginning and ending of this epic story by bringing underlying elements closer to the light and ending or beginning them so that the entire story flows through time much better.
If anyone wants to read or reread my labor of love, I'm more than willing to hand free copies in exchange for reviews. Just send me a message and they're yours.

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message 5: by Ed

Dec 31, 2015 10:48AM

I am so pleased to announce the launch of my new website today. My writing career is about to take off (hopefully) and it was time for me to get a big boy website. Please, stop by and sign up for the newsletter and even more important, join the member's area for previews and other neat stuff.
www.edireland.net

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message 4: by Ed

Nov 28, 2014 07:05AM

Yeah, I don't keep myself in the broom closet either. We're moving to Florida soon and we hope to get a metaphysical shop up and running. We plan on being very vocal in the community...we're both hard-headed.
While none of my books openly say Wicca, all of us can recognize it easily.
BB

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message 3: by Ed

Nov 27, 2014 12:35PM

CeDany wrote: "I agree with you Ed! The wolves need protected as well as many more species - if we don't protect them as they have no (human) voice, they'll disappear forever and the balance will be thrown out to..."

We have a lot in common Ce...my wife and I follow the Wheel of the Year too. BB

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message 2: by KathyAnne

Mar 29, 2014 03:27PM