Irish Readers discussion

Hi,

I just joined Goodreads a couple of months ago, and am trying to get a little more active. I stumbled onto this group while looking at the groups page to see if there was a "help" forum.

I have a strong interest in the writers of the Irish literary renaissance (Yeats, Lady Gregory, et. al.). I also love the old stories (Cuchulain, the Book of Invasions, etc.).

My reading interests in general are all over the map - SF/Fantasy, a little romance, the occasional thriller, a few select mysteries, and non-fiction. My wife and I are both bookaholics - our idea of how to have a romantic weekend involves driving around to used book stores.

I'm also a writer myself. I've had one novel and four short stories published, all GLBT romance. I'm currently working on a thriller set in Israel which has no romance content at all, and I have plans on the drawing board for a historical fantasy set in 1916 Dublin.

Hi Kathryn, welcome! Nice to have writers in the group, want to throw up a link for your published work for me to have a gawk at?!!:P Assuming they are on GR ofc

Thanks for the welcome. :-)

I've got an author page here: http://www.goodreads.com/kathrynscannell

I should warn you that they're all quite x-rated.

Two of the stories, Leap of Faith and Private Performance are out of contract now, and not available any longer, having finished their contracted runs. I'm thinking about making them available again through something like Smashwords, but I need to figure out the formatting required first, and put together a new cover for Private Performance.

I had quite a bit of fun with Private Performance - it's a historical set in Dublin, around the opening of the Abbey Theatre. It was a test drive of the characters I'm planning to use in my 1916 novel, although I think the novel will be far less romance-focused.

Hi Kathryn. Nice to meet you. I'm looking forward to reading your work.

It's great that your writing Irish inspired stories. We've been reading Joseph O'Connor in the group recently, so I'm sure there will be a number of members interested in reading more stories set in that era.

Kathryn wrote: "I should warn you that they're all quite x-rated.
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OMG THATS DISGUSTING. :p

Lol, published is published is published. Don't worry about that, we're pretty open minded here anyway. Most of us anyway. Best of luck sorting Private Performance out. :)

So far Private Performance is the only one in an Irish setting. Historical fiction is *hard*. You study history and think you know the period, and then as soon as you start writing you realize that none of the history books talked about the things you want to know to write a novel, where people expect to get details like what the characters are wearing, or what the street looks like.

The history book will say they had rifles, or maybe if it's detailed "outdated, German rifles." But if a military history buff picks up the book, they want to know what kind, and you'd better get those details right.

Fantasy is soooo much easier. All you have to do there is keep the internal details consistent.