LIZ GALLAGHER'S IMPENDING VISIT

Make sure to swing by here on Thursday to meet Irish poet Liz Gallagher when I interview her on her Maximus Miracle Virtual Book Tour.

Liz lives in the Canary Islands but originally hails from Donegal. She's a fellow Salt author and I'm looking forward to cosying down for a chat with her on the 12th.

LAST STOP AUSTRALIA

Today I'm at Merc's World - the blog home of writer Sylvia Petter - for the last stop on my virtual tour. I thought I'd be glad but actually I'm sad it's all over, sniff sniff.

Merc usually resides in Vienna but at the moment she's at home in her native Australia, so my tour has circumnavigated the globe in true world tour style, from New Zealand to Ireland and the UK several times, to Switzerland, Norway and the USA, all the way back to the Antipodes and Oz. It's been fun. Thanks to those who followed it all.

We talk about smells (?), workshopping and how I found the tour here

NUDE TOUR RETURNS TO ENGLAND

I am here today at Vanessa Gebbie's blog on the penultimate stop on the Nude not Naked Tour.

As a virtuoso writer and editor Vanessa couldn't contain herself and asked more than the requisite 3 questions but her questions were so interesting, I didn't mind at all. Hope you enjoy the interview and thanks for sticking with me thus far.

NUDE IN NORWAY

This week my virtual tour takes me to Irish writer and journalist Johanna C. Leahy's blog in Oslo.
We talk about Trinity College, my path to publication, blogging and, of course, short stories!
Clicky here to 'listen' in.

USA STOP ON VIRTUAL TOUR

I'm in the US of A today on my Nude not Naked Virtual Book Tour, with the lovely Dawn Rennert, at her blog She Is Too Fond of Books.

We talk about themes, animating the inanimate and the difference between nude and naked. Toddle over there and see what else we talked about. Leave a comment if you like!

WIN COPIES OF NUDE - IN GENEVA WITH PETINA!

Today on my virtual tour, I am in the company of the beautiul and megawatt-talented writer Petina Gappah in Geneva, Switzerland. Petina is from Zimbabwe and her collection An Elegy for Easterly was recently shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Award. We talk about lots of stuff: writing with a family, ideal dinner party writer-guests and, of course, short stories.

Petina is giving away 2 signed copies of Nude to readers of the blog. Head on over to win one and read our chat here.

NUDE TOURING IN DUNDALK

Today sees the halfway mark on my Nude Not Naked Tour - my virtual tour - and it takes me to downtown Dundalk, County Louth, to the blog-home of writer/teacher/mother-of-seven/general Wonder Woman Barbara Smith.

Barbara is a fine writer and she asks incisive, interesting questions about the short stories in the book. Clicky HERE to read our chat.

NUDE NOT NAKED IN ENGLAND TODAY!

This week on my Cyclone virtual tour I'm at writer/bookseller/blogger/reviewer Sara Crowley's blog A Salted and I've given her an exclusive on some recent news. Sara's questions are fabulous - my kind of questions - and I thoroughly enjoyed my virtual stop off in lovely England.

Click HERE to read our chat about naming characters, novels, opening lines and a Smash Hits style round-up of a few of my favourite things.

VIRTUAL TOUR FOR NUDE - DUBLIN TODAY!

This week I'm kindly hosted by writer Colm Keegan at his Uiscebots Blog in downtown Clondalkin, County Dublin - I grew up a few miles from here, so it's lovely to be home. I really enjoyed Colm's interview questions about relationships, stories and inspirational material.

Head on over there to see what we talked about.

VIRTUALLY IN BRISTOL

Today, I'm in Bristol, England where Tania is attempting to acclimatise to the wet after years living in Jerusalem. Yes, my friend, fellow Salt author, blogger and editor of the super Short Review Tania Hershman, invited me round for a chat about Nude today. See her blog HERE for Stop 2 on my virtual tour.

PUBLICATION DAY AND I'M 'IN' NEW ZEALAND!

This is publication day for Nude my new short fiction collection from Salt Publishing!!

So while the middle child is back at school, the oldest child is snoozing, and with baby strapped on my back, I'm off to New Zealand for the day to visit the studio of wonder-blogger/writer/artist Rachel Fenton.

And she's painting my nude portrait while asking me questions about the book and writing in general. This is the first stop on my virtual book tour: The Nude not Naked Tour.

Go on over there and see what we talked about HERE.

NUDE NOT NAKED TOUR

I kick off my virtual tour for my new short fiction collection Nude on publication day, the 1st of September. That's next Tuesday - woo! I'm starting and ending the tour in the Antipodes, so it's a proper world tour, dontchaknow.

Here's the list of stops - do toddle by and leave a comment at the various blogs which are so kindly hosting me.

1st Sep Rachel Fenton
8th Sep Tania Hershman
15th Sep Colm Keegan
22nd Sep Sara Crowley
29th Sep Barbara Smyth

6th Oct Petina Gappah
13th Oct Dawn Rennert
20th Oct Johanna C. Leahy
27th Oct Vanessa Gebbie
3rd Nov Sylvia Petter