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Nuala Ní Chonchúir: The Nude Not Naked Tour

Nuala Ní Chonchúir: Nude

Nuala Ní Chonchúir: The Nude Not Naked Tour

The Nude Not Naked Tour

The Nude Not Naked Tour



The women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs and mistakes that cannot be undone. And at the centre of it all is the unclothed body: in bedrooms, in art, and in and out of love.

Award-winning writer Nuala Ní Chonchúir uses her trademark sensual frankness, coupled with poetic language, to weave an intoxicating spell in these stories. If fictional worlds pivot on yearning, then the characters in these stories yearn for passion, for understanding and, sometimes, for freedom.

Stops Tour Date Blog

1 1 September 2009 Snow Like Thought
2 8 September 2009 TaniaWrites
3 15 September 2009 Uiscebots Blog
4 22 September 2009 A Salted
5 29 September 2009 Barbara’s bleeuugh!
6 6 October 2009 PetinaGappah
7 13 October 2009 She Is Too Fond Of Books …
8 20 October 2009 Irish Nomad in Norway
9 27 October 2009 Vanessa Gebbie’s news
10 3 November 2009 Merc’s World – writing and ruminations

Andrew Philip’s The Ambulance Box Tour

Andrew Philip: The Ambulance Box

Andrew Philip: The Ambulance Box Tour

The Ambulance Box Tour

The Ambulance Box Tour



Stops Tour Date Blog

1 10 June 2009 Our sweet old etcetera
2 17 June 2009 The Crafty Writer
3 23 June 2009 One Night Stanzas
4 26 June 2009 Douglas Robertson
5 29 June 2009 Dumbfoundry
6 2 July 2009 Boxologies
7 8 July 2009 Robert Peake
8 15 July 2009 Cadwallender
9 22 July 2009 Poetry Hut
10 29 July 2009 Andrew Shields

Ivy Alvarez: author of the Dumbfoundry Blog

Ivy Alvarez

Ivy Alvarez


dumbfoundry : Poetry news, poetry blogs, poetry magazines, poetry journals, poetry sites, poetry links, etc. Ivy Alvarez (author of Mortal) is one of the original dumbfounders.

Ivy covers Rob A. Mackenzie and Andrew Philiip in upcoming blogs.

Rob A. Mackenzie: De-Cabbage Yourself! Tour

Rob A. Mackenzie: The Opposite of Cabbage

Rob A. Mackenzie: The Opposite of Cabbage

The De-Cabbage Yourself Tour

The De-Cabbage Yourself Tour



Throughout this collection, opposites collide — reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. Messiahs parachute themselves to disused northern fairgrounds, a woman diets until practically invisible, trained apes teach a colony of drunks how to dance, a bingo night fuels familial despair and love, and an airborne cabbage blasts a cyclist into orbit. With precision of language and a colourful, anarchic spirit, Mackenzie’s poems focus on their subjects with humanity and hard-won compassion. They have a light touch, but are never trivial. They are for readers who trust that questions are rarely simple and answers never final. Ironic and humorous, complex and engaging, you can’t do without The Opposite of Cabbage.

Megan Taylor Blog Stories

Megan Taylor

Megan Taylor

Megan Taylor Blog Stories

Megan’s blog features random ramblings about writing and publishing, along with some of her own short stories and the odd interactive blog story too. You can also find it on LiveJournal and MySpace.

Megan is an author, currently living in Nottingham. Her debut How We Were Lost was published by Flame Books in 2007 and she has recently completed her second novel, Before the Light.

To find out more about her writing, please visit her website www.megantaylor.info


Shaindel Beers: “On the hood of a Cutlass Supreme” Tour

Shaindel Beers: A Brief History of Time

Shaindel Beers: A Brief History of Time


On the hood of a Cutlass Supreme Tour

On the hood of a Cutlass Supreme Tour



A Brief History of Time, Beers’ first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide range of styles—from plainsong free verse to sestinas to nearly epic works.

The characters/speakers in Beers’ poems range from the rural working class to mythological characters. These poems look at the world with an honest, unflinching eye. She is one of the up-and-coming poets from Generation X we will be hearing a great deal from in the future.


Stops Tour Date Blog

1 4 March 2009 Peony Moon
2 11 March 2009 Julius Speaks
3 1 April 2009 Michael Kimball Writes Your Life Story (on a postcard)
4 8 April 2009 Blogalicious
5 15 April 2009 Gravity and Light
6 22 April 2009 Vince Gotera — The Man with the Blue Guitar
7 29 April 2009 What to Wear During an Orange Alert
8 6 May 2009 Blue Moon Northeast
9 13 May 2009 The Tao, Ow and Wow of Jesus Crisis
10 20 May 2009 Holy Land
11 3 June 2009 Being and Writing

Sarah Salway’s Writing Journal

Sarah Salway

Sarah Salway

Sarah is a novelist, short story writer and creative writing tutor. Author of Something Beginning With (ABCs of Love in the US), Tell Me Everything (both published by Bloomsbury in the UK and Ballantine in the US) and a collection of short stories, Leading the Dance (bluechrome). She also is the co-author, with Lynne Rees, of the experimental short fiction book, Messages, which led to the Your Messages November writing project — www.yourmessages.org. Sarah has two blogs, Sarah’s Writing Journal and A Quiet Sit Down. Her website is here — www.sarahsalway.com and Sarah is also editor-at-large for http://carrieanddanielle.com. Sarah will be taking part in Elizabeth Baines’ book tour Around the Edges of the World.


   

Caroline Smailes’ “In Search of Adam” Blog

Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes is a writer. In 2007 her first novel, In Search of Adam, was published by The Friday Project (an imprint of HarperCollins). Her latest novel, Black Boxes was published in September 2008. As well as writing, Caroline runs the BubbleCow Literary Consultancy, where she mentors new writers and edits manuscripts.

Caroline’s website can be found HERE and her blog can be found HERE. Caroline was one of the first fiction writers to be discovered by a cyber scout. Her blogging tends to be about books, about writing and often about Simon Cowell. Caroline joins Cyclone for Elizabeth Baines’ “Around the Edges of the World” Tour.

 

Elizabeth Baines: “Around the Edges of the World” Tour

Elizabeth Baines: Balancing on the Edge of the World

Elizabeth Baines: Balancing on the Edge of the World


Around the Edges of the World

Around the Edges of the World



These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it. A small boy struggles with his parents’ divorce, a doctor fails to understand the limits of his medical power, a wronged wife finds a uniquely powerful way to wreak revenge. Sometimes satirical, sometimes innovative and lyrical, the stories home in on those moments when power can spill into powerlessness: the split-second when a self-satisfied teenager is held at knifepoint by muggers, the trip to the woods with the ‘poor kids’ which teaches a small girl she’s no better than them. They chart the opposite moments when people wrest back power: a daughter rebels against her violent father, a struggling writer decides to expose a con man arts worker, a little girl who wishes her lost father would come back finds she has magic powers.

But it’s a slippery thing, power, and these vivid, wry stories spring surprises: for nothing, in the end, is ever quite what it seems.

Stops Tour Date Blog

1 14 January 2009 Barbara’s Bleeuugh
2 21 January 2009 Me and My Big Mouth
3 28 January 2009 Keeper of the Snails
4 4 February 2009 Caroline Smailes
5 11 February 2009 Sarah’s Writing Journal
6 18 February 2009 Vanessa Gebbie’s News
7 25 February 2009 Dovegreyreader Scribbles
8 4 March 2009 Charles Lambert
9 11 March 2009 Debi Alper
10 18 March 2009 TaniaWrites
 

Drew Gummerson’s Blog

Drew Gummerson

Drew Gummerson

Drew Gummerson is a writer. In 2002 his first novel, The Lodger, was published and was a finalist in the Lambda Awards. His latest novel, Me and Mickie James was published by Jonathan Cape in July 2008. He works for the police.

Drew Gummerson writes a weekly blog about writing and anything else that takes his fancy. He joins Cyclone with his take on Catherine Eisner’s new novel, Sister Morphine.

You can visit Drew’s website here.


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