I received an interesting invitation this week, to enter one of my characters into a "challenge". Twelve authors (so far) will nominate a character from one of their novels to enter the challenge. The characters will face a series of tests and a winner will eventually be named. Your guess is as good as mine, but seemingly this is the third year of the challeng...
I'm current Chairman of the Irish Writers' Union and sit on the Board of Directors of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency. I teach creative writing with the ETB and I'm a Professional Mentor at the Irish Writers' Centre. In 2012 I was among the Irish authors who set a Guinness World Record for the number of continuous readings from their published books.
