Creative Writing Course

I'm teaching a four-day creative writing course in popular fiction in the south of Spain from October 1-5.
The venue and setting look unforgettable. Apparently you can smell the spices blowing across from Morocco, it's so close.  The workshops are being held in a farmhouse called Fawlty Fincas - set in the hills just outside an old fishing town in the Costa de la Luz called Tarifa, which is a windsurfer's paradise. There'll be time to explore, but hopefully we can also settle down to some writing. I'm looking forward to it. Here's the link for my workshop in the 2008 series for In The Write Light.  http://www.inthewritelight.com/en/weekend4.html
There are lots of other workshops and dates to choose from, check them out at www.inthewritelight.com   


Ship of Dreams

Ship of Dreams

April 1912 - Disaster Strikes.

Ship of Dreams by Martina Devlin is a gripping read inspired by the turn of events following one of the world’s most horrific tragedies, the sinking of the Titanic.
A small group of survivors meet on one of the Titanic's lifeboats, saved from death by random chance. Drawn from different nationalities and walks of life, they have only one factor in common: all have survived a tragedy that captures the world’s imagination.
This thread binds them together when they are rescued and taken to New York. Nancy Armstrong, 18 years old, pregnant and newly widowed, can she maintain her status in New York society without her husband’s connections and wealth? Bridie Ryan, penniless but determined: can the American dream come true for her? And Hannah O’Brien, also pregnant, can she build a life for herself and her American child to be?
Then there is Louis Stubel, the French gentleman’s secretary with ambitions to better himself; US Cavalry officer Major Richmnd Hudson, convinced his dead wife intervened to rescue him; and English teacher Edmund Newton who was plucked from the sea by the Irish girls.
From the factory floor to film premieres, from tenements to townhouses and from impoverished rural Ireland to the upper echelons of New York society; all who survive the Titanic are buoyed together, struggling to keep their dreams afloat. They cheated death - and life would never be the same.

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