Monday, April 7th at 7pm in T1.16.
Roisin Meany: From Blackboard to Bestseller
Abstract:
In my lecture From Blackboard to Bestseller I’ll chart my rather scenic route
into the world of fiction writing, an occupation that had never featured in my
career plans when I was growing up. I’ll outline the various serendipitous
stepping stones that led me out of the classroom and brought me to where I am
today. I’ll also share the glitches that tripped me up from time to time, the
things I have learned about the world of publishing and my hopes for the future.
Brief Biography:
In August 1977, just before beginning her
three years in MICE, Roisin Meaney wrote seven words and won a car. Twenty-four
years and one teaching career later she wrote eighty thousand words and won a
book deal. In 2008 she put her red pen out to pasture and left the classroom to
become a fulltime writer. Today she’s the author of nine (soon to be ten)
published novels, four of which have ended up in the top five of the Irish
fiction charts, one (The Last Week of May)
going all the way to the top and another (The
People Next Door) making it as far as number two (Anne Enright was hogging
the top slot at the time with The
Gathering). Two of Roisin’s books have been published in the US, and she
has been translated into Danish, German and Italian. She’s been described as
the new Maeve Binchy and the Irish Joanna Trollope. On the first Saturday of
each month she tells stories to toddlers and
their teddies in the library at The Granary. She is a fan of cats, chocolate
and random acts of kindness.
Twitter: @roisinmeaney
Facebook: Roisin Meaney
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