As humans we will always listen to stories, read stories and write stories. My novels Writer, Screen and Sacred Heart, Bone and Blood and Michel-Michelle connect on themes relevant to me as a writer explored under Gender A-Z, Ulster and in Blog. Exchanging stories provides fuel for connection through our imagination, empathy and intuition.
Writer, Screen and Sacred Heart
In Writer, Screen and Sacred Heart, Gunther, a reclusive writer contracts a social-media savvy Daphne to pose as the writer of his novels featuring Consuelo, an investigator of femicide. Gunther has existed for years on the west coast of Ireland, surfing and living with the ghosts of the past. Daphne’s success in marketing leads to a new contract that would use AI to stream his novels. An experimental high-tech Screen replaces the Sacred Heart icon. Screen offers information on his lost lover, Fiona and holograms of the past and present.
Writer, Screen and Sacred Heart published August 2026 in German and English as an e-book. Buy e-book here
In my second novel Michel-Michelle, potential fatherhood brings back Axel’s memories of his life with his “three mothers” – his transgender “father”, his birth mother and her lesbian partner. Challenged by his wife Sophie, he reflects on his father’s transition from male to female and his own transition from child to adult parent.
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Gender A-Z
The 26 letters of the Gender A-Z is my commentary on my 70 years of struggle with gender. How can we increase awareness of diversity in ourselves, our friends and our families?
Read more on Gender A-Z here
Manipulation of diversity to create right-wing populist movements motivates me to explore US versus THEM. My first novel, Bone and Blood, published 2014 was inspired by a visit to a Ravensbrück concentration camp where some Irish women had been imprisoned. The novel is set in Berlin in 2005 when Aisling arrives from Dublin and extracts her great-aunt Brigitte’s story of her time in Nazi Germany. As they wait for the funeral of Brigitte’s lesbian daughter, Aisling learns as much about herself as about the past.
All Different: All Equal
My non-binary, Ulster identity has been formed by the 1960’s civil rights in Ulster, in the 1970’s women’s and gay rights, in the 1980’s Travellers Rights and Children’s Rights. In the 1990’s, I wrote up a European campaign All Different: All Equal for the Council of Europe.
All Different: All Equal E-book here
Ulster
Brexit provoked a series of blogs on my life on the Ulster Border including connection to lother Ulster writers.