I’ve been disabled for almost twenty years now, ever since a long fall military diving training messed up my nervous system (and immune system along with it). For the last couple of months I’ve been constantly ill. If the kids cough, I spend three days throwing up. Worst still, these maladies are overlapping, eroding my underlying health and aggravating my disability.
While all this is going on, my wife is striving against incredible pressure from work (she’s amazing), the kids are dealing with all the changes that happen when you’re 2, 4 and 6, and you need you parents close by, and I am trying to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime by writing a book specifically requested by a client (alongside a sci-fi novel, a research project and trying to keep my radio production company alive.)
Not to put to fine a point on it, and with all the damage to my enormous masculine pride admitting it entails, I’m not coping. So what should I do? What should any of us do, fighting to manage our lives while the world goes crazy around us?
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Dannie Cohan is a determined, career driven lawyer, in a relationship with a supportive, career driven man and clear, purposeful five-year plan. Her best friend Bella couldn’t be more different – flighty, prone to fall in love at the drop of a hat, and desperate that Dannie find more romance in her life.
And… that’s all I’m going to say about what happens. Seriously, try not to read the blurb. The less you know about this book going in, the better. You’re in for some glorious surprises.
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The event was held (thanks to the extraordinary Stephanie Campion of Moving Parts, who organised a zoom reading of the plays), the votes were cast, and the winner of this years Little Wonder Radio Play Competition is Denise Deegan with “The Last PTA Meeting.”
The Last PTA Meeting was a wonderful, warm, funny play with cracking dialogue and a lot to say about family and parenting. It was a delight to see the play grow and develop through the course of the competition, and it is a well deserved winner.
Warmest congratulations are also due to our other finalists, Amber Elen-Forbat, Mark Blayney, Paul Stone, and Declan Kennedy, who helped ensure an excellent evenings entertainment with imaginative, inventive and diverse plays that would have been worthy competition winners themselves. Thank you everyone.
Now that congratulations have been showered, the rest of this article is an interview with our winner Denise Deegan, so you can learn more about her, her writing, and how she celebrated winning the 2020 Little Wonder Radio Play Competition. Enjoy and read on!
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Freya has a problem. She is a perfectly designed concubine robot, designed not only to pleasure human beings but to take enjoy their pleasure. Unfortunately, the last of humans died out 200 years ago, 60 years before she was unboxed. Now she lives in a dystopic interplanetary society built by robots who were designed to be slaves and in which she has no place. Yet Freya’s place in things may turn out to be much greater than it seems.
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“ZOEY CALLAWAY is an introverted Information Professional, content with her cramped apartment above her mother’s garage. She’s a simple person with a simple life until murder shatters her small town of Hope Harbor, Michigan.
When Zoey’s uncle is found dead in his bathtub, police think it’s an accidental overdose, but circumstances tell Zoey a different story. After inheriting her deceased uncle’s home and black kitten, she moves in and catalogues his belongings, inadvertently piecing together clues to solve a crime her uncle had stumbled upon before his death. With a stalker following her every move, Zoey calls upon all her investigative skills to identify the killer before she becomes the next victim.”
I am reviewing “Bad Karma” as part of the Love Book Tours blog tour. A Book Blog tour is the virtual equivalent of a traditional bookshop book tour: during the course of the tour, different blogs will review/provide excerpts/offer author interviews about the book. If you want to follow along the list of blogs on the tour I have posted it at the bottom, and I received a free e-copy of the book in return for the review.
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