11/16/2023 0 Comments Fantastical thinkingThere I discovered that I could feel better, and it hit me that there must be others like me. With the celtic tiger roaring, a heliotropic urge to be amongst the twinkling foothills of Andalucia beckoned. Then a doctor warned me against more antibiotics – I had already had two episodes of anaphylaxis. Having established the first In-House graphic design department at Brown Thomas and ran it single-handedly for three years, the latent ‘gut health’ issues that seem to loom in my genes – alongside the writing – had made themselves known. I loved print, fonts, vector art, paper and of course colour. They say ‘believe, and you can,’ and then chance puts her hand in, and sparks fly.Įven though my career started in London in publishing, my future lay in design, or so I thought. There is an uplifting edge to the stories that inspire me. Similarly, the fiction that I write, and the fiction that I love is meticulously researched, but often reaches for demonstrations of the human spirit in heroic flight, characters driven to overcome their steepest challenges. It is the belief in magic that keeps one going when things seem impossible. If the story that follows – the one which led up to the birth of The Leopold Bloom Press sounds fairytale-esque – that is appropriate. But it has, because if there is one thing I have learned it is that there is always a silver lining in what seems like the nadir, a certain spark of light in the conflagration of original intent. Without the embers of that whirlwind endorsement still burning bright – a vote of confidence from a highly respected international press – this new publishing house called The Leopold Bloom Press on Grafton Street may never have emerged. Looking back with equanimity, it is likely that if my own original book deal offer had not been interrupted, I may not have taken the decision to move into publishing myself. When her husband died, Joan Didion wrote The Year of Magical Thinking. National Emerging Writer Programme Overview.
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