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Maevesleibhin

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I am 43, slightly overweight, with a decided tendency to think about things rather than doing them, as evidenced by the state of my garden, my house, and my kitchen (did I mention weight?). Have several preadolescent children (panic! panic!), no pets, and a devoted but absentminded spouse.
I actually lived in Scotland - those are literal transcriptions, dammit! If the Scots is hard to understand, it's because THE SCOTS ARE HARD TO UNDERSTAND!



OMG! (please envision me bouncing ecstatically around my cluttered living room at the excitement of having made the ED. The ED!!!!)

A huge thanks to all you lovely people who had the rash temerity to back an old lady and a goat. (And some gold, I think, somewhere in there.) Regardless - I return all reads. Just, it must be said, sometimes quite slowly. If I take too long, please bleat. To the squeaky wheel goes the grease, as they say. Just - I said this before, didn't I? - somewhat slowly.

If you want to follow my progress (what's wrong with you?!) you can do so at the following thread:
http://www.authonomy.com/forums/threads/98783/mrs-maginnes-is-doing-quite-well-in-spite-of-being-dead/
Please let me know if I owe you a return and have forgotten to put your book on the list.

I can be contacted at maevesleibhin at yahoo dot com, but I prefer to be messaged on the site when possible.


Sláinte!

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I have a deep and abiding fondness for florid middle aged 18th century English writers like Edward Gibbon and Lawrence Sterne, but I spend most of my time reading pulp fiction because - let's admit it - pulp fiction is really much more fun.

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Fresh Meat

Maeve Sleibhin

Paranormal fiction in the tropics - busting out with vampires, demons and succubi. Seems impressive, I’m sure. Until you see the mosquitoes.


Lola - tiny, twenty two, excessively tattooed - moves to live in Puerto Rico with her best friend, Jeremy, after having been thrown out of women’s professional soccer for excessive violence. Her paradisiac idyll is tragically cut short when she discovers that Jeremy appears to have taken up with his boss - Lucia, a supermodel with a medical degree and an annoying penchant for very short skirts, very high heels, and ornate mid-seventeenth century bejeweled crucifixes. Lola moves out and gets a job at Walgreens, only to discover - the hard way - that the reason Lucia likes crucifixes so much is that she’s a slayer, and that they’re all caught in a war between the vampires and something else - something much more dangerous, who appears to have developed a sudden and very hazardous interest in Lola.

 

Mrs. Maginnes is Dead

Maeve Sleibhin

Stolen ancient Byzantine coins - a goat, a dead landlady, and maurading Englishwomen. What else can go wrong? In Edinburgh - plenty.


Mrs. Maginnes is murdered - thrown off a cliff near Edinburgh.
She leaves behind a million pounds' worth of hidden Byzantine gold, a rampaging goat, and a student tenant just arrived from Portugal.
Socorro, the bewildered tenant, finds refuge with the five, recently goat-bequeathed Aspenall sisters. They, and an overwhelmingly large number of their neighbours, set out to find the gold, encountering along the way a plethora of irate neigbours, a Valorous detective, Queen Nimnu Ninsikilla, Pouty, Cheeks, a false passport ring, communist militants, a gypsy fortune teller, Shakespeare (in reference), true love, and a purple and pink plaid couch.

 

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Alastair Miles wrote 2 hours ago

No problem, I had a lot of fun with the book. Regards, Alastair

Miss Wells wrote 6 hours ago

Thanks Maeve. I think the characters are chiselled down to the presen....

writingwildly wrote 4 days ago

Thanks, Maeve!

Ian Oliver-Jones wrote 5 days ago

Dear Maeve Thank you so much for your comment, I found most of what ....

Alastair Miles wrote 6 days ago

One small favour I can do you. I've found a typo, the fact the text ....

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I wrote 5 days ago

Ian, I read everything you posted. This is a very traditional, old fashioned vampire story. You have an ancient monster caught in the infernal struggle between his condition and his morals, and a practical detective trying to save people's lives. Throw in a few victims with various degrees of i... view book

I wrote 7 days ago

Alastair, I read the first 30 chapters, about halfway through the book. This is a very entertaining concept, a jovial look at reincarnation mixed in with a bit of a mystery story. Parts of it are laugh out loud funny, and you manage to be entertaining through most of it. That having been said, I... view book

I wrote 13 days ago

Russell, CLOG review (mini). I read everything you posted and truly enjoyed it. I am a bit short for time, so this comment will be brief (hence the mini). This is a thoroughly entertaining old school spy thriller. It has great, laid back pacing and intrigue which just keep the pages turning (r... view book

I wrote 15 days ago

Accidents will happen CLOG review Hayley, I read the first two chapters. I must say that this is not for me. I came looking for comedy, and the first two chapters failed to hook me, at least in that way. In fact, chapter 1 and chapter 2 seem to have very little to do with each other, so that by... view book

I wrote 15 days ago

Lauren, I reread the first chapter. I think it is a lot better. I will say, though, that I have a bit I an issue with this clairvoyant scene. I have a hard time placing it, but I think that it has to do with the the uncanny factor. The fact that the magic is presented nonchalantly in the first ch... view book

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