Can't Believe those trainspotter losers!!!

What's the deal with those trainspotter losers. I counted 27 of them today..!

Played some trad ballads with my trad friends this week. It was the "Trad for Trocaire" week. The event raised a few euro for the charity. A nice night out.

Brick Lane is where I'm at.....

Need to waltz up and down Brick Lane in London a couple of times...... Need to take in the athmosphere and the sights/sites......need to do some research for my new book.....the book that I haven't got past chapter one with yet.......need some background info...some stuff..some colour.......this thursday lunch time.....man with camera and notebook...that'll be me alright......

New Book - Chapter One !

i was on facebook the other day and innocently answered a question from one of my friends about whether or not i had started to write my 4th book yet....i replied with a quick "yes" and thought no more of it. in reality, the only part of my new 4th book i had written so far are the words "Chapter One". So - technically - i answered the question correctly - not that i was trying to be economical with the truth or anything, you understand.
since then, i have had 51 messages from some of my other friends wanting to know more information - title, publishing date etc etc.
the interest has spurred me on in the last few weeks and i've applied myself to my task and have the first five chapters of the book completed - which is way further down the line than i thought i would be.
thank you to to all my facebook friends for the kick up the backside!!!

I write books, me.

I’ve written three books of contemporary fiction in the last three years and each one, I hope, is simple in style and clear in direction. This is my style. This is the way I write. It’s down my alley, right up my street and bang down the avenue of things I like. Things like Trigger Bars, Talking Heads, cheesecake, Colin Bateman mystery books, trifle – uncomplicated-you-get-what-it-says-on-the tin stuff.I like reading books and writing books that both I and millions like me can understand without having to memorise a cast of thousands, without having to look up the dictionary for unpronounceable four syllable words (John Banville – I love your books but why so many obtuse and obscure words???), without having to read through pages of the traumatised lives of pauper-like creatures that are barely human, who live in the lashings of rain in Limerick (I tell you no word of a lie – Angela’s Ashes sucked the life out of me!!).

Give me a happy book, a book with sunshine, a book with some humour in it, a book with a happy ending. It doesn’t have to be “Little House on the Prairie” happy – just some smidgeon of happiness. Something to make you smile, something to brighten your day. Something pink, something with caffeine in it, something written on paper that makes you take your mind off the daily routine.
I’m currently publicising my latest book, “My Little Lighthouse”. It’s a self-published book – as are my previous two books. Not everyone is lucky enough to hook up with a publisher or an agent – in Ireland the number is down to about half a dozen of each species. You probably stand more chance of replacing Wayne Rooney on the Manchester United team, or winning the Euromillions or scoring the presenter’s job on the Late Late Show. But it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. It also doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go the self-publishing route. If it was okay for Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling and Roddy Doyle then - it’s alright by me.
“My Little Lighthouse” is about a man who gets struck by lightening (ouch!) and as a result looses his memory. He runs his software company nearly single-handedly and the company will go down the tubes if he doesn’t regain his memory. Will his wife – the only person he recognises - and his two grown-up kids be able to save him, his company and their family life?
Don’t worry – it’s not doom and gloom. Don’t worry – there aren’t any four syllable words to look up. Don’t worry – it doesn’t rain once after the first chapter! Happy ending??? Now that would be telling now, wouldn’t it. . .?Anyone who would like to buy a copy from my website will be helping Crumlin Children’s Hospital. All website sales up to the end of this year go directly to the hospital charity. Visit me at www.petermccluskey.com

Replacing Wayne Rooney in publishing terms

I’m currently publicising my latest book, “My Little Lighthouse”. It’s a self-published book – as are my previous two books. Not everyone is lucky enough to hook up with a publisher or an agent – in Ireland the number is down to about half a dozen of each species. You probably stand more chance of replacing Wayne Rooney on the Manchester United team, or winning the Euromillions or scoring the presenter’s job on the Late Late Show. But it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. It also doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go the self-publishing route. If it was okay for Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling and Roddy Doyle then - it’s alright by me.

pink tea and paper makes my day

delighted to have a guest post today on ellen brickley's blog www.ellenbrickley.blogspot.com (pink tea and paper). very nice of her to accept my piece. i've been reading her blogs for a short while now and must say they are enjoyable and a positive read. like all good writers, she has that persistance and determnation to get to the finish line, the ability to stick to the task. another fellow writer who has that stick-at-it-ness quality is mick rooney (www.mickrooney.net ). i was delighted to assist mick with the launch of his ninth book recently, "the memory of trees" which is published by book republic.
don't forget to visit ellen at pink tea and paper......