Jr Hughes

Countdown, Short Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A stained carpet, a boy's love of a cat, a dopey scientist, a treacherous river, these four new short stories from JR Hughes range from love to cats, from family life to death.
"Snow followed the atomic meltdown. Before that was the tsunami which came after the earthquake. And that was just Japan." Will this turn of events help an ex-Rose of Tralee win the heart of a slow but genius scientist?
"Everything must have contrived to get us to the river that night." A woman and her philosopher lover grapple with their move to a new country.
"The food was blue. Too blue. I said it out loud by mistake. Slap of a car, tore me down, left me for dead." A boy pays a high price to be cool.
"Dad tuts to himself - not, apparently, at the splotch, but at the untimely interference of the women." Some spilt Bordeaux makes an impression on New Year's Eve.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: JR Hughes
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310925689
• Artikelnr.: 47061094

Autorenporträt

I was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1973 to an artist mother and scientist father and currently live in a hut made of woven coconut palm leaves in India.
I have a BSc in Natural Sciences and during a successful eighteen-year career in communications I wrote and edited numerous articles for award-winning websites including Science.ie, PrimaryScience.ie and TinyBuddha.com. I have also worked in business and management and in 2007 helped set up renewable energy company, Cool Power Products, with which I worked for several years until it was sold in 2012.
Much of my writing inspiration comes from travel. I have spent time working and writing in Ireland, England, Spain, Germany, Australia, Hong Kong, Spain and India. In 2012 I spent three months in silence - and completely out of touch with the news and the outside world - in a lay-Buddhist retreat centre in Devon, an irreplaceable experience to have.
I have since finished my first and second novels, Southpaw and Hibernia, and am continuing to focus purely on writing - in particular completing my third novel and finding a publishing deal for all three. In the meantime, to help pay the bills, I do some proofreading and article writing and sell some artwork.
Like many women I seem to have permanently cold fingers and toes so in 2013 I left Ireland for the warmer shores of Ibiza, then India, where I can write without getting chilly. I now live in Goa in a one-roomed hut with one socket, two light bulbs, three cats and my graphic-designer husband.
When not squinting at manuscripts I can be found running, hiking, swimming, learning a few words of the local language, painting and turning bits of coconut palms into artworks that I can sell. I'm also trained in krav-maga, the hand-to-hand combat system used by the Navy Seals and Israeli Defence Force.