'Self publishing will not make you a fortune,' new book published by Tipperary author
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'Dish Town' is now available to purchase on Amazon in both Kindle and Paperback
Congratulation to Tipp Town author, Anne Crosse, who has announced that her latest book 'Dish Town' is now available to purchase on Amazon in both Kindle and Paperback.
The book is set in a small Irish town where everyone knows everybody's business, and if they don't, they make it up. Likeable and unlikeable characters, live with secrets and desires, but it will take the threat to the trees on the square, for them to put aside their differences.
Anne's interest in writing materialised at the age of ten while growing up in Tipperary Town.
"I am sure I must have been considered a weird child with my fascination of buildings, and what made people tick. I was the local cinema's number one fan, attending three matinees a week, my imagination running wild as I lapped up the unfolding dramas of the big screen. It was around this time that I wrote my first play" says Anne.
Taking the boat to England, Anne got a job copy typing in Fleet Street for the Daily Mirror. She went to night school and got degrees in Art and English and even got a Teachers Diploma in IT some years ago.
Somewhere along the line her writing went on the back burner, and it wasn't until 1996 while living back home in Tipperary that she founded the Phoenix Theatre Group.
The purpose of the group was to train unemployed people in all the aspects of theatre work from painting sets, props, costumes and acting. During this time she had two plays broadcast by the RTE Radio Drama series; 'A Season in Farmleigh' and 'Looks like James Dean'.
While attending Edgeworthstown Literary Festival she got in contact with a group of writers from Banbridge Co. Down and they quickly became friends.
With the help of Co-Operation North the Banbridge group came down to Tipperary and performed a drama during their Phoenix Theatre Literary Festival. Irish author and actress Deirdre Purcell, kindly participated as a guest speaker and the local council arranged a Civic Reception for the visitors.
In turn the Tipperary group were invited up to Banbridge where they also received a Civic Reception. When a job came up in Clonmel teaching Art to those with enduring mental health issues, she took on the post and spent thirteen years in that post. After retirement Anne started to write again and wrote two book.
The first book, 'Murder in a Sleepy Town' is a sort of a midsummer murder story, while the second one 'Home is Here' is about characters living in a small town spanning in age group from the fifties to the eighties, with most of the inhabitants harbouring their dark secrets and family heartbreaks. Both of those book were self published.
"Self publishing will not make you a fortune, in fact it will not make you anything much at all but it will bring enjoyment to whoever reads it. The good thing about print on demand is that you don't have to buy hundreds of books; you can buy a few copies at a time to sell in the local bookshop or other small outlets.
"Seeing my book in print has been a good learning experience for me. It is far easier when reading your published book to see the chinks, and things that need changing, then you can revise by uploading again, until you are satisfied with the final copy", says Anne.
She is into the concept of setting her novels in small towns, possibly because she lives in one, and all the memories of the old buildings, establishments and people that impressed her so much as a child, are still very much alive in her head and have staring roles in her books.
Our congratulations to Anne on her new book 'Dish Town', which is definitely worth reading, and is available on Amazon at the following link; https://www.amazon.ca/Dish-Town-Anne-Crosse-ebook/dp/B0DCP7FGGB