Strictly Writing: Gillian McDade

Gillian McDade is a newspaper journalist and author from Co Antrim, Northern Ireland. Her interest in literature began at an early age when she started reading The Famous Five and Secret Seven.

She wrote her first book at the age of 11, a Nancy Drew mystery, believing that the existing series ‘wasn’t quite good enough’.

Aside from writing, Gillian is a vegetarian who gets excited about unusual sandwich fillings and pizza toppings, especially those of Middle Eastern origin. She once hid a cocktail stick inside a vase in the drawing room of an official government residence. Gillian’s first novel, Standing Man, will be published by History Press Ireland.

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Welcome to our blog. We are a varied group of writers - published and aspiring; poets, short-story creators and novelists - with one thing in common: an enduring love for the craft of writing. A love which requires great resilience in the face of recurrent self-doubt, writer's block and rejection. In the face of the obsessive checking of emails, inch high dust and burnt dinners. In the face of a gamut of RSI injuries and writer's bottom. But a love which repays itself ten times over with those sparkling seconds of elation when finally, the right prose unfolds, like a quick-footed jive or seamless Cha Cha Cha. That's when we trust once again the voice in our heads that orders... "Keeeeep writing!"

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