M J Mallon YA/Paranormal Author

MEDIA KIT: M J Mallon #YA #Fantasy #Paranormal #Horror #Writer #Poet

February 13, 2018 24 Comments

I am an author who has been blogging for many moons at my lovely blog home Kyrosmagica: https://mjmallon.com. My interests include writing, photography, poetry, and alternative therapies. I write Fantasy YA/Paranormal novels, Horror/Ghost Short stories and micro poetry – haiku and tanka. I love to read and have written over 100 reviews: https://mjmallon.com/2015/09/28/a-z-of-my-book-reviews/ My alter ego is MJ – Mary […]

Book Cover Reveal

Cover Reveal: The Curse of Time – Book 1 – Bloodstone

July 29, 2017 82 Comments

Today, I am delighted to share with you my cover reveal for my debut fantasy YA novel: The Curse of Time – Book 1 – Bloodstone I’m delighted with the cover – Wendy Anne Darling at BOOKXEEDO Book Covers has done a marvellous job. Isn’t the cover just beautiful? Thank you Wendy so much. Cover photography credit: Chronopage and grasshopper – John […]

Inspiration

Writer’s journey – How did it all happen?

April 27, 2014 269 Comments

Well how did I start writing? It was quite odd really. I used to write as a teenager. At the time I had a ginger tom cat called Chester, Mr. Popularity, everyone loved him. He liked to venture afar and we would often have to rescue him. I remember one occasion in particular, my brother and I ended up trudging […]

Flash

Flash Fiction: Carrot Ranch – Protest

7 hours ago 8 Comments

Confusion’s Blunt Knife ‘I didn’t do it,’ he howled. ‘Stop your protesting, we saw you!’ ‘It wasn’t me, it was them.’ ‘Excuses, excuses. Them don’t do that, only this does.’ Confusion handed the boy the knife. It was blunt. ‘Why you always blunt?’ he asked. ‘To see if you will sharpen your mind, you idiot!’ The boy looked lost. […]

Poetry

Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday #TankaTuesday #Poetry

2 days ago 11 Comments

This is my entry for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Eternal Love It’s tranquil today, November Rain, June Sunshine, Seasons talk of Love, Strolling side by side – Mists, gusts, Welly boots squelching the earth. Colleen's 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 160 #SynonymsOnly Buy Book: myBook.to/TheCurseofTime Unique Selling Point: Unique, Imaginative, ‘Charming, enchanting and richly layered this is purely delightful.’ […]

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Here is my interview with M J Mallon

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Originally posted on authorsinterviews:
Hello and welcome to my blog, Author Interviews. My name is Fiona Mcvie. Let’s get you introduced to everyone, shall we? Tell us your name. What is your age? Hi my name is Marje, author name M J Mallon. I’m a bit over the hill but just short of the rainbow, with two grown up daughters. Fiona: Where are you from? Ah, I was born in Singapore, grew up in Hong Kong, smuggled away to Bonnie Scotland, Edinburgh, and now living in Cambridge, England. Fiona: A little about your self (ie, your education, family life, etc.). I studied in Glasgow, the then polytechnic, gained a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies: Media, Marketing, PR. Didn’t do much with it… then, but it’s coming in quite handy now! I live in Cambridge with my husband who loves to play rock guitar. My two daughters are both creative, my eldest writes/ teaches English and my youngest is a keen photographer/fashion/business student. Fiona: Tell us your latest news. I’m releasing my first poetry/prose collection very soon. It is entitled: Mr Sagittarius, Poetry and Prose. Release date to be announced soon. I’m planning on donating the first month’s royalties to the Australian Bush fires. Fiona: When and why did you begin writing? I began writing about five years ago. I’d describe my initial style as: a writing butterfly flitting about trying different forms of writing – novels, short stories, picture…

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Book Review: Soul Swallowers

6 days ago 4 Comments

Originally posted on Let Me Tell You the Story of...:
Last year, I read one of D. Wallace Peach’s earlier works and ended up choosing it as my favorite indie book of the year. Excited by the prospect of truly enjoying an author’s work, I wanted to continue reading some of her repertoire and moved to one of her newest…

Flash

Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Challenge: January 9th #flashfiction

1 week ago 15 Comments

Here’s my piece of flash in response to Charli Mill’s flash fiction challenge: A Carried Jezebel Annie glanced at her scrawny husband. A glance was all it took. He couldn’t lift her, no carried wife could she ever be. No threshold over which she could be taken. Adam was different. His different scared her. She couldn’t help but imagine […]

Mr. Sagittarius Poetry and Prose

Cover Reveal : Mr Sagittarius – Poetry and Prose #Tanka #Tuesday #Poet’sChoice #Coverreveal #Poetry #Prose

1 week ago 27 Comments

First of all, a big thank you to Colleen for encouraging me to write poetry with her Tanka Tuesday prompts. Without this encouragement I doubt I would be producing a poetry/prose book. Also, if I hadn’t joined my current employ who offer free Botanical Gardens passes I doubt I would be either! A combination of influences and prompts: writing, […]

Book Review

Book Review: The Magisters by Jack Eason #Bookreview

1 week ago 4 Comments

Synopsis: The Magisters is a science fiction story with a difference. Apart from chronicling the ultimate change of life for a select few individuals, it questions all accepted ideas by closeminded academics that leave no room for alternative thinking by some among their number. It is about a woman born ten years after the Romans left Britannia forever and […]

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Donation to a Bushfire Appeal

2 weeks ago 3 Comments

Originally posted on Frank Prem Poetry:
I’ve thought hard about how I can provide some personal encouragement for folk to make donations. It seems to me that the best I can do is offer something that, perhaps, only I can do, which is record myself reading my own poems and making them available to anyone that makes a donation. With…

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The Australian Fires: Where You Can Donate

2 weeks ago 1 Comment

Originally posted on Suzie Speaks:
I’ve watched in horror over the last few weeks as the fires in Australia have ravaged the country. With 24 people and 500 MILLION animals dead, millions of hectares of land burned and more than 1400 homes destroyed, I’ve been reduced to tears as the pictures of the devastation have been shared across the news…

My writing

Happy New Year – 2020 News: #Writing #Sequel #Poetry #Prose

2 weeks ago 22 Comments

Happy New Year!!! After many moons I ‘m finally making progress on the second in my YA Fantasy series The Curse of Time Book 2 Golden Healer. It has been a long haul BUT I can begin to see encouraging flickers of light at the end of a very long, arduous tunnel. Writing a sequel is so hard! No, scratch […]