About me
Hi, I’m Niamh, Niamh Shaw, nice to meet you. You have a fabulous smile - great teeth. So, tell me all about yourself. Me? - thought you’d never ask. Well, I am made in Ireland and have never come across a potato I didn’t love. I can be unbelievably childish and am fond of swearing. There is little photographic evidence of my existence. Musically I am stuck in an eighties time-warp.
My physiology is ideally suited to a diet of chocolate and coffee. For this reason, I do a lot of exercise: swimming, cycling, mountain walking. Unfortunately however, I am not as bendy as I should be.
My dirty secret: when he was in Knight Rider I nearly had a crush on David Hasselhof.
Ten years ago I met my husband in Dubai (although he wasn’t my husband then). We relocated to New Zealand in January 2008. I currently live up a tree with no tv, fulfilling the dream as a fully-medically-insured-hippy: hairy frocks, organic shampoo, the works. When I’m not composting and/or threatening my inner child with the more menacing chakras, I wrestle immigration officials, bake whole-wheat scones, tend the open fire and cycle 20km for a pint of milk. Oh, and I also write.
In June 2006, I gave up a lucrative career in Telecomms - well, it kept me fed and watered - to write full-time. I completed my first novel, Smart/Casual, in January 2007. It is best described as a supernatural romantic thriller murder mystery without the corpses - or schizophrenic, if you prefer.
Olivia Anderson is not so much fishing off the company pier as swimming – and she has spotted a shark. After she starts dating her manager, Liv discovers he is sabotaging her client and framing her for it. She has only days in which to save her client’s business, ditch her no-good embezzling boyfriend slash manager, and frame him right back
Last January, I attracted an agent www.theampersandagency.co.uk with relatively little fawning, bribery or pleading. (Well, you know, just a socially acceptable amount.) I crossed my fingers, which rather impeded progress on my second novel. After nine months on the publisher carousel, Little Black Dress Books offered me a publishing deal.
After my mailing list exploded, I thought it a good idea to set up deadlyjelly. I update the blog daily except Friday/Saturday and when I am too busy examining my navel
7 May, 2008 at 10:02 am
This is my first venture into the world of blog. I have of course heard of blogs, bloggers and blogging, but was never quite sure what it exactly referred to. I never quite got round to raising the subject at dinner parties, mainly because I need afew drinks to speak to strangers ( the only category of invitees who accept) and by the time I am ready to contribute either I or others are pissed and beyond anything more compliacted than discussions on the height of burj burp dubai.
I will admit I am rather excited! Its like having a bit part in the matrix ( I just popped a jelly bean for affect, quite appropriate I thought!)
I have to reenter the ‘real ‘ world now. Please confirm a) I have managed to save and send this message b) Other more technically savvy bloggers have no access to this and are not having a right laff at my expense c) Blogging has notthing to do with gay,lesbian or protestant social networking.
7 May, 2008 at 10:45 am
Well done! Although technically, your comment is more of an extended self discussion.
a) Congratulations! You managed to save this message. You win a moonbeam (subject to availability and atmospheric conditions)
b) The entire world can see your comment and comment on your comment, should they so choose. However, you may have noticed that not many people have commented so far, so your comment is probably safe from comment, although not savvy
c) Blogging has everything to do with all those things. You’re a brave and liberated man