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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Job Vacancy: Publishing Intern Wanted

Publishing Intern able to develop into a key Business Manager required

The Author's Friend, Ireland’s leading assisted publishing company has an opportunity for an entrepreneurial person to help develop a new publishing venture.

The new venture involves building an internet based publishing business selling book projects to pre-primary crèches and nurseries, primary and secondary schools and third level colleges.

No previous experience is necessary but a good command of English, good computer skills and a creative mind are essential. An interest in books and education would be advantageous.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter, well organised ambitious and hard working.

This is an opportunity to develop your own revenue stream and share in the growth of an exciting and adventurous business. It will suit someone with the confidence and ambition to generate their own success.

The Authors Friend is an equal opportunity company; this internship is open to everyone, employed or unemployed.

Interested applicants should contact The Author's Friend:

E-mail:
office@theauthorsfriend.ie

Telephone:
 01 8569566 or 087 7604547


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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Venture and Venus - a Jack Muldoon Story


Today is World Book Day and what better way for The Author's Friend to observe this prestigious event, than with the announcement of a new publication by an Irish author.

Venture and Venus by Michael McDonough follows the fortunes of one Jack Muldoon, a young Irish army officer whose travels through life invariably draw him towards excitement and danger. This latest installment of Jack's story begins in the Curragh of Kildare. He then works for a time as a piestenhelfer in the Austrian Tyrol; dipping his toe into film acting at Elstree Studios, London; before being dispatched to the Belgian Congo, to serve a dramatic military term with the United Nations.

Michael McDonough introduced us to the character of Jack Muldoon in his first book, Sheep, Shite and Soldiers, set at the Irish army base in The Curragh. For this book he also draws on his own experiences, as an army captain who served with a UN Peacekeeping force in The Congo during the Katanga secession crisis of the 1960s. 

He also draws on his passion for skiing. Michael has skied every year since 1950 and is an Honorary Life Member of the Irish Association of Ski Instructors. Michael says that he was motivated, in part, to write this book, because skiing seldom features in fiction or in literature.

His colleague, Ian McGarry, also a skier, and father of two of Ireland's contestants at the recent Winter Olympics has given his thumbs up to this book:

"McDonough creates an exciting, but accurate account of skiing in the 50s in St Anton Am Arlberg and links the ski story expertly to life with the United Nations in the ex Belgian Congo."
Ex-Irish Army Officer and fellow Congo veteran Enda Ryan concurs: "I was transported back to the Congo by this compelling recreation of a historic and exciting time in our young lives."

Venture and Venus is available to buy from the Online Catalogue of The Author's Friend, price €17 plus P&P.

It will also be available in bookshops. Michael himself will be appearing at book signings, at locations around the country in the coming months. Details of venues, times etc will be posted on The Author's Friend News Blog as and when they become available.

Watch this space!

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