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Hi. It’s Martina Reilly here, the artist formally known as Tina Reilly! And before that, I was teen writer, Martina Murphy. Thanks for logging on and welcome to my website.
What I hope this site will do is to make you familiar with my books, my plays and my journalism. Links are provided so that, just in case you fall MADLY in love with any of my first chapters and you just HAVE to get your hands on my books, you can. Both my adult novels and my teen novels are available.
There are also pages showing my journalistic musings. I spent about a year working as a columnist for the Evening Herald and I now write sporadically for the Irish Independent weekend magazine. Basically, I write about ordinary life in a quirky way. (Well, I’ve been told it’s quirky – unfortunately for me, it’s my normal view!!) I hope to change the pieces on display regularly and one day, when I’m madly rich and famous, to bring out my ‘Surviving this Life’ Bible.
I’m also a drama teacher, so I’ve written (on the drama page) all about the classes I run in Maynooth with my sisters Aoife and Claire. A list of our prize- winning plays is also on the site. To date we have sold a number of scripts to other drama teachers so any publishers, please GET IN TOUCH NOW!!
Anyway, a little bit about myself – I’m thirty-eight, married and live in Kildare. I have two kids – a boy and a girl - and one cat. I come from a family of six and all of us have been involved in drama, acting and writing at various levels throughout our lives. As well as being a writer, I’m also a qualified Drama teacher with the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
Acting wise, I have taken lead roles in The Plough and the Stars, I do not Like Thee Dr Fell, Sive, Bar and Ger, The Wizard of Oz (playing the Wicked Witch as I can’t sing!). I have also done the One Act festivals around the country and have won Best Actress.
As well as the novels, I write plays, two of which have been done by professional drama groups – The Journey, a ten minute short was produced as part of the Fishamble Shorts season in 2003 (see drama) and Dirt Tracks, based on my teen novel of the same name was done by Barnstorm as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2004.
Coming next is a novel, with Sphere, entitled The Summer Of Secrets. This will be out in October 2007. I do hope that if you buy it that you will enjoy it!
Thanks again for logging on and enjoy . . .
If you do wish to contact me, my e-mail address is tina@tinareilly.info