Hi and welcome to this episode of my podcast, today I was delighted to be joined by another excellent Author Tom Fitzgerald, big thanks to him for coming on and thanks as alway to all my listeners and people watching on YouTube. Here is some information about Tom.
Im from Askeaton in Co Limerick and I’ve always wanted to be a published writer but never had the time to pursue my dream until the last few years. When I was in my early twenties, I enrolled on a correspondence course entitled ‘How to Become a Writer’ but life took me in a different direction. The desire to write was always gnawing at me, so to keep my hand in through the decades, I completed creative writing classes at Listowel Writers Centre, Limerick Writers’ Centre, and Askeaton Secondary School. Since I began investing time in writing, I have completed two books for children which I hope to publish, two adult novels and I’ve had short stories published in the Limerick Writers Centre Anthologies in 2018, 2019 and 2020 and had Christmas Stories included in West Limerick Radio’s Christmas Miscellany for the last three years. I’ve been a regular contributor to the letters page of the Irish Examiner for many years and have entered stories in various short story competitions for children and adults.
I’m from a family of ecclesiastical decorators whose roots can be traced back at least five generations, and I can credit parts of my creativity in no small way to the meticulous nature my extended family applied to their work and the pride they had in their trade and craftsmanship. It undoubtedly fostered patience and a desire for perfection, two necessary parts of writing. My work as a painter /decorator and my involvement in sport in Limerick County and City gave me a great opportunity to meet a broad spectrum of people who have enriched my life and fed my creativity.
The catalysts for me completing my first two novels, Underbelly in 2022 and the Truth About Lies in 2023 were the second Covid wave and a triple by pass operation I underwent in 2021. Both events gave me time and incentive ( in the latter case) to resurrect the book I had been writing for years which had a working title of Friends and Neighbours. When I go into the editing, I realised I had enough material to split the book and make two of it. I did and now I have two books published by the Limerick Writers Centre.
Here are Tom's links.
https://amzn.eu/d/gtVwxEr https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1177433
Here is a link to my children's book Adventures of Larry Lamppost and Friends. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Mark-Lestrange/dp/1739924932/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3MZPQCMTP5NYD&keywords=the+adventures+of+larry+lamppost+and+friends&qid=1650891248&s=books&sprefix=the+adventures+of+larry+lamppost+and+friends%2Cstripbooks%2C49&sr=1-1. https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Larry-Lamppost-Friends-Lestrange-ebook/dp/B09YDKYGSY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=K92IZ8CWEQDF&keywords=adventures+of+larry+lamppost+and+friends&qid=1650891156&sprefix=%2Caps%2C218&sr=8-1. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-Larry-Lamppost-Friends-Lestrange/dp/1739924932/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1QWC9BR37CN24&keywords=larry+the+lamp+post&qid=1650890852&sprefix=%2Caps%2C54&sr=8-2 https://ko-fi.com/marksmotivationalpodcast
