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Project offers a post- apocalyptic view of Earth - but is this the future or the distant past?  Adele's latest release features in a new anthology, Barren Worlds,  published by Hadley Rille Books in July 2008.

Adele is pleased to announce the opening of her merchandise store!  Exclusive designs created by the author, with more designs being added all the time - at affordable prices.  Visit http://www.zazzle.com/AdeleCB .

In Old World Magic, a trip to her local New Age shop brings Tracy into conflict with one of the notorious Caldy Hill faeries.  This story features in Ruins Metropolis, an anthology of Fantasy & Sci-Fi edited by Eric T Reynolds and published by Hadley Rille Books in June 2008. 

Adele's second Amazon Short, Quiet Lives,  was published by Amazon.com in February 2008 .  These four stories, Beautiful, Dear Harry, Mirror and The Four Seasons offer unusual visions of modern womens' lives.

Pirates, witches and selkies battle in Spanish Jones, which has been accepted for inclusion in an anthology to be edited by Raven Digitalis.  At 6,800 words in length, this is Adele's longest short story to date.  A publication date for the anthology has yet to be announced.

Seagull Inn is  a ghostly tale set on Hilbre Island, Wirral, and appears in Ruins Terra, a new anthology published by Hadley Rille Books and edited by Eric T Reynolds.   Seagull Inn was nominated for the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll in January 2008.

Adele's non-fiction folklore article, The Language of Flowers, was published in the September 2007 edition of Prediction Magazine.  

A Wirral Otherkin Trilogy was published in July 2007 as an Amazon Short, presenting the reader with an insightful taster of the author's work.  These three Dark Fantasy tales,  Frog, New Year's Day and Swap, are all set on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England.  They introduce the devious and powerful faeries of Caldy Hill, and the selkies (seals who can take on human form) who live in the Dee Estuary.

Since March 2007, Adele has been writing a weekly blog column for the Wirral Globe  newspaper at http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk.  

A tale of vampire sub-culture, The Club,  was featured in Dark of the Night: An Anthology of Shadows, which was published by Dark Moon Press on Hallowe'en 2006.  This story introduces Jason, who also appears in Adele's second novel Rowan (currently being written).



Appearances!

On Friday, June 27th, at 11pm, Adele was  a guest on Cath Bore's show on 7 Waves Radio.  Fellow Riverside Writers member Tim Hulme also appeared with Adele, and they both read an example of their fiction. - Adele reading Clara's Wristwatch.  The station broadcasts across Wirral on 92.1 FM.  The show can  also be heard globally via the station's website http://7waves.co.uk/live-across-the-wirral/

Organised by Adele, Words from Wordsmiths was a part of Wirral Book Fest 2008.  Along with other members of Riverside Writers, Adele read some of her fiction (Seagull Inn from Ruins Terra).

On April 7th, 2008, Adele was a guest on Cath Bore’s show on 7 Waves Community Radio, which broadcasts on 92.1 FM.  She talked about Riverside Writers, the Words from Wordsmiths literary evening, and her own writing.

Adele was invited to give a reading of Seagull Inn, followed by a Q&A session, for pupils at Golborne High School, Lancashire.  This event took place on February 25th, 2008.  A former pupil herself, she looked froward to seeing her old school again.

October 4th, 2007, National Poetry Day, Adele took part in a Poetry Marathon hosted by North End Writers in Liverpool's Central Library.  She performed three of her poems, Druid's Journey, Conversations with Dad, and The Tale of Tristram Gnome.

On January 27th, 2007, Adele took part in the Word Is They Say literary festival at the FACT Cafe in Liverpool.  Adele read aloud the first chapter from her psi-vampire novel, Tamsin.

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Adele began writing poetry at the age of fourteen, and at seventeen became a member of Leigh Writers’ Workshop, when her first poem plus a humorous small article were published in Pipes of Pan. Adele went on to write and illustrate a monthly dream analysis column for Your Future magazine under the truly dreadful pseudonym of Niamh Koo. Adele self-published a quarterly music fanzine for four years before becoming far more interested in writing fiction.

She was elected Chair for Riverside Writers in 2003, a post she still holds.  She is also an Ambassador for Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008 celebrations.

Educated at Golborne High School and Leigh Technical College in Lancashire, Adele later attended the City of Liverpool Community College (Art & Design Faculty) and also that same college’s Riversdale Campus (Pottery Studio). 

Adele has worked as an editor for The Birchwood Guidebook, a health promotion officer for South Sefton Health Authority, a library assistant at the Religion & Philosophy Library at Liverpool City Libraries, a photographer for Conservation Practice, a tarot card reader, and as a potter and tour guide for Pretty Ugly Pottery.

She has been a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids since 1999.

She has lived on the Wirral peninsula in Cheshire since the Millennium, where she writes full-time . Her husband ,Richard,  opened his own tattoo studio in Liverpool city centre in 1993.   They share life with two dogs, two cats, an assortment of hedgehogs and bats, and a large black toad who lives under the back step.


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