My Redroom URL

• http://www.redroom.com/member/ajdunlea

About Me

• Annette J Dunlea is a professional Irish writer. She has written an anthology of poetry and two novels: The Honey Trap and Always and Forever. Her author website is http://www.annettedunlea.com

   

Relationship Status

• single

Family

• 2 brothers, 2 sisters, both parents and 12 nieces and nephews

Interests & Hobbies

• shopping, baking, cooking, gardening, swimming, music, reading, writing,

Favorite Books

• Listed on GoodReads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2928688.Annette_Dunlea And On My Amazon Store: http://astore.amazon.com/annduniriwri-20

Favorite Authors

• Maeve Binchy Kathy Kelly Tom Clancy John Grisham Jack Higins Sarah Webb Jane Austen

WORK

• I am a fulltime Irish writer. I have written two novels: The Honey Trap and Always and Forever and I am working on my third novel. 1. The Honey Trap by Annette J Dunlea ISBN: 978-1-4092-7467-4 The book now has its own website : http://honeytrap.page.tl/ Abstract: Angelina, Ava and Felicity were three women with three very different lives. These beautiful women lived unknown to each other in different parts of Ireland. The three Irish celebrity wives dealt with sex, fame, dirty money, deceit and power. Angelina, a business woman, an IT librarian, Felicity an ex-actress and footballer’s wife and Ava, Ireland’s first supermodel, came together by accident and discovered they shared a secret. All married at one time to rich and powerful men until each in turn discovered a secret that devastated their worlds. Add to this cocktail a managing director, a professional Irish footballer and an entrepreneurial hairdresser to the rich and famous. Add a touch of greed and illicit secret dealings, spiced up with drugs and alcohol. What happens when love becomes hate? When you discover the best years of your life, whose kids you reared, whose house you kept has deceived you, you’re living a lie. Anger and revenge are the consequences and lives are devastated in the process. Travel the journey as three women discover that their soul mates and their marriages are a fallacy, a lie. It becomes a path of self - healing and self - rescue. Failure is not an option. Can anything be salvaged from this chaos? Keywords: sex, dirty money, love, rehab, hate, betrayal, revenge, Paradise 2.Always and Forever: Katie the Rose of Tralee by Annette J Dunlea ISBN: 9781409272977 Ireland--Fiction Love Stories 823.92 DUNL Book website: http://alwaysroseoftralee.synthasite.com Abstract: Katie Bowen and Ronan O’Hanlon are love’s young dream. They date and after a bad start fall head over heels in love. On the night she wins the Rose of Tralee festival Ronan goes on bended knee under the moonlight and proposes to her. Her life turns around from this day forward. They have a three day wedding and honeymoon in Geneva and build a beautiful new home on the farm. They soon have a family and live an idyllic life on tragedy strikes. This is a tale of supernatural love. Genre: Fiction, Supernatural Love Book Review available online from the Kerryman Newspaper: Sweet Tale of a Rose Read online at URL: http://www.kerryman.ie/news/sweet-tale-of-a-rose-1708768.html Other Work: I write short stories and articles for the local newspapers. For pleasure I write poetry.

Web Links

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• Facebook
• Literary Blog
• Library Thing Page
• Always and Forever Book:
• Annette Dunlea on Squidoo
• Honey Trap Book

EDUCATION

UPCOMING WORK

• Always and Forever: Katie The Rose of Tralee ISBN: 9781409272977 Ireland--Fiction Love Stories 823.92 DUNL Abstract: Katie Bowen and Ronan O’Hanlon are love’s young dream. They date and after a bad start fall head over heels in love. On the night she wins the Rose of Tralee festival Ronan goes on bended knee under the moonlight and proposes to her. Her life turns around from this day forward. They have a three day wedding and honeymoon in Geneva and build a beautiful new home on the farm. They soon have a family and live an idyllic life on tragedy strikes. This is a tale of supernatural love. Genre: Fiction, Supernatural Love Excerpt: “She blew a warm breeze on his face and rustled his hair and embraced him in a warm haze and he felt her nonthreatening presence. She looked down and saw his face stained with tears, nobody could reach him in his grief but she could. He saw her and blew her a kiss goodbye. She flew down in a haze in a white dress with wings and whispered into his ear “please don’t cry I am in a better place. Marriage is forever. Love and life is forever. My body died but my soul lives on for eternity”. (Katie) “The rain stopped suddenly and the grey sky cleared into a bright blue colour and a glowing warm orange sun appeared to show her appreciation. A perfect blue sky remained on the dark winter’s day until after the ceremony and the hailstone and rain commenced again and the dark sky reappeared as the funeral car drove away”. (Katie’s Burial)

INFLUENCES

• Maeve Binchy - the great Irish storyteller Cathy Kelly - I saw her being interviewed on The Late Late Show and she said to all writers just start writing one word at a time. Too many people want to and never do it. So I took her advice and began writing.

CAUSES I SUPPORT

• The National Council of The Blind, Ireland

UNIVERSITY AFFILIATION

• Ireland, University College Cork Aber, National University of Wales

AGENTS

• currently looking for an agent