Daniel Kemp

“Oh, writer, you had better come,”
The Small Dog whispered low,
“There’s something going on out there,
I think you ought to know.”

She sounded quite unhappy,
“…Be as quiet as a mouse,
We’ve got prospective tenants
Looking at the birdie house.”

I thought she’d seen a sparrow
Or the robin’s glowing breast,
“This thing’s a little bigger.
Maybe too big for the nest…”

I carried on composing.
“Writer, better come right now…
It’s gonna eat the nest-box
‘Cause we’ve got ourselves a cow.”

“It’s stolen half the bushes
Now it’s started on the box.
Oh writer, don’t they feed it?
‘Cause it’s hungry as a fox!”

I went and looked and sure enough
It wasn’t just a bird
“Would you just like to nip outside
And maybe have a word?”

I couldn’t understand quite why
The Small Dog was upset,
The cows are often at the fence,
They’ve been…

Me gustan los balcones, esas plataformas que emergen de las fachadas como si tuvieran una identidad propia y le dieran personalidad al edificio donde se encuentran. Una casa sin balcón, es como si estuviera ciega, muda, ausente, como si no supiera mirar a ningún sitio.  Siempre me fijo en las balaustradas, me encantan las que son de metal, de hierro viejo, las que dejan correr el aire.  Me gustan los balcones llenos de flores, donde los geranios o los claveles, exhiben vivos colores y alegran esas calles estrechas o amplias por donde pasan todas las estaciones del año haciendo honor a sus temperaturas atmosféricas… Así recuerdo los balcones cerrados de invierno, los abiertos de par en par de verano, los entornados de otoño y primavera… El balcón es la boca de una casa, su respiración, una boca que besa y ríe, que gime y canta nuestros hábitos. En los balcones…

Welcome to the launch party for A Ghost in the Kitchen! It’s a wild ride on a magical trolley through haunted Savannah, Georgia.

All the Pip books by Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene. Purchase links: The Three Things Serial Story, Murder at the Bijou, and A Ghost in the Kitchen

Thanks for hosting me for my novel launch and book fair.

Hi everyone. I’m Teagan Ríordáin Geneviene, and I’ve brought a bunch of friends for this shindig on a magical 1920s trolley. First let me tell you a little about my new novel.

When my character, Paisley Idelle Peabody (better known as Pip) came along, I started writing a type of fiction that I never expected. Pip is a flapper. Her stories took me to Savannah, Georgia of the 1920s.

It’s only natural that some ghosts got in on the act. After all, many people say that Savannah is…