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ABOUT

Colm Herron was born and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland and is the author of four novels including The Further Adventures of James Joyce and The Fabricator. His newest book The Wake is a rollicking work of youthful, political, sexual, and spiritual awakening set against the Irish civil rights movement of the late 1960's.

Colm's fiction has been praised by Sunday Independent, James Joyce Quarterly, and Irish News, among other publications, and he has been invited to read at festivals and bookstores across the UK, including the world's largest arts festival The Edinburgh Fringe. The Wake recently received Bookoftheday.org's Summer Award for best drama, and Colm's essays and columns frequently appear in the online culture magazine Facts & Arts

Ever the enterprising storyteller, Colm got his start at the ripe age of seven, stitching and selling stories, a penny a piece, to his primary school classmates. Later he began honing his narrative skills telling cliffhangers at his local gambling hall -- a venture that proved somewhat less lucrative, but shaped him all the same. 

Colm lives and writes in his hometown of Derry. 

The Wake hits shelves November, 2015.

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