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Adele Cosgrove-Bray
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About meFolklore and paranormal mystery create a unique blend of Dark Urban Fantasy tales by Adele Cosgrove-Bray.
Adele began writing poetry at the age of fourteen, and at seventeen became a member of Leigh Writers’ Workshop, when her poem and a humorous 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.
Adele has been a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids since 1999. She became a member of the Cryonics Institute in 2008.
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 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 patio step.
She is currently writing her third novel, Bethany Rose, which with Rowan and Tamsin form a series of Dark Urban Fantasy tales set in Wirral and Liverpool.
Homepagehttp://www.adelecosgrove-bray.com
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Real nameAdele Cosgrove-Bray
LocationWirral, Cheshire, England.
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Member sinceDec 11, 2008
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by: Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.
posted by theoldman at 11:25 am (EST) on Apr 8, 2009