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There were eleven in my family and we were all great readers. My father had a marvellous library and was amazingly liberal in his views, if you understood the nuances you were old enough to be reading the stuff, if you didn’t no harm done! My own earliest writing efforts centred round a diabetic cat called Hubert who developed a mad, insatiable thirst and wasn’t too particular how he slaked it! Writing up Hubert’s adventures was lots of fun; gratifying too, having a readymade readership of schoolmates queuing up for the next instalment. I suppose that’s when I got hooked.

Later, I was inspired to try my hand at the BBC Short Story Competition for the under thirties. Short-listed but not the winner I sent the story to BBC, Belfast. Great thrill hearing it read on air by Shakespearian actor, Harold Goldblatt. I felt I’d arrived.

I went on to write more and more short stories and they too were accepted. Some years afterwards, I even had the delight of a repeat broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day. The royalty fee turned out to be four times the original sterling cheque!

The short story will always will be close to my heart but the prospect of writing a play was challenging. Again I was lucky and my play ‘The Same Again’ was accepted first off by RTE. I went on to write loads more radio plays, radio documentaries as well as a couple of stage plays, over a hundred short stories, and many articles before doing what I’d always wanted to do - write a book! 

Writing is one passion, flying another. I’d love to fly a plane. The nearest I got was when I went up in a Socata TB9 and flew down over the Blessington Lakes, so low it was scary! As an air hostess I had a great time, saw the world – not just airports –and shared great holidays with my friends, one of whom actually married the Spaniard she fell for, when we were all down in Spain on winter leave. This provided material for ‘Up Up and Away’ my first, behind the scenes, novel of life in an Irish airline.

At present I am writing the follow-up, with the working title ‘Not Just Another Airline!’ taking up the story where the other left off. With the changing face of airlines these days, especially Irish airlines, I feel there may even be enough material there for a trilogy!

To read an extract from my previous books ‘Up Up and Away’ and ‘Like One Of The Family’, just click on the cover of either book.  These can be ordered through Amazon or from this site.

If you want to find out more about my latest projects, don’t forget to go to my blog: nestatuomey.blogspot.com.