Hello and welcome to my Fresh Meat page. This is what I have instead of a Linktree. Below you’ll find book news, the latest episodes of the podcasts I co-host (scroll down for tickets to upcoming live shows) and info about upcoming events.
Here are some resources to use to support anti-racism both here in Ireland and internationally. Thank you so much to Conor Behan (@platinumjones) for compiling it.
My new book Unfiltered is available to pre-order at Easons or Amazon now. You can also preorder on Audible and Kindle and it’ll drop into your device on June 18th. Preorders are soooo important for authors so thank you so much if you decide to support my work in this way!
So what’s it about?
In UNFILTERED, the sequel to the bestselling Filter This, our fave Instahuns, Ali and Shelly return for more boomerangs, bitching and rants.ie.
When Ali Jones faked a pregnancy to gain more Instagram followers, it should have made her a pariah on the insta-scene but it turns out that her followers love a bit of drama and now she's more popular than ever. So when Amy Donoghue, social media manager extraordinaire steps in to rehabilitate her image, Ali realises she may have to wade once more into the grubby insta-hole. With a very real growing baby bump, her ex, Sam, still ignoring her and her mother Mini having a mild grief-induced psychotic break (her scheme for scattering Miles' ashes seems not only bonkers but borderline illegal), Ali's got little else to cling on to but #sponcon and #ootds.
Meanwhile Shelly is trying to settle into her new life as a mum-of-two while being held hostage by her mysterious insta-stalker whose sole objective is to keep Shelly on Instagram. But with her fellow Mummy Influencer friends @HolisticHazel immersed in creating WYND festival (her answer to the Goop Summit) and @PollysFewBits being as non-descript as ever, Shelly must get to the bottom of it herself.
When Ali starts attending Catfishers Anonymous as a part of Amy's plan for Image Rehab, she discovers some information that may just help Shelly ...
What’s it about….?
Ali Jones is hell-bent on achieving her #lifegoals: 10,000 Instagram followers and a win at the upcoming Glossie Influencer Awards. So when she inadvertently leads people to believe she is sporting a baby bump and immediately gains thousands of followers, she realises that the Mummy Influencer wave could be her ticket to Insta-success, even if off-screen it feels like her life is falling apart with what's happening to her beloved dad.
But then Tinder Sam, Ali's one-night-stand, resurfaces and seems determined to take his new role as baby daddy seriously. And falling for Sam is definitely not part of Ali's plan.
Meanwhile, Ireland's biggest influencer (and Ali's idol) Shelly Divine has it all ... at least on paper. But beneath the immaculately curated feed, cracks are appearing. Shelly harbours a secret from her followers and, more importantly, her husband - but who will be the first to discover what she's been hiding?
As the Glossies approach, what will it take for the women realise what's truly important before they lose what matters most?
What’s it like….?
Set in the world of Instagram and with overtones of Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic and Dawn O’Porter’s The Cows, Filter This is packed with darkly humorous observations and insights, with its finger firmly on the pulse of our social media culture.
When’s it OUT?
NOW bbz!
What else?
Our podcast the Creep Dive has a new patreon page. So many fab sounders have signed up already! Click below to contribute whatever you fancy to our Creep Fund and receive perks like cool merch, advance tickets to our live shows and much much more ;) XX
The Creep Dive is hosted by me, Jen O’Dwyer and Cassie Delaney. Every episode we investigate and report on the lesser known details of the bizarre stories that made the headlines. From con artists to encounters with the supernatural, we delve deeper than any normal person has time for. It’s all that shit you wind up reading on a wikipedia deep dive while procrastinating and stressing about important things you’re not doing. We save you the time and every week do the leg work on the internet’s biggest creeps.
MOTHER OF POD
Two vagde-owners who want a refund. Join me and Jen O’Dwyer for our weekly mess of parenting highs and lows,with special guests and literally nothing informational whatsoever. Non-parents welcome, free self-sterilisation with every episode. LISTEN HERE! Or subscribe on iTunes or wherever you get your pods.
UPCOMING events…
The Breakfast Club are hosting a special reader event to celebrate Filter This. I’ll be chatting with two REAL influencers on the day, there’s breakfast, goody bags and even a childcare to help out with the kids. For more info CLICK HERE.
MOTHER OF POD is appearing at the Cork Podcast Festival on Sunday the 13th Of October. Jen and I will be hosting this LIVE episode talking about why parenting in the Millennial age is exactly 87% harder than it ever was for our parents and grandparents! So come on down and share the horrors and joys of spawning human young. For more info CLICK HERE.
THE CREEP DIVE is appearing at Cork Podcast Festival on Sunday the 13th of October. Jen, Cassie and I will be investigating some extra special creeps for our visit to the rebel county, including even a local Creep Of The Week. For more info CLICK HERE