Music tames the savage beast!!

I haven't blogged in a while and suddenly feel the need to discuss my present book The Brotherhood with you all. Thankfully I've had a great reaction to it so far and have received good reviews on it. I am sitting here at the moment relaxing after being out playing music with my family last night. My daughter Ella now gets up on stage with me to play the fiddle with the rest of the lads in the group. She's really starting to enjoy playing and I'm delighted now that myself and Caroline stuck with it and insisted on them practicing their music when they were small.  Tonight we'll be going out again, this time simply to sit around a table in a bar.

My son Rory will come along as well. Rory plays the uilleann pipes, flute and tin whistle and its a joy to watch them both grow in their ability.

Music is a big part of my life and strangely enough none of the characters in my books The Brotherhood and The Gun are in any way musical. There is a mention of a traditional session in The Gun but apart from that music has no role. Having said that I think the stories would make an excellent TV crime series and I would love to be involved in putting together a score to go along with the series.

Tadhg Sullivan the main character in the series is troubled and I believe music would help him to exorcise some of his demons. I find that songs and music are often a great way of expressing and hence expelling the things that trouble us.

Anyway thats whats on my mind at the moment. Hope to get back to you soon with another few thoughts.

Well folks, The Brotherhood was released on the 20th May. I hope anyone who buys it will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I'm delighted to say I've already received quite a lot of feedback and have received a 4 star review from author Cathy Geha which is published on Library Thing.com. If anyone is interested, if you've read the book, you can review it and post the review on Amazon. All the feedback I receive helps me to understand where I am going right and where I am going wrong with my writing. It helps me to move in a direction that the readers of my books will enjoy. I'd love to hear from other bloggers and receive tips from them on how best to move forward with my blogs. I would really enjoy a personal connection with the readers of my books. I have started my third book in The Tadhg Sullivan Series and hope to have it out by the end of the year. Talk to you all again soon.
Daithi

THE BROTHERHOOD - Countdown!

Hello everyone! It's been a while since my last blog. I am studying hard at the moment. I'm doing a third level course in Irish Culture and Heritage Studies. I am enjoying the course but at times it is a bit hectic trying to study, write and play music. I have started my third book in The Tadhg Sullivan Series. The second one The Brotherhood is available to pre order and due for release on the 20th May 2015. My family have had an opportunity to read the book and believe it to be even more exciting than the first! There are a lot of twists and turns in the story and I feel the reader really gets to know Sullivan on a much more personal level. Once again the story is affected by my own personal experiences in life and by the society that surrounds me. I tried to make the characters and the situations that they find themselves in as believable as possible and would love feedback in this regard from anyone who reads the book. Sullivan's character may be flawed, yet he is equally as heroic as a lot of the straight up, hard boiled detectives we encounter.Politics once again rears its ugly head in this novel. I find it hard to avoid as it is another big driving force in my life. I hope anyone who buys the book will enjoy it and please feel free to get back to me. Thanks everyone for their support in the past and in particular Kem, Peter, Troy and all at Tirgearr. Daithi

Winter Sale on Tirgearr Publishing

Happy New Year everyone! Don't start with a dull New Year, liven it up with a bit of excitement by reading my Irish crime novel 'The Gun' which is the first in The Tadhg Sullivan Series. Tirgearr Publishing winter sale now on through January - £0.99p on Amazon UK and on sale on all other Amazon sites. Check out the links below.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NU8MDTA

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The%20Gun%20by%20daithi%20kavanagh

http://www.tirgearrpublishing.com/authors/Kavanagh_Daithi/index.htm

Hello everyone,

Well my book was published on the 30th September 2014 by Tirgearr Publishing and is available on all Amazon Sites. I can't believe my book is published. It is a great honour for me. To think just over a year ago 'The Gun' was a little idea in my head that I wrote down in my kids old school copy books. It just goes to show that anything is possible, just go for it! I have now completed my second book as I've already said called 'The Brotherhood' more in the Tadhg Sullivan series. Tadhg has come alive for me since I started writing about him and his crime solving. Here is what my book cover looks like. I love the cover and think it really captures the essence of the book. I hope you all enjoy the book, it gave me great pleasure and satisfaction to write it. I want to thank my family particularly Caroline, Ella and Rory for all their support and my mother, sisters and brothers and all my friends. The encouragement and support has been great. Talk soon Daithi

I'm back. Just 8 days to go before my debut novel 'The Gun' is published. The cover is complete and here it is. Thank you again to Kem, Troy my editor and all the team at Tirgearr Publishing for making this possible. I have nearly finished my second book in the Tadhg Sullivan series called 'The Brotherhood' so watch this space. Thanks all - Daithi

Hello there, haven't blogged for a couple of weeks have been editing The Gun - a whole new experience for me. Looking forward to seeing how my book will read after being edited. My book is due to be published on the 30th September next, can't believe it's nearly there! Hope to have my follow up book in the series involving Detective Tadhg Sullivan finished by then. The new book is called The Brotherhood and is once again a mixture of murder, intrigue and politics. Hope you will enjoy it!

Daithi