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      • The Glass Slipper Literary Agency

        The Glass Slipper Literary Agency is a full-service literary agency that seeks to excavate, unearth and unveil stories that provoke, trigger, inflame, inspire and awaken, bringing diverse, marginalized and globally appealing voices to the world. We work with authors and publishers across the Americas, Europe, UK, and South Asia. We aim to change the face of the publishing industry by increasing diversity and evoking marginalized and underrepresented voices, including BIPOC,  LGBTQIA, neurodivergent, and/or differently-abled authors.   We proactively nurture writers across the world and take them through every stage of the roller-coaster that is intrinsic to getting published and/or having your work optioned for on-screen adaptation spanning films, TV shows, web series, and more. We believe in developing and furthering the careers of our authors, also helping them build a solid presence across all traditional and non-traditional media, worldwide. Beyond the contours of traditional representation to publishers, we brainstorm potential new projects, orchestrate all book rights for our clients, including translation, republication and entertainment rights, and actively pitch our authors and their works for slots in prime TV shows, print and electronic media outlets, including but not limited to, interviews, Q&As, book reviews and longer-form features on our writers and their works.

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      • July 2018

        WALKING TALKING. On the road in Ireland's wild west

        by Helga Kaffke, Gabriele Berthel

        In the art scene of Schwerin their names were as well known as the State Theater, the museum or the castle of that city – Helga Kaffke, painter; Gabriele Berthel, author. That was during the last quarter of the past century. In the cultural news of the current capital of the county their names can’t be found. Both artists haven’t lived in Germany for more than twenty years. First they looked for the centre of their lives in France – and then found it – since the millennium – on the North-West coast of Ireland, in Mayo. They settled there, got married, worked. “May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back.” This old Irish blessing didn’t always keep its promise: the wind was often a gale and shook “the old house that rose out of the rocks”. The two artists counteracted this with their passion: for life, for painting, for literature. They had their talents and a backpack full of knowledge and experience, gathered at the colleges in Leipzig – tied forever to their country of birth, from which they had become estranged. The painter Helga Kaffke died in the winter of 2017. Since her death her spouse Gabriele Berthel shares her life with thousands of pages. Watercolours, colour on paper, portraits of landscapes, people and animals, in Kaffke-style. Kaffke-style is a mark of quality. Nobody painted watercolours like her: falling lines, sloping verticals, seemingly so chaotic, one already imagines the fall of Carthage – and yet somewhere a glimpse of sky remains. Magnificent. Gabriele Berthel paints with words; equally magnificent and emotional until it hurts. She paints in prose and poetry, mixes fairytale and reality, and covers earthly realism with melancholy. Thus a book is created, in a remote place of the world where in comparison to sky and sea a person appears to be a dwarf. A book about love and life and the strength to endure it, for every place in world. “In this place her life was always blowing in the wind – jacket like trousers between two brittle poles. And she keeps still, facing the earth – she knows it well – it was her life worth.” Helga Kaffke. Gabriele Berthel. For a long time their names had vanished from the cultural news. This is about to change. In Schwerin and other places.

      • Bankruptcy & insolvency

        Slaves to the Money Lenders.

        by James Kilcullen

        When the SW bank in Hibernia becomes insolvent its CEO S.W.A. Mullarkey persuades his old friend, Moxy O'Shea, Taoiseach, to guarantee its solvency. Mullarkey is delighted, having passed the problem to the taxpayers; Frank Carney, leader of the opposition, is furious and demands a general election. The EU demand an austerity budget. Frank wins the election and becomes Taoiseach, but how can he save his country?

      • Fantasy
        October 2014

        Midas Rex in Connemara.

        by James Kilcullen

        The world's richest man, with his entourage, checks into the Turla Lodge Hotel, in the heart of Connemara. He doesn't tell his staff why he has come to this desolate area; certainly not on vacation. He is seeking the one thing his  money can't buy. Frank Carney, the Taoiseach is summoned to his presence and handed a note of his requirement. Frank absolutely refuses. "Do as I order or I'll have this damned country blown off the face of the map." Frank consults Ulick and Dan/Ozzy. If they give in  to this autocrat - they're damned and if they don't - they're damned. What can they do?

      • Iron Annie

        by Luke Cassidy

        IRON ANNIE is an energetic, character-driven literary debut written in the first person, combining a rich Irish colloquial lyricism with a warm and universal European sensibility. Set primarily in the Irish border town of Dundalk, the story is told by Aoife, a bisexual female narrator whose obsession with Annie, a strong and magnetic, if somewhat capricious character, threatens to undermine what stability Aoife has. Aoife brings Annie on a road trip through Brexit Britain to offload ten kilos of cocaine, but when Annie decides she doesn’t want to return to Ireland, Aoife makes a decision that changes everything. IRON ANNIE is a novel about friendship, adventure and daring, and the delicate balance to be struck when two people have very different ideas about their relationship. The narrative’s gritty energy drive it forward, but there’s a warm, vulnerable human heart beating at its core.

      • Fantasy
        October 2014

        The West's Awake.

        by James Kilcullen

        The public representatives in the west of Ireland, tired of being ignored by Dublin, decide to set up a separate state within the EU which is now ruled by an autocratic dictator called Count Otto who insists on uniformity in all things. When the new Galway parliament refuses to abolish the pint of Guinness and replace it with half a litre, the big Count declares war. How can Dan/Ozzy and President Ulick Joyc save their people

      • Fantasy

        Dan/Ozzy versus De Lack.

        The Rape of the Rath - print

        by James Kilcullen

        Jack De Lack, ambitious EU Transport Commissioner finally gets permission to build his new mega airport to cater for the 719 jet which will carry 1,200 passengers - in Connemara beside Rath Pallas, a fairy fort near the town of Conna. Dan/Ozzy, he of the Little people, and Ulick Joyc, a local member of the Irish Parliament, are determined to preserve the peace and quiet of Connemara. But De Lack is not for turning.

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