March Newsletter.
Hi everyone and welcome to your March newsletter- only just making it in March!!
At the end of this newsletter, I've put the details of the May 27th readers' day in Deansgrange- so have a look, it promises to be a great day.
Sarah Webb has managed to secure 10 priority places for Writeon-irishgirls members- the first 10 to e-mail her get the place.
For everyone else- the booking details are as follows:
Tickets will be available for this event on a first-come, first-served basis, with a maximum of 2 tickets per caller. The booking line will be open from 10.30am on Tuesday 25th April. Please phone Deansgrange Library 285 0860 or email deansgrangelib@dlrcoco.ie
from this date to reserve your place. Tickets will be given at registration on 27th May. €5 payable at door includes light lunch.
Sarah woudl also like to remind you that Take A Chance is out in paperback and is in proptions in Dubray bookshops aswell as Dunnes Stores.
Judi Curtin is launching her new book Almost Perfect in O'Mahony's in Limerick at 6.30 on Weds April 5th and would love to see you there. (Click on the 'recent releases' link to the right to see her yummy cover!
IRISH PEN Thursday 6th April in the United Arts Club at 8.pm .
Irish PEN in association with Dublin City Council present; Dublin - A Writer's City with Dermot Bolger, Philip Casey Christine Dwyer Hickey and Peter Sheridan. Each will read from their work and discuss how the city has shaped and influenced their writing. All welcome and no admission fee but booking essential. (visit Irish Pen site for details)
And finally:
Thanks to Tracy for this wonderful account of the launch of my own novel-A French Affair
I was lucky enough to be at Catherine's launch last night and it went brilliantly! There was a terrific turn-out including members of the press! so hopefully you'll be able to read about in the papers. Catherine looked gorgeous and amazingly calm, right up until she had to make her speech when her voice wobbled a bit! She read us out a descriptive section of A French Affair and I have to say we were all tempted to rush to the door up to the airport to fly straight over there, her descriptions were so wonderful. John Murray did a great job of launching her book too!One of the most beautiful boquets of flowers I had ever seen was presented to Catherine and her husband Dennis looked suitably modest at our oohs and aahs. Only afterwards did I discover that the flowers were actually from Catherine's brother andDennis was just looking for a bit of unwarranted admiration! Just as well , because if he had sent them, there would have been words had in the Harris-Culleton household later that evening I can tell you!The writers there included Tina Reilly (along with her gorgeous daughter Caoimhe), Mary Bond, Marita Connon-McKenna, Kate Thompson, Suzanne Higgins and Marisa Mackle back from her sojourn learning Irish. We of course said things to her like, 'Conas a ta tu,' and suchlike, and thought we were the very bones of wit, but she had heard it all way too much in the past week to be very imrpessed with us. Afterwards we went to Ba Mizu for further drinks and further chat. I was supposed to be collected by Peter and Tadhg at about 9.30 but when they rang to say they were outside I was too comfortably ensconced (besides the food had just arrived and I was STARVING) and I said for them to park up and join us. So we sneaked Tadhg into the bar (it was totally empty apart from ourselves anyway). Tadhg has a trick at the moment of holding his index finger up to hide behind it and he did this now. Must have worked because the bar staff a)either didn't see him or b) pretended not to see him. We just stayed for another 20 mins or so after that, and regretfully I left just as the real craic was starting. They all looked well settled and I look forward to hearing further news from those who remained.All in all a great evening, so thank you Catherine. And I've got a sore throat and claggy head today so I'm having a duvet day. Nothing to do with the fact that A French Affair was sitting there calling me to read it! I'm well into it now and enjoying it hugely. Well recommended.
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Libraries in Association with The Irish Girls present
A Sense of Place
A Readers’ Day
Saturday 27th May 2006
Deansgrange Library
With Special Guest Speaker: Bestselling Author, Sheila O’Flanagan
A day you won’t forget!
Readers’ Day Programme
10.00 Welcome - Sarah Webb, Author
10.15 - 10.45 My Favourite Travel Books (Novels, Biographies, Travel Literature)
Chaired by Marisa Mackle
Martina Devlin, Author
Marita Conlon McKenna, Author
Vivienne Whyte, Book Club Member
Followed by - My Favourites from the Floor: your chance to share your own personal favourites
10.45 – 11.15 Award Nominees
Chaired by Sarah Webb
Award Nominees Tina Reilly (IMPAC) and Kate Kerrigan (Romance Novel of the Year) will read from their award nominated books and answer questions on their work
11.15 – 12.00 A Sense of Place - Setting and its Importance in Fiction
Chaired by Mary Bond
Catherine Daly - on France in ‘A Foreign Affair’
Karen Gillece – on Brazil and Ireland in ‘Longshore Drift’
Orna Ross – on Wexford, London and San Francisco in ‘Lover’s Hollow’
12.00 - 12.30 Coffee and Bookshop
With thanks to Dubray Books
12.30 - 1.15 This Writer’s Life
Sheila O’Flanagan in conversation with Catherine Daly
1.15 – 2.00 Lunch and Bookshop
With thanks to Dubray Books
Your chance to buy one of the speakers’ books and get it signed
EFT demonstration with Tracy Culleton
2.00 – 2.45 Dogs and Soda Bread – Researching the Novel
Chaired by Martina Devlin
Tina Reilly on researching vets and other animals for ‘Wish Upon on a Star’
Julie Parsons on researching Garda procedure for ‘The Hourglass’
Kate Kerrigan on researching Ireland in the 1930’s and contemporary New York for ‘Recipes for a Perfect Marriage’
2.45 - 3.45 The Write Stuff
Practical tips on writing and submitting your manuscript
Chaired by Tracy Culleton
Writing Groups, Writing Courses and Other Ways of Getting Started - Marisa Mackle
The Next Step - Finishing your novel, staying motivated and beating writers’ block - Tracy Culleton
Story of a 1st time published writer - Ger Gallagher, Poolbeg
Story of an unpublished writer - Megan Wynne
Getting an Agent and the Author/Agent Relationship - Marita Conlon McKenna
The Editor/Writer Relationship – Orna Ross
Questions from the floor
3.45 Close
Speakers in Order of Appearance
Sarah Webb (5)
Sarah Webb worked in the book business for many years and now writes full time as well as working as a children’s book consultant. She has written five bestsellers, Three Times a Lady, Always the Bridesmaid, Something to Talk About, Some Kind of Wonderful and It Had to Be You. Her sixth novel, Take a Chance has just been published in paperback. She also compiled and edited Travelling Light, a non-fiction travel book in aid of Kisiizi Hospital in Uganda. Sarah has programmed many popular and successful readers’ days including this one. http://www.sarahwebb.info/
Marisa Mackle
Marisa Mackle is the author of Mr Right for the Night, So Long Mr Wrong and The Mile High Guy. Her latest book is Chinese Whispers. Her work has been translated into Japanese, German and Russian and is also on the English Literature degree course at Salzburg University. She is single and lives with her big black unfriendly cat. Her favourite authors are Candace Bushnell, Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella and Sarah Webb.
www.marisamackle.com
Martina Devlin
Omagh-born Martina Devlin started writing fiction after winning a Hennessy Literary Award for her first short story in 1996. This was followed by four novels: Three Wise Men, Be Careful What You Wish For, Venus Reborn – nominated for the Sunday Independent-Hughes and Hughes Irish novel of the year – and Temptation. In addition to writing fiction, she is a columnist for the Sunday World magazine and the Irish Independent. Her latest book is Hollow Heart, a memoir. www.martinadevlin.com
Marita Conlon McKenna
Marita Conlon-McKenna is an award winning Irish children's writer. Her first novel, Under the Hawthorne Tree, sold 250,000 copies in the Irish market alone. Her debut adult novel, The Magdalen, was a number one bestseller in Ireland, followed by Promised Land and Miracle Woman. She lives in Dublin with her husband and four children and is the Chairman of Irish PEN. Her latest book is The Stone House.
Tina Reilly
Tina Reilly (Martina Murphy) is the author of four teenage books, including Dirt Tracks which won a Bisto Merit Award. As Tina Reilly, she has written six best-selling women’s novels – Flipside, The Onion Girl, Is This Love?, Something Borrowed, Wedded Blitz and Wish Upon on a Star. Something Borrowed was recently nominated for the IMPAC Award. Her burning ambition is to write sit-com and in her spare time, she freelances for the Irish Independent, teaches drama and co-manages her son’s under-9 soccer team.
http://www.martinamurphy.com/
Kate Kerrigan
Kate Kerrigan lives in Ballina, Co Mayo with her family. Her novel, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage was short listed for the Romance Novel of the Year Award and has been sold in fifteen different languages.
Mary Bond
Mary Bond’s first novel Absolutely Love was published last year. Her second novel, All Things Perfect, has recently hit the bookshelves. Mary is working on her third book and she fits her writing in around her day job as a Training Officer. Mary lives in Dublin with her husband and has two daughters and a son.
Catherine Daly
Writing was not a lifelong ambition for Catherine, but rather a natural progression from her love of reading and her passion for a good story. A pharmacist by profession, she started writing during a ‘temporary’ career break and her first book All Shook Up was published in March 2004. Charlotte’s Way was published in Spring 2005, and her third book, A French Affair split in location between Ireland and France, was published in March 2006. www.catherinedaly.com
Karen Gillece
Karen Gillece was born in Dublin in 1974. She studied Law at University College Dublin and worked for several years in the telecommunications industry before turning to writing full-time. She was short-listed for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award in 2001 and her short stories have been widely published in literary journals and magazines. Her first novel Seven Nights In Zaragoza was published in 2005 to widespread acclaim. Her second novel Longshore Drift was published in February 2006.
Orna Ross – photo sent – early on – not sure of number, sorry
Orna Ross (aka Aine McCarthy) was brought up in the Co. Wexford village of Murrintown. Amongst other things she has worked as a teacher, a saleswoman, an aerobics instructor, a waitress and as a freelance journalist in Dublin and London. In the late-1990s, while living in Cheshire, she began to write fiction. She now lives in Dublin with her husband and two teenage children, where she combines a career as a novelist with teaching creativity and creative writing. Lovers' Hollow is her first novel.
www.ornaross.com.
Sheila O’Flanagan
Sheila O’Flanagan is the No 1 bestelling author of Isobel’s Wedding and How Will I Know? as well as the short story collections Destinations and Connections. Following a successful career in financial services she now writes full time and her novels are now translated into over 23 languages. www.sheilaoflanagan.net
Tracy Culleton
Tracy was born in Dublin in the last millennium, and now lives in Carlow with her husband Peter and 10 year old son Tadhg (whom she home-educates). She is the author of three novels: Looking Good (which won the 2003 Poolbeg 'Write A Bestseller' Competition), Loving Lucy and More Than Friends. She's also a practitioner of EFT (acupuncture without the needles) and has just written a book giving step-by-step instructions for using EFT to clear writers' blocks (www.unleash-the-writer.com).
www.tracyculleton.com
Julie Parsons (photo on file from last time?)
Julie Parsons was born in New Zealand and has lived most of her adult life in Ireland. She has had a varied career - artist's model, typesetter, freelance journalist, radio and television producer - before turning to writing fiction. She lives outside Dublin, by the sea, with her family. Her new novel, The Hourglass has won much critical acclaim.
Ger Gallagher
Ger Gallagher lives in Dublin with her husband and two daughters. A Life Left Untold, is her first novel. After leaving school she worked as a P.A in the property business for seven years. She attended the Gaiety School of Acting and went on to work in film and theatre for four years. She signed a three book contract with Poolbeg last spring and is currently working on her third novel.
Megan Wynne
Megan Wynne has just completing her second novel. Last year she had her first short story published in Woman's Way and a poem in a local collection. This May she will have a story published in Ireland's Own Magazine. Megan was a teacher and is currently writing full time.
The Irish Girls
The Irish Girls is a group of women writers who meet regularly to discuss books and writing (among other things!). They have also collaborated on several charity books including Travelling Light and Irish Girls are Back in Town. For more details on future readers’ days and other events check out http://www.writeon-irishgirls.com/ or contact sarah@sarahwebb.info
There would be no readers’ day without the help of the following people - thanks to Marian Keyes, Senior Librarian, Culture; Eliane (Marian – second name please!!); all the staff at Deansgrange Library; Paula Campbell of Poolbeg; Susan Walsh of Dubray Books and the staff at Dubray Bookshop, Bray; Tracy Culleton; all the authors; and finally, you, the audience. We do hope you enjoy the day!
At the end of this newsletter, I've put the details of the May 27th readers' day in Deansgrange- so have a look, it promises to be a great day.
Sarah Webb has managed to secure 10 priority places for Writeon-irishgirls members- the first 10 to e-mail her get the place.
For everyone else- the booking details are as follows:
Tickets will be available for this event on a first-come, first-served basis, with a maximum of 2 tickets per caller. The booking line will be open from 10.30am on Tuesday 25th April. Please phone Deansgrange Library 285 0860 or email deansgrangelib@dlrcoco.ie
from this date to reserve your place. Tickets will be given at registration on 27th May. €5 payable at door includes light lunch.
Sarah woudl also like to remind you that Take A Chance is out in paperback and is in proptions in Dubray bookshops aswell as Dunnes Stores.
Judi Curtin is launching her new book Almost Perfect in O'Mahony's in Limerick at 6.30 on Weds April 5th and would love to see you there. (Click on the 'recent releases' link to the right to see her yummy cover!
IRISH PEN Thursday 6th April in the United Arts Club at 8.pm .
Irish PEN in association with Dublin City Council present; Dublin - A Writer's City with Dermot Bolger, Philip Casey Christine Dwyer Hickey and Peter Sheridan. Each will read from their work and discuss how the city has shaped and influenced their writing. All welcome and no admission fee but booking essential. (visit Irish Pen site for details)
And finally:
Thanks to Tracy for this wonderful account of the launch of my own novel-A French Affair
I was lucky enough to be at Catherine's launch last night and it went brilliantly! There was a terrific turn-out including members of the press! so hopefully you'll be able to read about in the papers. Catherine looked gorgeous and amazingly calm, right up until she had to make her speech when her voice wobbled a bit! She read us out a descriptive section of A French Affair and I have to say we were all tempted to rush to the door up to the airport to fly straight over there, her descriptions were so wonderful. John Murray did a great job of launching her book too!One of the most beautiful boquets of flowers I had ever seen was presented to Catherine and her husband Dennis looked suitably modest at our oohs and aahs. Only afterwards did I discover that the flowers were actually from Catherine's brother andDennis was just looking for a bit of unwarranted admiration! Just as well , because if he had sent them, there would have been words had in the Harris-Culleton household later that evening I can tell you!The writers there included Tina Reilly (along with her gorgeous daughter Caoimhe), Mary Bond, Marita Connon-McKenna, Kate Thompson, Suzanne Higgins and Marisa Mackle back from her sojourn learning Irish. We of course said things to her like, 'Conas a ta tu,' and suchlike, and thought we were the very bones of wit, but she had heard it all way too much in the past week to be very imrpessed with us. Afterwards we went to Ba Mizu for further drinks and further chat. I was supposed to be collected by Peter and Tadhg at about 9.30 but when they rang to say they were outside I was too comfortably ensconced (besides the food had just arrived and I was STARVING) and I said for them to park up and join us. So we sneaked Tadhg into the bar (it was totally empty apart from ourselves anyway). Tadhg has a trick at the moment of holding his index finger up to hide behind it and he did this now. Must have worked because the bar staff a)either didn't see him or b) pretended not to see him. We just stayed for another 20 mins or so after that, and regretfully I left just as the real craic was starting. They all looked well settled and I look forward to hearing further news from those who remained.All in all a great evening, so thank you Catherine. And I've got a sore throat and claggy head today so I'm having a duvet day. Nothing to do with the fact that A French Affair was sitting there calling me to read it! I'm well into it now and enjoying it hugely. Well recommended.
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Libraries in Association with The Irish Girls present
A Sense of Place
A Readers’ Day
Saturday 27th May 2006
Deansgrange Library
With Special Guest Speaker: Bestselling Author, Sheila O’Flanagan
A day you won’t forget!
Readers’ Day Programme
10.00 Welcome - Sarah Webb, Author
10.15 - 10.45 My Favourite Travel Books (Novels, Biographies, Travel Literature)
Chaired by Marisa Mackle
Martina Devlin, Author
Marita Conlon McKenna, Author
Vivienne Whyte, Book Club Member
Followed by - My Favourites from the Floor: your chance to share your own personal favourites
10.45 – 11.15 Award Nominees
Chaired by Sarah Webb
Award Nominees Tina Reilly (IMPAC) and Kate Kerrigan (Romance Novel of the Year) will read from their award nominated books and answer questions on their work
11.15 – 12.00 A Sense of Place - Setting and its Importance in Fiction
Chaired by Mary Bond
Catherine Daly - on France in ‘A Foreign Affair’
Karen Gillece – on Brazil and Ireland in ‘Longshore Drift’
Orna Ross – on Wexford, London and San Francisco in ‘Lover’s Hollow’
12.00 - 12.30 Coffee and Bookshop
With thanks to Dubray Books
12.30 - 1.15 This Writer’s Life
Sheila O’Flanagan in conversation with Catherine Daly
1.15 – 2.00 Lunch and Bookshop
With thanks to Dubray Books
Your chance to buy one of the speakers’ books and get it signed
EFT demonstration with Tracy Culleton
2.00 – 2.45 Dogs and Soda Bread – Researching the Novel
Chaired by Martina Devlin
Tina Reilly on researching vets and other animals for ‘Wish Upon on a Star’
Julie Parsons on researching Garda procedure for ‘The Hourglass’
Kate Kerrigan on researching Ireland in the 1930’s and contemporary New York for ‘Recipes for a Perfect Marriage’
2.45 - 3.45 The Write Stuff
Practical tips on writing and submitting your manuscript
Chaired by Tracy Culleton
Writing Groups, Writing Courses and Other Ways of Getting Started - Marisa Mackle
The Next Step - Finishing your novel, staying motivated and beating writers’ block - Tracy Culleton
Story of a 1st time published writer - Ger Gallagher, Poolbeg
Story of an unpublished writer - Megan Wynne
Getting an Agent and the Author/Agent Relationship - Marita Conlon McKenna
The Editor/Writer Relationship – Orna Ross
Questions from the floor
3.45 Close
Speakers in Order of Appearance
Sarah Webb (5)
Sarah Webb worked in the book business for many years and now writes full time as well as working as a children’s book consultant. She has written five bestsellers, Three Times a Lady, Always the Bridesmaid, Something to Talk About, Some Kind of Wonderful and It Had to Be You. Her sixth novel, Take a Chance has just been published in paperback. She also compiled and edited Travelling Light, a non-fiction travel book in aid of Kisiizi Hospital in Uganda. Sarah has programmed many popular and successful readers’ days including this one. http://www.sarahwebb.info/
Marisa Mackle
Marisa Mackle is the author of Mr Right for the Night, So Long Mr Wrong and The Mile High Guy. Her latest book is Chinese Whispers. Her work has been translated into Japanese, German and Russian and is also on the English Literature degree course at Salzburg University. She is single and lives with her big black unfriendly cat. Her favourite authors are Candace Bushnell, Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella and Sarah Webb.
www.marisamackle.com
Martina Devlin
Omagh-born Martina Devlin started writing fiction after winning a Hennessy Literary Award for her first short story in 1996. This was followed by four novels: Three Wise Men, Be Careful What You Wish For, Venus Reborn – nominated for the Sunday Independent-Hughes and Hughes Irish novel of the year – and Temptation. In addition to writing fiction, she is a columnist for the Sunday World magazine and the Irish Independent. Her latest book is Hollow Heart, a memoir. www.martinadevlin.com
Marita Conlon McKenna
Marita Conlon-McKenna is an award winning Irish children's writer. Her first novel, Under the Hawthorne Tree, sold 250,000 copies in the Irish market alone. Her debut adult novel, The Magdalen, was a number one bestseller in Ireland, followed by Promised Land and Miracle Woman. She lives in Dublin with her husband and four children and is the Chairman of Irish PEN. Her latest book is The Stone House.
Tina Reilly
Tina Reilly (Martina Murphy) is the author of four teenage books, including Dirt Tracks which won a Bisto Merit Award. As Tina Reilly, she has written six best-selling women’s novels – Flipside, The Onion Girl, Is This Love?, Something Borrowed, Wedded Blitz and Wish Upon on a Star. Something Borrowed was recently nominated for the IMPAC Award. Her burning ambition is to write sit-com and in her spare time, she freelances for the Irish Independent, teaches drama and co-manages her son’s under-9 soccer team.
http://www.martinamurphy.com/
Kate Kerrigan
Kate Kerrigan lives in Ballina, Co Mayo with her family. Her novel, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage was short listed for the Romance Novel of the Year Award and has been sold in fifteen different languages.
Mary Bond
Mary Bond’s first novel Absolutely Love was published last year. Her second novel, All Things Perfect, has recently hit the bookshelves. Mary is working on her third book and she fits her writing in around her day job as a Training Officer. Mary lives in Dublin with her husband and has two daughters and a son.
Catherine Daly
Writing was not a lifelong ambition for Catherine, but rather a natural progression from her love of reading and her passion for a good story. A pharmacist by profession, she started writing during a ‘temporary’ career break and her first book All Shook Up was published in March 2004. Charlotte’s Way was published in Spring 2005, and her third book, A French Affair split in location between Ireland and France, was published in March 2006. www.catherinedaly.com
Karen Gillece
Karen Gillece was born in Dublin in 1974. She studied Law at University College Dublin and worked for several years in the telecommunications industry before turning to writing full-time. She was short-listed for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award in 2001 and her short stories have been widely published in literary journals and magazines. Her first novel Seven Nights In Zaragoza was published in 2005 to widespread acclaim. Her second novel Longshore Drift was published in February 2006.
Orna Ross – photo sent – early on – not sure of number, sorry
Orna Ross (aka Aine McCarthy) was brought up in the Co. Wexford village of Murrintown. Amongst other things she has worked as a teacher, a saleswoman, an aerobics instructor, a waitress and as a freelance journalist in Dublin and London. In the late-1990s, while living in Cheshire, she began to write fiction. She now lives in Dublin with her husband and two teenage children, where she combines a career as a novelist with teaching creativity and creative writing. Lovers' Hollow is her first novel.
www.ornaross.com.
Sheila O’Flanagan
Sheila O’Flanagan is the No 1 bestelling author of Isobel’s Wedding and How Will I Know? as well as the short story collections Destinations and Connections. Following a successful career in financial services she now writes full time and her novels are now translated into over 23 languages. www.sheilaoflanagan.net
Tracy Culleton
Tracy was born in Dublin in the last millennium, and now lives in Carlow with her husband Peter and 10 year old son Tadhg (whom she home-educates). She is the author of three novels: Looking Good (which won the 2003 Poolbeg 'Write A Bestseller' Competition), Loving Lucy and More Than Friends. She's also a practitioner of EFT (acupuncture without the needles) and has just written a book giving step-by-step instructions for using EFT to clear writers' blocks (www.unleash-the-writer.com).
www.tracyculleton.com
Julie Parsons (photo on file from last time?)
Julie Parsons was born in New Zealand and has lived most of her adult life in Ireland. She has had a varied career - artist's model, typesetter, freelance journalist, radio and television producer - before turning to writing fiction. She lives outside Dublin, by the sea, with her family. Her new novel, The Hourglass has won much critical acclaim.
Ger Gallagher
Ger Gallagher lives in Dublin with her husband and two daughters. A Life Left Untold, is her first novel. After leaving school she worked as a P.A in the property business for seven years. She attended the Gaiety School of Acting and went on to work in film and theatre for four years. She signed a three book contract with Poolbeg last spring and is currently working on her third novel.
Megan Wynne
Megan Wynne has just completing her second novel. Last year she had her first short story published in Woman's Way and a poem in a local collection. This May she will have a story published in Ireland's Own Magazine. Megan was a teacher and is currently writing full time.
The Irish Girls
The Irish Girls is a group of women writers who meet regularly to discuss books and writing (among other things!). They have also collaborated on several charity books including Travelling Light and Irish Girls are Back in Town. For more details on future readers’ days and other events check out http://www.writeon-irishgirls.com/ or contact sarah@sarahwebb.info
There would be no readers’ day without the help of the following people - thanks to Marian Keyes, Senior Librarian, Culture; Eliane (Marian – second name please!!); all the staff at Deansgrange Library; Paula Campbell of Poolbeg; Susan Walsh of Dubray Books and the staff at Dubray Bookshop, Bray; Tracy Culleton; all the authors; and finally, you, the audience. We do hope you enjoy the day!
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