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Barbara Byar

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Barbara Byar

@BarbaraByar

Writer, Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT OUT NOW from @cowboyjamboree BUY HERE: a.co/d/0bucj1Yn

Kerry via San Francisco

barbarabyar.wordpress.com

Joined February 2015

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Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Mar 3
It's my PUBLICATION day! 📷 It's been a very long journey but I've never given up and now, the day has come! Please buy a copy, read it and tell all your friends! I've been told it's a great book. Much love to my publisher @CowboyJamboree! You can buy at the links in thread:
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Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Jul 28, 2025
The face of an old woman whose first novel will be published in the spring
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Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
May 27, 2023
My birthday today and it's been a tough year but I'm hopeful about the future. Say hi if you're passing this tweet or why not read my most recent story google.com/amp/s/variantl… or visit my website or buy my book. Kisses
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Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
May 27, 2024
I've always been vague about my age, reckoning it's a handicap in the publishing game. But age isn't a handicap, it's Experience, Resilience. I've won awards. Grants. Bursaries. Published loads but never a novel Today, I'm 62 & writing my 4th novel This will be THE ONE It will
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Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Apr 22, 2019
I got my first ever ADVANCE for my writing. How COOL is that? How absolutely amazingly wonderful!
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Apr 10, 2021
Sobbing... Almost 1 year till the day I started, 150k on the computer and 3 notebooks full and I've just written those magic 2 words. Nevermind the rickety old kitchen table, this, this is everything
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Jul 26, 2020
This WRECKED my freaking head so I'm here to do the same to YOU. There are 16 circles in this picture. Can you see them?
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Aug 10, 2022
Lads, this really is true
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Jun 2, 2019
My head. My heart I've woken from a pity party to find 5 offers to sponsor me & this. Crying. Now to make coffee, take pill for the head and get busy. Never give up on your dreams, no matter what life throws at you, there are always those who will pick you up.Take their hand xx
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Dec 31, 2020
can these people all please be rounded up and corralled somewhere well away from the rest of us?
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Apr 27, 2022
Lit journals, Please don't send rejections that encourage you to "not give up" "keep going" and "stay a member of the community" It really is insulting
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Jun 8, 2021
I've applied for a Literature Bursary every 3 years since 2015 and I'm delighted to say that 3rd time's a charm. Thank you @artscouncil_ie for the amazing feedback and support for my new novel started at the beginning of the pandemic. It's everything to this WC immigrant writer
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Oct 15, 2022
Replying to @ppirapokin and @LPKindred
could very well have been, all the more reason
Barbara Byar
@BarbaraByar
Jul 11, 2018
Replying to @BarbaraByar
Domacica biscuits, kulen cured meat, plum rakija drink - off the top of my head, can't really think straight right now