Black Inked Pearl (Screenplay)
Black Inked Pearl (Screenplay)
Black Inked Pearl (Screenplay)
Black Inked Pearl (Screenplay)
News and Events
Spring 2025
The Strange Tools of Human Communication: The Voice the pen and the Lyre. Pub. Spring 2025
Routledge Publishers (Taylor Francis)
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Spring 2025
THE JOYS AND TROUBLES OF A MISSIONARY LIFE: JOWETT MURRAY IN THE CHINA OF 1909 to 1945
Author: David Murray. Callender Press
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December 2024
PUBLISHED! There was a naughty boy. John Keates classic poem now illustrated by Jose Sepi
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November 2024
PUBLISHED! The Black Ink Colouring Book: your novel art work. Callender Press
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April 2024 PUBLISHED! p[us a second edition...
How to be a BAD Cook, Callender Press
Three interviews with Ruth by Roger Kitchen
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January 2024
Republished December 2023: The search for peace. Voices of despair and hope through the centuries. LULU PRESS
December 2023: Amazing news! Orpheus with his lyre was just selected as quarter-finalist by United States Motion Picture Alliance.
THE MOUNTAIN: A screenplay just ready to be made into a movie – become a movie ANGEL!
3rd Edition, Published November 2023: Communicating : The Multiple Modes of Human Communication
PEARL OF THE WINDS, The latest in the Kate-Pearl Series. February 2023
Re-published! GRASS: a miracle from the earth. February 2023 by Callender Press.
Completely re-designed and re-paginated, new text sections and many new images.
Birds and Humans: Who are we? – Third Edition January 2023
What are birds? Are they really today’s dinosaurs as against us mammals and how does their evolution compare with that of humans and their lifestyle.
A MOMENT TO REMEMBER got an award for THE BEST BENUE SHORT FILM at The Benue International Film Festival – December 2022
The Diet and Life of an Amazonian Shaman, by Laurent FONTAINE & Fermín RODRÍGUEZ YUCUNA
In Shamanism, there are always two paths. The first always occurs involuntarily and unexpectedly when one has been chosen by an invisible entity (spirit, ancestor or master of the forest), most often during a traumatic event (illness, accident or Near Death Experience). However, the second path requires that one expresses his will to develop his powers with Master Shamans by means of rituals and initiation trials.
Publication December 2022, Callender Press
BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARD: THE HELIX PEARL – Finalist!
THE HIDDEN LIVES OF TAXI DRIVERS: a question of knowledge. NOW with new cover!
A book from Ruth's Trilogy: Tales of the City, The Hidden Musicians and The Hidden Lives of Taxi Drivers – with their focus on the City of Milton Keynes. Published by Callender Press. GOLD AWARD!!!!
Oh Kate, your first book. Illustrations by Rachel Backshall – Dec 2021. PRINT or EPUB
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The Moon, the Watching Witching Moon. Readers Favorite book prize Finalist
Betrothed: Finalist: Peachtree Village International Film Festival and Finalist: Kurdistan International Independent Film Festival
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No biscuits in Heaven: Screenplay and Radio play – Latest updates and awards. Trailer now available
Creative World AWARD: Black ink pearl
The Helix Pearl: The story of the wine-dark garrulous sea – Book Discussion (uTube link).
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A NEW initiative – AUDIOBOOKS
Audiobooks are really expanding now and have become much more popular for publishing authors. For me, it’s rather nice to get back, through audio, to what began my academic life, oral/spoken literature. From the drop down menu Audio you can access demo samples from the books so far published or order the whole audiobook.
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Interview/ blog with Graham Mack – prize-winning reader of audfiobooks
Graham is a radio presenter for the BBC and other channels and has had his own radio show for years. He has recently used his skills to being a narrator and producer of audiobooks. I’ve done a lot of work with him so I'm adding this interview as it includes a couple of bits of his reading.
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North Europe International Film Festival - London Edition, 2021 (Fusion Film member)
Black Ink Pearl, and Betrothed status Selected.
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Miami Screenplay Awards – January 2021
The Judging Status of No biscuits in Heaven has been upgraded to Selected. The project has been selected to be included in the festival. Congratulations again, and thanks for using FilmFreeway!
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Kathy by Ruth Finnegan has been selected at the Prisma Independent Film Awards – 3rd year, 3rd monthly edition! September 2020. And, in January 2021 at the International Hollywood Short Film Festival, it has the status of Hollywood Shorts, Selected.​
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Interview with Ruth Finnegan for Literary Titan
Time for the World to Learn From Africa is an educational book that brings forth the historical and characteristic details of Africa. Why was this an important book for you to write? It goes back a long way. My first degree was in classical studies – Greek and Roman times – following my father...
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