Hello New York!!!

I'm down with a really bad head cold, but something tells me I'll recover soon! As this time next week I'll be in New York!!!

#pincheself
#again
#redribbons
#polisbooks
#irishcrimefiction

The Experience of Alcatraz

A highlight of my recent trip to San Francisco was a visit to Alcatraz.

One of these pics is of a solitary confinement cell. I stayed inside long enough to take a picture, but quickly got a really bad vibe. Call it an overactive imagination, or a presence, but something very dark sent me out of there fast.

Nevertheless an amazing place!

One of the essential literary fiction compendiums in Irish publishing this year!

TROUBLE IS OUR BUSINESS - is given a great write-up in today's Sunday Independent. Edited by the wonderful Declan Burke. It is described as one of the essential literary fiction compendiums in Irish publishing this year.

For my part, the familiar story of a wife taking a lover and plotting revenge on her husband, is described thus - Told in a few pages with flab-free focus, others would need a whole novel or screenplay to build characters and venomous motives as sturdily......

So folks, put this anthology on your Must Read List!!! 😎 And dare I say it this side of Halloween, a great Christmas present for the crime fiction fan in your life!

THINK YOU HAVE A BOOK IN YOU???

THINK YOU HAVE A BOOK IN YOU? Great feature in YOU magazine of the Irish Daily Mail about writing with yours truly, Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin, Alana Kirk, Emily Hourican and Monica McInerney. Plus mention of US publication with Polis Books! 

HOW EXCITING IS THIS???

PRETTY EXCITING..Audio book with audible.com available from November 15th in the US....Another pinch self moment!!!

Giant Book Club Event!!!

Bookclubs and Libraries make a great combo...I am so looking forward to this event on Thursday October 6th at Maynooth Community Library  

Time: 11 a.m.

To sign up for this FREE event, please contact maynoothlib@kildarecoco.ie or phone 01 6285530

Murder in the Morning!

I'm so looking forward to this event with Niamh O Connor and Claire Mc Gowan as part of our visit to San Francisco!!

IRISH CRIME FICTION IS HAVING A KILLER MOMENT!

Myself, John Connolly and Declan Burke chatting to the JOURNAL.IE about IRISH CRIME WRITING HAVING A KILLER MOMENT....

"We’ve definitely moved from this time where women writers felt they had to adopt a male name on the front of their books. I’m very happy I didn’t have to become Louis Phillips."

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

Louise Phillips and Emily Hourican - The Irish Times....

How and why do we write..... Q & A between myself and Emily Hourican with The Irish Times...

Dalkey Creates is returning for its third year and will take place from Thursday to Sunday, October 13th to 16th, in Dalkey, Co Dublin. The festival will feature a range of writing workshops and events involving several high-profile authors and writers. Taking part as course facilitators are Louise Phillips, author of The Game Changer, and Emily Hourican, whose latest book is The Privilieged. They spoke to each other about different writing techniques and advice ahead of the festival.

Emily: Why do you write, Louise?

Louise: I write because I love it. Words coming together, bringing fictional characters to life, even the dubious ones. And how over time you come to care about your characters more and more, because they have become real to you. It’s a great experience creating a fictional world, to be there in the middle of it, in much the same way as reading a good book. You don’t want to be anywhere other than within those pages.

Read Full Article HERE

Join the Last Kiss Thread!!!

If you want to join the discussion thread on Last Kiss, the Psychological Thriller Book of the Month, you can do so here by joining the group - https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/84067-psychological-thrillers - Note: you must be a member of Goodreads!! -** For ZOE SHARP fans....she might be dropping in!! -

Intro from Jim Crocker

The discussion thread for our October Book of the Month feature read opens for comments October 1, 2016. Read the book now and be ready to join in the fun. We will have contests with nifty prizes along with our usual lively discussions. The thread will remain open for ONE YEAR! But why wait? Louise Phillips will be on hand to answer questions and reveal the mysterious secrets associated with this stunning novel--a real psychological thriller!