Niamh Boyce, author of the bestselling The Herbalist, on how the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair led to her first book deal It didn’t occur to me to be a “writer”… I’d always written poems, but for myself. When I moved from Galway to Laois I was looking for something creative to do, so I did …
Liz Nugent, author of the award-winning Unravelling Oliver, on landing her first book deal with Penguin Ireland The writing has to come out somewhere… I was working in RTÉ’s Fair City office but on the administration side of the stories. When I started out in that job it was much more creative and I was …
Booker-nominated author Ed O’Loughlin on his lucky break It took a long time to write my first novel… because I had to fit it in around the job I had, which was Middle East correspondent. I was always on the call. I would go on the road for weeks at a time. And even when …
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