Today we're delighted to be joined by bestselling author Una Mannion who tells us about the Sandy Field Writers' Group, her 'deeply formative' MA in Writing and the importance of keeping heart Did you always want to be a writer? Probably since my early twenties, I carried this desire to write. It wasn’t something I would admit to anyone, I could hardly admit it to myself. The aspiration made me feel something close to shame. ... Read the Post...
11 Exceptional Literary Agents Every Irish Writer Should Know About
As someone whose fiction has been represented by two different literary agents (the first ran her own small UK agency and the second is a director at a big London agency), I know just how important it is to have the right person out there championing your work. The mistake I made was assuming (oh, the naivety!) that once you were signed by an agent, that was it: you'd made it. Publication was only a hop, skip and a bottle of bubbly ... Read the Post...
Sarah Gilmartin: “There was a flurry of late interest… but ultimately I was happy to go with Pushkin”
Today we're delighted to be joined by book critic and acclaimed author Sarah Gilmartin, who talks to us about dealing with rejection, finding a good reader, and the importance of celebrating the small wins as well as the big ... Read the Post...
Charleen Hurtubise – “I had been writing novels for ten years before Deirdre [Nolan] discovered my work.”
Today we're delighted to be joined by Charleen Hurtubise, whose debut novel The Polite Act of Drowning is also the first work of fiction from new Irish publisher Eriu. Charleen explains how she turned her 'quiet novel' into a slow build-up towards a massive storm ... Read the Post...
