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Eurocrime reviews LAST KISS and it's a cracker!!

"This book is superb! A chilling and original storyline about nature versus nurture. It has you hooked right from the very first page and keeps you guessing almost to the end. The way the mystery killer tells their side of the story to the reader in the first person, while the rest is told in a more usual second person, only adds to its intrigue....It has an ending that you just can't see coming, even if you do manage to work out who the killer is. LAST KISS is the third novel written by the talented Louise Phillips. She is definitely a name to look out for.Highly Recommended" 

EUROCRIME - READ FULL REVIEW HERE 

Why women kill???

"I didn’t need the reader to agree with the killer’s actions, far from it, but I did want them to be drawn to her, to want to know more about her, and rather than being offended and enraged by her contradiction of the female carer, to be pulled into the why of the story.." Read full article on the IRISH TIMES website HERE

All about First Drafts!!!

Put on the kettle and call over and visit Rebecca Bradley's Blog..Murder Down to a Tea, where I'm talking all about first drafts!! 
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Culture Night at the Irish Writers' Centre!!!

Really looking forward to reading at this event..It will be a great evening and one not to be missed!

Crime Fiction Events at Mountains to the Sea Festival!!!

Jane Casey & Liz NugentChaired by Sue LeonardSunday 14th September, 2.30Venue: dlr LexlconTwice shortlisted for the Irish Crime Novel of the Year Award, Jane Casey has written a series of international bestsellers, while D.C. Maeve Kerrigan has become one of the most popular characters in crime fiction. The fifth in the series, The Kill, has a killer terrorising London but this time it is the police who are the targets. Jane Casey was born and brought up in Dublin. She studied English at Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin. Married to a criminal barrister, she lives in London.
Local writer Liz Nugent is an award-winning writer of radio and television drama. Her first novel, Unravelling Oliver, is an arresting psychological thriller and a complex, elegant study of the making of a sociopath. Published in spring 2014, it became an instant bestseller and was described by Ryan Tubridy as ‘Gone Girl meets The Spinning Heart - I couldn’t put it down.’ With this stunning debut, Liz Nugent joins the ranks of the Emerald Noir school of successful Irish crime writers.
Sue Leonard writes interview-based features for the Irish Independent, the Irish Examiner and other publications. She recently co-wrote the number one bestseller, An Act of Love with Marie Fleming.
 Lee Child in conversation with Declan HughesSunday 14thSeptember, 4.30Venue: Pavilion TheatreSLee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. His novels consistently achieve the number one slot in hardback and paperback on bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and are translated into over forty languages.
All have been optioned for major motion pictures, the first of which, Jack Reacher, was based on the novel One Shot. He was awarded the Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger in 2013.Jack Reacher, the popular drop-out renegade crusader for justice, returns in a brand-new thriller, Personal, in Lee Child’s number one bestselling series. Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he’s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.Local author Declan Hughes is well known to festival audiences. Hailed as "the best Irish crime novelist of his generation’" his latest novel is All The Things You Are.
Karen Perry & Sinéad CrowleyChaired by Vanessa O'LoughlinSunday 14th September, 6.30Venue: dlr LexlconKaren Perry is a new writing partnership composed of Karen Gillece, author of four critically-acclaimed novels, and Paul Perry, poet, creative writing lecturer and former curator of Poetry Now. Their exciting thriller debut The Boy That Never Was was described by Jeffery Deaver as “a pitchperfect balance of driving plot and honest complex human emotion….the story grips your heart in the early pages and never lets go.”
Sinéad Crowley is currently Arts and Media Correspondent with RTÉ. A few years ago she set herself the challenge of finishing a novel before she turned 40. That book, Can Anybody Help Me is a psychological thriller which draws on her experiences as a mother and internet-user and tells the story of a young woman who becomes dependent on a parenting website after her first child is born. Online, can you always know who your friends are?
Vanessa O'Loughlin runs leading publishing consultancy, The Inkwell Group.  She is also the founder of the writing resources website Writing.ie.
What is it about the crime genre that attracts so many first-time novelists? Hear three successful professionals discuss why it so attracted them and how they turned to a life of crime-writing.

Crime Writing Workshop at Irish Writers Centre!

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World Class Top Notch Thriller says BBC Radio Ulster!

BBC Radio Ulster Review of LAST KISS..."Best one yet...loved this..immediately sucks you in, once you start reading you've got to keep going. Phillips deserves to be known well beyond these shores...this is not just an Irish Crime Thriller, it's among the best crime writing in the World..."

Listen to full review HERE (it's about 42 minutes in)

Lady killers and the Queens of the Irish Crime Scene

Article in the Sunday Independent today - Lady killers and the Queens of the Irish Crime Scene.....

What it says about LAST KISS...."Phillips is superb at suspense, at conjuring up a dark menacing atmosphere, but her underlying humanity stops it from becoming too bleak..." Yes, I'll take that!!

Writing and Marketing Tips!!

"When a fictional voice doesn’t go away, it usually means they have more to say..." Chatting with writer Valerie Sirr about LAST KISS, along with some marketing and writing tips!!! Visit HERE

Deadline approaching!!

One month to go to the deadline of the JACK HARTE Bursary  - Read all about it HERE