Louise Phillips's Blog, page 6

Chatting about The Hiding Game - Elaine Show - Virgin Media - September 11th!

Looking forward to chatting with the lovely Elaine Crowley on the Elaine Show Virgin Media about THE HIDING GAME on the 11th September....tune in if you can! #thehidinggame

Chatting about The Hiding Game - Elaine Show - Virgin Media - September 9th!

Looking forward to chatting with the lovely Elaine Crowley on the Elaine Show Virgin Media about THE HIDING GAME on the 9th September....tune in if you can! #thehidinggame

Another Date for the Diary - Roe River Books Dundalk!

Another date for the diary - Join me at Roe River Books, 66/67 Park Street Dundalk on the 20th September at 7 p.m. for the Dundalk launch of THE HIDING GAME!

The Hiding Game - Ryan Tubridy RTE Radio 1 September 5th!

If you tune into the RYAN TUBRIDY SHOW on RTÉ Radio 1 from 9 a.m. this day next week (September 5th) I'll be talking to the man himself about THE HIDING GAME....let the nail biting begin! #TheHidingGame

Colin Farrell's Adaptation of THE RUIN by Dervla Mc Tiernan!

Colin Farrell is teaming up with Lee Magiday and Hopscotch Features on a screen adaptation of Irish crime novel THE RUIN by Dervla McTiernan.

This will be the first project for Farrell’s new production company Chapel Place Productions.

Irish writer Dervla McTiernan’s well-received thriller, set in Galway, follows detective Cormac Reilly as he is thrown back into a case from 20 years before involving two children whose mother died of an overdose. Through the eyes of the detective we see into dark corners of Ireland including police corruption and abuses in the church.
Colin Farrell will play detective Cormac Reilly.

"The Ruin" is Dervla McTiernan's debut novel and the first in the series of books about Reilly, which means it could be a franchise for the star.

The latest novel in the series, "The Good Turn," will be published in 2020.

Fantastic Line Up for BRAY LITERARY FESTIVAL 2019!!

There is an utterly fantastic line up for this year's Bray Literary Festival.....

You can find out all the details HERE

And this is the info on the workshop I'll be doing...

Early Audiobook Extract of THE HIDING GAME - Listen in now....

SUPER EXCITED to share an early extract of Jennifer Woodward's reading of THE HIDING GAME on audiobooks.... Hope you like it!! You can listen in HERE

Only 12 days to publication! Nerves are surely kicking in!! 

NetGalley Reviews to date on THE HIDING GAME!

A big THANK YOU lovely NetGalley readers for all the fantastic reviews to date on 
THE HIDING GAME!! 

“A taut, tense and brilliantly plotted novel. I devoured this in a single day!”“What a terrific read.”“Gripping court room thriller.”“A great book to read!”“An utterly gripping read.”“Beautifully written and compelling right until the surprising end.”“Right up there in my top reads of 2019.”“The theatre of it all is enthralling.”“Loved it. Proper storytelling here – the kind of layered drama I’m fond of where character is key and there are no easy answers.”“This one does not disappoint.”“It's the first book I read by this author and won't surely be the last.”“A thoroughly enjoyable thriller combining exciting courtroom drama with unsettling secrets, mystery and intrigue!” “A new author and a brilliant one. I loved the way the story was told, and the ending was brilliant.”

Thank you so much to The Librarian's Cellar for choosing ...

Thank you so much to The Librarian's Cellar for choosing THE HIDING GAME as their book of the week!!

Half A Million Hits or 500,000 if you prefer!!

Well it looks like the little old blog will hit 500,000 today!


I guess it's not bad for something I reluctantly began on a writers retreat a little over 8 years ago...

Despite my early reservations, it has been great fun...

Sending out a big THANK YOU today to all who visited from around the globe!

The top locations are....drum roll....

United States 217,591Ireland 105,093France 36,212United Kingdom 21,105