Louise Phillips's Blog, page 62

FYI !

Firstly, I'm looking forward to seeing many of you tomorrow evening at the launch!!!

Secondly, all photos for the competition to be Immortalized in Fiction will be judged later in the week!

Thirdly, all comments, shares, tweet etc submitted for the competition to win first edition copies of RED RIBBONS, THE DOLL'S HOUSE and LAST KISS will be put in the hat tomorrow and the WINNER announced at the LAUNCH 

Lastly, all your feedback on LAST KISS will be much appreciated over the coming days and weeks.

Best and chat soon...off to get some sleep as up at dawn in the morning!!

xx

Louise

NUMBER ONE!!!

Woohoo!!! LAST KISS reaches NUMBER 1 on AMAZON.CO.UK in IRISH CRIME FICTION!!! Visit HERE I'm absolutely delighted!!!

Hello United States!!!

GREAT NEWS!!!
You can now order the KINDLE version of LAST KISS in the U.S via Amazon!!!
RED RIBBONS and THE DOLL'S HOUSE  will be available shortly!

JUST A KISS BUT IT'S DEADLY!

JUST A KISS BUT IT'S DEADLY.....Irish Independent review of LAST KISS

...."Louise Phillips goes from strength to strength.... Last Kiss is superior and takes her writing to another, more intense level. The pace is excellent, the characters familiar and new, well drawn and believable.....flows well and airs skillfully some of the disturbing themes laid bare in Ireland in recent years...HIGHLY RECOMMENDED."

Publication Week!!

It will be a fun week ahead and for any of you going to the launch, I'm really looking forward to meeting you there!!! The response to LAST KISS has been great so far with some very strong reviews and also I've had the most tremendous feedback from friends/readers who seem to have swallowed it whole within a day or so!!!
Thanks also to Easons for picking it as a Book of the Month, and Bob in the Gutter Bookshop who gave The Doll's House a terrific launch last year, also to W H Smiths at the Airport for choosing to place it in the 'Book Everyone is Talking About'...and that's seems like a very good thing to me!!

Blending Fact & Fiction in Writing and LAST KISS!

Drop over to www.writing.ie to read my article on blending fact with fiction and LAST KISS HERE   Some interesting guidelines!!!

Not long until LAUNCH NIGHT!!!

Gift lipsticks are very excited about Launch Night on the of 12th August! ALL READERS are very welcome next Tuesday at 6.30 in Easons, St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre!!

Publication Day Party!!!

I've never done an online party before, but sure everything is worth a try at least once!!!  If you fancy being part of the LAST KISS Facebook Online Party for Publication Day....you can join HERE

International Short Story Competition

'Gem Street- Beyond the Axis'
is now open!


Competition Closes: midnight on 31st December 2014 (by email or post)
Short List announced: Spring 2015
On-the-edge..
Left-of-centre..
Brave and imaginative.

These are the types of stories they look forward to reading during their exciting new competition  Gem Street: Beyond the Axis .

Shorter, leaner and vibrant works containing 5,000 words or less are welcome from new and previously published writers. 

Open to all genres except Children's, YA or Poetry.

Stories must be previously unpublished, electronically or in print. Any entry that does not follow this is automatically disqualified.
No simultaneous submissions please.

Stories can be from anywhere in the world but must be written in English.

Submission Guidelines:

Submit your story as an attachment - Word 2003 (please do not use the body of the contact form)
Standard Times New Roman - 12 pt
Double-spaced

Also include the following:Your name
Full address
E-mail address
Contact number
Story word count
Bio of no more than 70 words (if your story is chosen this will be included in the anthology)
Please don't send long lists of the awards you've won or your publishing credentials. We're interested in the story and anything unique about you as a person.
No links to any social media platform. No websites or blogs.

Submissions: €10.00 per entry
You may submit a maximum of 3 stories.

Postal option for submissions:
Labello Press c/o Unit 4C Gurtnafleur Business Park, Clonmel, County Tipperary. Ireland.
Include your entry fee in cash/postal order or enclose your PayPal reference number.
Labello Press will hold first publication rights for six months after publication of Gem Street : Beyond the Axis
Copyright remains with the author at all times.
All authors included in the anthology will receive one complimentary copy.
Three stories will receive one of the Leonard A. Koval Memorial Prizes.

1st Place: €500
2nd Place: €200
3rd Place: €100

In addition, three stories will receive "Gem Awards" (€50 each) and there will be a number of Beyond the Axis distinctions given to stories of outstanding merit.
Guest judges to be announced.

ALL THE BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEAR!

ALL THE BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEAR  - via the Journal.ie 

Delighted to be in here with such giants in literature and especially good to be in the company of the lovely Liz Nugent Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Niamh Boyce - Click on Image to View