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Born in Dublin, Louise Phillips began writing in 2006, when her youngest son turned thirteen. Since then, Louise has won the Jonathan Swift Award with her story Last Kiss. She was a winner in the Irish Writers’ Centre Lonely Voice Platform, short-listed for the Molly Keane Memorial Award, Bridport UK, and long-listed twice for RTE Guide/Penguin short story competition. Louise has been published as part of many anthologies, including County Lines from New Island, and various literary journals.
Editorial director Ciara Doorley bought Irish and UK Commonwealth rights for Louise's first novel Red Ribbons, due out in September 2012, with her second novel The Doll's House to be published in 2013.
Red Ribbons centres on the abduction and murder of a 12-year-old school girl and the main character is Julie Pearson, a criminal psychologist who is drafted in by the police to help them find the killer.
Doorley likened Phillips to Sophie Hannah and Tana French, and said: "Louise is a supremely talented writer. She subconsciously creates parallels between her characters, and this really challenges the reader. Her writing is tense, atmospheric and we're really excited to be launching a new voice in Irish crime."
Editorial director Ciara Doorley bought Irish and UK Commonwealth rights for Louise's first novel Red Ribbons, due out in September 2012, with her second novel The Doll's House to be published in 2013.
Red Ribbons centres on the abduction and murder of a 12-year-old school girl and the main character is Julie Pearson, a criminal psychologist who is drafted in by the police to help them find the killer.
Doorley likened Phillips to Sophie Hannah and Tana French, and said: "Louise is a supremely talented writer. She subconsciously creates parallels between her characters, and this really challenges the reader. Her writing is tense, atmospheric and we're really excited to be launching a new voice in Irish crime."
Short story by Louise Phillips. 'Another Road' - One young man's crime against another, done within the perceived protections of middle-class suburban Dublin.
Writing about crime, fictional or real-life, carries with it a responsibility. A responsibility which is inherent in all good writing, the search to write a truth. Violent crimes are emotive and disturbing, especially when the innocent victim is a young adult, or a child. We ask ourselves why and how this can happen? But the questions multiply again, when the person, or persons, who committed the crime, are little more than children themselves.
In a world where it gets harder and harder to get that elusive publishing deal, Mel Sherratt, shows how guts, determination, and talent, can win out in the end, encompassing the words of the wonderful Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
There has been an explosion in Irish Crime fiction recently, and it’s a phenomenon which is still gaining pace. I attended a talk at NUI Maynooth last week discussing this very topic, and it would seem that not only has there been an upsurge in successful Irish Crime Writers/Writing, but the variety of prose within the genre has also been remarkable.
Bad Moon Rising by Lorriane Mace writing as Frances de Plino is out this week. In my first guest post she reveals just how she gets inside the head of a killer.
My name is Louise Phillips, and six years ago, when I began writing, I had no idea that one day I would be writing crime fiction. Perhaps it’s a little bit like how some people believe, the writer doesn’t find the story, but rather the story finds them.
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