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Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin is an Irish literary coach. She is also, as Sam Blake a published author.
In 2006, Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin moved from a career in event management to self-employment, founding Inkwell Writers Workshops to run fiction-writing workshops taught by bestselling published writers. [1] [2] During the post-2008 Irish economic downturn, the company was renamed The Inkwell Group and became a publishing consultancy. O'Loughlin publishes crime fiction as "Sam Blake". [3]
In 2019 she was elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. [4] In 2024, she was elected as the new Chair, [5] succeeding Joanne Harris. [6] [7]
In 2022, O'Loughlin was one of over 100 authors to contribute to 100 Ways to Write a Book – a compilation of author interviews put together by author Alex Pearl during the COVID pandemic. [8] [9] [10]
In 2015, the Bonnier Twenty7 signed O'Loughlin to write a three-book series of crime novels featuring Garda detective Cat Connolly and set in Dublin. [11] The first book in the series was Little Bones, and was released, as were the two subsequent volumes, under the pen name Sam Blake. Little Bones went straight into the Irish fiction bestseller list at first place and stayed there for four weeks, [12] eventually featuring in the Irish top ten for eight weeks. In Deep Water and No Turning Back also entered the Irish bestseller lists.[ citation needed ]
In January 2020, standalone thriller Keep Your Eyes On Me was released by Corvus Books, together with an audio recording from Bolinda Publishing narrated by Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch. Keep Your Eyes On Me was also a No.1 Irish Times bestseller. [12]
In January 2022 The Dark Room, was published by Corvus Books. [13] [14]
In 2023 her debut YA was published with Gill Books, Something Terrible Happened Last Night, followed in May 2024 by Something's About to Blow Up. She is continuing with adult fiction however and Three Little Birds (January 2024) was her tenth book.
O'Loughlin founded Writing.ie in 2011; it developed into an Irish writers' web resource that covers literary events and offers advice to writers. [1] [11] [15] [16]
The Irish Independent describes writing.ie as "a one-stop shop for authors." [15]
Fox comes from St Albans in Hertfordshire, England. [12] She moved to Ireland with her fiancé, a member of the Irish police force, Shane O'Loughlin, living first in Bray, County Wicklow, then in nearby Kilmacanogue; they have two children. [12] She cites Daphne du Maurier as a major inspiration. [12] [17]
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