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On Wednesday 5th September next Louise Phillips will launch her debut novel Red Ribbons at 6.30pm in Hughes and Hughes in the St.  Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre.

I first met Louise Phillips at a writers’ workshop run by Dermot Bolger in his capacity as Writer-in-Residence with South Dublin County Council maybe six or seven years ago. It was a great experience and they were a great group that also contained the likes of Colm Keegan and Kate Dempsey. Some of us were just starting out and others were coming back to writing after a break, and some, like me, were hoping to get a clearer focus on what they were writing and why they were writing at all. Out of that came the County Lines anthology and the rest, as they say, is history: Colm’s first poetry collection Don’t GoThere was published earlier this year by Salmon and Kate’s dinky book Some Poems was published by Moth Editions last year.

Now we have Louise’s first book, a psychological novel set in Dublin, Red Ribbons. Declan Burke interviewed Louise last week here in the Herald giving the wider public a first taste of what readers can expect from the book.

I’ll be hosting an interview with Louise here on 14th September 2012 – it’s the final leg of the Red Ribbons blog tour that starts on 30th August. Details of all dates are on Louise’s blog.

I’m really looking forward to the launch night – it should be a great celebration of what Louise has achieved in a short space of time, and of course it will also be a great opportunity to meet up and have a chat with old friends.

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