Sheila O'Flanagan http://www.sheilaoflanagan.net Someone Special Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Nice to know my books are in Spain and Portugal! http://www.sheilaoflanagan.net/2010/07/nice-to-know-my-books-are-in-spain-and-portugal/ http://www.sheilaoflanagan.net/2010/07/nice-to-know-my-books-are-in-spain-and-portugal/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:50:11 +0000 Sheila http://www.sheilaoflanagan.net/?p=1228 It was lovely to meet with Irish, English, Spanish and Norweigan readers at BookWorld Espana, Habeneras Centre today. I have such wonderful readers it’s always a pleasure to talk to you. Meantime, my globe-trotting mum found Italian and Dutch editions of my books in the Marriott Hotel, Portugal.

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It’s time for a sneak preview – the prologue of my next novel, Stand By Me, is now on site. You can read it here and I hope you like it! Stand by Me will be published on 2nd Septeber.

http://www.sheilaoflanagan.net/books/stand-by-me-2nd-september-2010/prologue/

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Fuengirola Event

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This is publication week in the UK and Ireland for the paperback edition of The Perfect Man and I’m both nervous and excited. I really, really hope you enjoy it and don’t forget to enter the competition for a signed copy on www.cbsdrama.co.uk

You can see the CBS Drama ad for The Perfect Man on my home page – happy summer reading!

love

Sheila

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Then off to the Kildare Readers Festival where I met old friend Marian Higgins who’s now the Senior Executive Librarian. Was interviewed by the lovely Julie Duane and we had a great Q&A session afterwards with all the people who came along. I love meeting my readers – you’re a great bunch of people!!!!

Marian Higgins and Sheila at Kildare Readers Festival

At the opening event Docklands Book Fair

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Looking forward to seeing you there!

Sheila

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I didn’t say anything about this before because I wasn’t sure that it would happen this year but I’m delighted to tell you that I will be bringing out a new short story collection in October, called A Season to Remember. I hope you’ll enjoy all the new characters and their stories as well as catching up with Cora, Andie and Jin from Anyone But Him. My publishers are working on a cover right now and as soon as I have anything to show you I’ll put it up on site. I’m really excited about this new collection which has a festive theme…..I hope you’ll all like it too!

love

Sheila

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http://www.irishbookawards.ie/AwardDetails.aspx#cat259004

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