Sheila O’Flanagan News

I this piece from the Review section of the New York Times on the internet. As I’m not a paid subscriber to the NYT I couldn’t help thinking that accessing their paper for free is […]

Yesterday morning I posted the following message on my Facebook page: The problem about working from home and for yourself is that you don’t have an IT department! Got a message from Revenue On-Line (eek!) […]

Massive massive congrats to my godson (and web manager) Hugh who got his Leaving Certificate results today. And best wishes to all this year’s students. Hope you all get your first choices, but remember it’s […]

The latest from my summer reading pile is The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out of a Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. This was a big word-of-mouth seller last year and it’s easy […]

This is one of my favourite videos ever. Writers are so needy and insecure that we are terrified of saying no. I watch it every time someone asks me to write a short story or […]

After a bit of promo time for my own book, I’m back to the summer reading pile. Last book was The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult. I always find stories about the Holocaust difficult (because of […]

You can listen to my interview with Livvy and Chrissie of the 12 o’Clock Show here – it starts about 16 mins in (they were lovely!) :http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/p01bks6l

The good news is that I had an extra two books to add to the pile and so the winners are: Kim Douglas Nancy Melki Tim McIntyre Tessa Heselhaus Kerri Rodgers Thanks so much for […]

I have a new look to my website which I hope makes it clearer and easier to navigate. Thanks to Hugh for doing all the hard work – if there’s anything else you’d like me […]