Sam Blake Books

Bestselling crime writer based in Ireland, shortlisted for Irish Crime novel of the year x 3 samblakebooks.com

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Only 7 days to go until Something Terrible Happened Last Night is out in the wild!!

After 7 adult thrillers it's my YA debut 😱🥳

It’s Katie’s 17th birthday – the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Rave-fess, the Raven’s Hill School confession site, is alight with gossip. Then a huge fight breaks out, sending guests fleeing.

When Frankie, Jess and Sorcha go back to help Katie clear up her wrecked house before her parents get home, they find more than broken bottles … There’s a body on the living room floor.

Can Frankie, Sorcha and Jess discover what really happened that night?

You'll have to read it, to find out what!

Grab it here:

https://www.samblakebooks.com/books/something-terrible-happened-last-night/

🙏❤️

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The Don't Steal This Book campaign, signed by almost 10,000 authors clearly shows what will happen if copyright isn't respected - blank pages. The Human Authored scheme will help show readers what's real and what's AI - register now!

AI Update - SoA Human Authored Scheme & Don't Steal This Book Campaign

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Have you read the groundbreaking report launched by the SoA and partners about the impact of Gen AI - Brave New World? Justice for creators in the age of GenAI? If you're a creator, you need to - and join your union to add your voice...

Brave New World? Justice for creators in the age of GenAI | #JusticeForCreators

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Your Every Move came out on 1st Jan and was an instant Irish Times No 1 bestseller! Here's a roundup of the coverage, reviews and fabulous windows...

Your Every Move: Instant Bestseller!

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The Killing Sense Shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year!

After the drama of the Fake Sam Blake (who is still on Amazon, so do watch out!) I have wonderful news! The Killing Sense has been shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year! I’m absolutely thrilled but it’s a very tough category so I’ll need ALL your votes to be in with a chance of winning! (And your partner’s/sibling’s/parent’s!) Of all the books I’ve written, this is the one that I’m most…

The Killing Sense Shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year!

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Warning: Sam Blake Sam Fake

Warning: Sam Blake Sam Fake

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The Killing Sense - In The News & Reviews

I'm totally thrilled that so many people have had such lovely things to say about The Killing Sense - there's now a gathering of reviews and press over at my website www.samblakebooks.com :)

The Killing Sense - In The News & Reviews

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Perfume, Paris and a Serial Killer: The Killing Sense

My new thriller, 'The Killing Sense' began life as a picture in my head of a woman with red hair on a train - the Eurostar - heading to Paris...

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Three Little Birds in the News

Three Little Birds is getting incredible reader feedback and this week is in its 5th week in the Irish top 10! Here's some of the coverage to date, with links to watch back, although I wouldn't recommend taking my financial advice...!

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THREE LITTLE BIRDS By Sam Blake @CorvusBooks @samblakebooks #ThreeLittleBirds #BookReview

Available now / paperback / ebook / audiobook/ SYNOPSIS Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery…When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a fourteen-year-old case – but not all cases are cold, as Carla discovers when she and DS Jack Maguire find the brutally murdered body of a local woman close to the water’s edge.Together with…

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On the list of things ABSOLUTELY NOBODY HAS EVER ASKED ME FOR. Here’s the dialogue from the TV show that the Young family are watching in Episode 3, before Adam heads off for an early night.

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From 2019. I just ran across this on the hard drive looking for something else, and wondered if it had ever been posted anywhere…

[writing-prompt-s]

You live in a very haunted house, but it’s not that bad. The voices in the basement remind you of your laundry and tell you to check the boiler, the rat size talking spider keeps the pests away and is a pretty good therapist, and the victorian ghost children are great friends with your kids.

[onamountaintop]

[roane72]

Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.

[catastrophe-jones]

I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.

[betweentimeand42]

This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit. 

[petermorwood]

Note the good sense of [brackets] not (parentheses).

Parentheses AKA round brackets can appear in fiction, usually as an afterthought in a character's thoughts or narration (as I saw them used just recently), but square brackets hardly ever do.

[huariqueje]

Water    -   Margot Olde Loohuis

Dutch, b. 1973  -

Oil on canvas , 100 x 120 cm.

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The Discover Irish Children's Books Campaign

Irish children's books champion Sarah Webb has increasingly realised that the Irish children’s top ten bestseller list rarely features ANY Irish books. And she's created the Discover Irish Kids Books campaign to do something about it...

Award winning author and champion of Irish children’s books, Sarah Webb (to whom Something Terrible Happened Last Night is dedicated) has increasingly realised that the Irish children’s top ten bestseller list rarely features ANY Irish books. From March to the start of August 2023 – twenty weeks – only ten books by Irish children’s authors or illustrators charted in the top ten. There were 123…

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[huariqueje]

Water    -   Margot Olde Loohuis

Dutch, b. 1973  -

Oil on canvas , 100 x 120 cm.

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A No 1 bestseller, shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year and it's only 99p!!

Clickety click!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0997PD57Y/

Here's the blurb:

If she'd turned off her phone, instead of listening in, perhaps no one would have died...

When Cressida Howard catches her entrepreneur husband playing away from home, she hires security expert Brioni O'Brien to get the evidence she needs for a speedy and financially rewarding divorce.

But what Brioni uncovers goes beyond simple infidelity. Because Laurence Howard is also in bed with some very dangerous people. Bribery and blackmail are the least of his worries as someone comes after the women in his life - someone who is out to destroy Laurence and his empire, whatever the cost.

And Cressida and her teenage daughter could soon be collateral damage, if she and Brioni don't act fast...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0997PD57Y/

Huge thanks to Bedfordshire libraries for the image, I'll be in Dunstable and St. Albans libraries on 14th and 15th of June!