Thanks for your company at #womenwritersnet this week. Here's looking forward to input from @lizchampion.bsky.social from tomorrow. Have a good evening.
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Very best of luck @ruthwriter.bsky.social from all of us #WomenWritersNet and thanks to everyone who's joined in this evening's #AuthorInterview
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Thank you for joining us, Rita! #WomenWritersNet And for being the person behind the scenes responsible for the beautiful slides!
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Blue field featuring the cover of the book, The Last Week of Him. Text next to cover on this image states: Women Writers Network Interviews Ruth O'Leary. Thank you, Ruth, for chatting with us, and thank you to all who took part in tonight’s #AuthorInterview. To find out about future events, make sure to follow us on Bluesky and the hashtag #WomenWritersNet.
Thank you, Ruth, for chatting with us, and thank you to all who took part in tonight’s #AuthorInterview.
To find out about future events, make sure to follow us on Bluesky and the hashtag #WomenWritersNet.
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It's an absolute pleasure to have you in a #WomenWritersNet #AuthorInterview, Ruth. The best of luck with your writing - and I'm already looking forward to book 4...any hints??
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An immense achievement! Big round of #WomenWritersNet applause for The Last Week of Him 😆
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A6 I can highly recommend all of Ruth's novels - and I'm not alone! She's very modestly not said that she's in the Irish Bestsellers top ten for the books #WomenWritersNet
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A4 #WomenWritersNet Yeah, nobody really broadcasts their foibles and failings.
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A3 Writers supporting writers! It comes in all guises. What a great idea. #WomenWritersNet
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We need to remind ourselves the importance of being in the present #WomenWritersNet
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Blue field featuring the cover of the book, The Last Week of Him. Text next to cover on this image states: Women Writers Network Interviews Ruth O'Leary. Q6 Where can we find out more about you and The Last Week of Him?
Q6 Where can we find out more about you and The Last Week of Him?
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Absolutely! When I teach memoir/life writing, there's great discussion about 'truth' and how it's never absolute in terms of memories. Fascinating #WomenWritersNet
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A5 What a lovely tribute! And happy memories of your own dog immortalised. The colours on the book are lovely - as on all three of your books. The yellow/orange of A Week To Remember really depicts the light on the Camino Way #WomenWritersNet Do you choose your own covers?
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A5 #WomenWritersNet What was the process like, for the cover design? For example, did you have a brief for the designer?
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A4 Yes, there's often discussion about banning social media for under 16s, but it's probably more useful to learn how to manage it well #WomenWritersNet
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A4 #WomenWritersNet That's very believable!
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A4 When we don't see people for a while, we do tend to think of them as permanently how they were 'back then' - and it can be a real awakening to meet them again #WomenWritersNet
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Blue field featuring the cover of the book, The Last Week of Him. Text next to cover on this image states: Women Writers Network Interviews Ruth O'Leary. Q5 Can you tell us about the beautiful cover to The Last Week of Him? What is the story behind the dog we see there?
Q5 Can you tell us about the beautiful cover to The Last Week of Him? What is the story behind the dog we see there?
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A4 #WomenWritersNet It's very topical, and deserves public conversation. The technology is there to stay (and become ever more sophisticated). So the question of how we manage relationships near and far in the era of social media will remain current.
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A3 How wonderful to have 'real people' in the novel. I bet they were delighted - what an honour #WomenWritersNet
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A4 So true, Rita. I have to remind myself of that every time I see friends' and writers' 'perfect' lives on social media! #WomenWritersNet
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A4 Very good point. It's similar to looking at everything through a camera/phone lens - instead of experiencing it firsthand #WomenWritersNet
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A3 #WomenWritersNet That does sound special!
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A4 #WomenWritersNet Our carefully curated online presence often masks our real struggles.
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A3 I think we never lose that sense of going home, however long we're away. I feel it whenever I return here, to my bit of Mayo - not quite so far as Belmullet! #WomenWritersNet
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#WomenWritersNet They sound like very different places, yet the wind makes me think of how bitterly cold the wind is in NYC in the winter...also coming from the Atlantic!
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A3 You had one of your two book launches in Belmullet, too, Ruth (the other in Dublin). That must have been special - to be in the community you've written about? #WomenWritersNet
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Blue field featuring the cover of the book, The Last Week of Him. Text next to cover on this image states: Women Writers Network Interviews Ruth O'Leary. Q4 I imagine there are book clubs up and down the country reading The Last Week of Him for their next meeting. What conversations do you hope your book will spark among readers?
Q4 I imagine there are book clubs up and down the country reading The Last Week of Him for their next meeting. What conversations do you hope your book will spark among readers?
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A3 Great minds, Valeria - we're asking the same question!! #WomenWritersNet
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A3 And that's Belmullet, in Co. Mayo (West of Ireland), Ruth? Why did you pick that setting? #WomenWritersNet
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