{"id":57128,"date":"2025-09-12T15:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=57128"},"modified":"2025-09-12T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:54:32","slug":"legends-of-our-lifetime-vanessa-fox-oloughlin-aka-sam-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=57128","title":{"rendered":"Legends of Our Lifetime – Vanessa Fox O\u2019Loughlin AKA Sam Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orla Diamantino is joined by Vanessa Fox O\u2019Loughlin, aka Sam Blake<\/a>, Ireland’s best-selling crime writer and winner of An Post Award for Young Adult Fiction<\/a>. Vanessa is the quintessential \u2018if it isn\u2019t out there, then I\u2019ll create it\u2019 self-made achiever. She founded Inkwell Publishing Consultancy; Writing.ie<\/a> – Ireland’s number one writers on-line magazine; Murder One \u2013 Irelands only Crime Writing Festival<\/a>, and co-founded Writers Ink<\/a>, an on-line private group offering writers of all levels a community full of mentorship, support, opportunities, and advice.<\/p>\n

Vanessa is also the Chairperson of the Society of Authors<\/a>, and shares details of a recent \u2018copycat\u2019 scenario involving Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n

Listen back and find out how YOU can fulfil your dream of becoming a writer, all while listening to some of Vanessas favourite tunes!<\/p>\n