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It’s publication week!!! IN GLASS HOUSES is out this Thurs 12 Feb. 🎉 Expect twists, turns, danger, injustice, power, privilege & class divisions packed into a fast-moving story that spans two decades…all set in a luxury high-rise in NYC. Order now at the link in my bio.

🚨🚨📣 COVER REVEAL 🚨🚨 📣 My new book IN GLASS HOUSES will be published on February 12th 2026 You can pre-order it at the link in my bio! (Please do!) I enjoyed writing this one so much and I really can’t wait for you to read it…but for now, here’s a little bit about the story!

Lovely interview with Claire-Louise Bennett by @edelcoffey.bsky.social – touching on exploring the Samuel Beckett archives. You can read Bennett's creative response to Beckett in Tolka Issue Seven. www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...

"An amazing coup for Murder One to have him (Chris Whitaker) as their guest" TY @edelcoffey.bsky.social 🙏 Chris Whitaker in conv. w/ Edel Coffey 🗓️Sat, Oct 18th at 6pm 📍dlr LexIcon, Dun Laoghaire Book your ticket today at: www.eventbrite.ie/e/all-the-co... www.murderone.ie #murderonefest2025

Tune in to Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social at 2pm for a bank holiday special looking at upcoming cultural highlights with me, Sean Rocks, @johnmaguire.bsky.social @zarahedderman.bsky.social and @jengannon426.bsky.social. So many great books, films, albums and TV shows coming our way!

Ep 2 of @wearetheprompt.bsky.social airs this Sunday on @rteradio1.bsky.social at 7.30pm. I'll be chatting to @edelcoffey.bsky.social and you'll hear three new pieces of writing all inspired by Edel's prompt: 'An Unexpected Parcel'. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

🚨🚨🚨NEWS🚨🚨🚨 I’m delighted to share that I’ll be publishing two new novels with @BooksSphere in 2026 and 2027. I’m really looking forward to sharing these books with you. You can pre-order IN GLASS HOUSES now from the link in my bio. 😘

Can’t wait to be a part of this! Come see me and the brilliant Jess Kidd interviewed by the also brilliant @edelcoffey.bsky.social on Friday 23rd May!

Such a pleasure to talk to a writer like @kitdewaal.bsky.social — smart, empathetic, funny and super-talented. Her new novel THE BEST OF EVERYTHING is out now, and it’s great!

Lovely to chat with Kay Sheehy on @rteradio1.bsky.social's Arena this eve. The brilliant @edelcoffey.bsky.social (one of our guest writer/prompters) joined to discuss using prompts as a way for your writing to take flight: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Submissions are now open for The Prompt, a new writing series for RTÉ Radio 1. Eight of Ireland's best writers have set prompts for you - details here: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Which author's books do you 'pre-order'? I already have @tmloganauthor.bsky.social The Daughter waiting in my account. Plus @peterjamesauthor.bsky.social @sallyrigby.bsky.social @edelcoffey.bsky.social @neillancaster66.bsky.social @fionacumminsauthor.bsky.social are 'musts'! #BookSky #Books

Essential reading from @emerthescreamer.bsky.social 🩵🩵🩵 www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Today is publication day of the paperback version of IN HER PLACE. 🎉 🥳

Weekly recommendations are back! This week, THE CLEANER by MARY WATSON. @marymary.bsky.social

This was my favourite - l read 109 books. Also discovered @edelcoffey.bsky.social and @sallyrigby.bsky.social two outstanding authors.

Wow, love this.

Thank you so much for this Rae (and happy Christmas!).

Never knew this book had a glow-in-the-dark cover! (But don’t like how haunted Beyond Black looks with the lights off. 😨)

I’m at that stage in my draft where I’ve decided every book in my house needs to be alphabetised.

I've made an executive decision to start Baileys season early this year. (If they can play Christmas at me wherever I go, then I can drink Baileys.)

What are your writing hacks for when you get stuck in a story or novel? Mine are to jump to a different point in the story, or to try telling the story from a different character’s point of view to see what happens. #writinghacks #writersofbluesky

I’m doing #nanowrimo over on my insta and TikTok. Anyone else do it? I use it to bounce myself into a daily writing schedule and as a way of problem solving plot issues.

Hello Blueskyers, here I am … How are things over here?

Today is the last day to vote in the Irish Book Awards. I’d love an oul vote if you have a couple of minutes to spare. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/

The best books of 2023: More than 20 writers and critics share their favourite books they have read the year. Thanks to Edel Coffey, Roddy Doyle, Catriona Crowe, Conor O’Clery and Joseph O’Connor for their generous words about my own book, Dirty Linen. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

She’s back with her buds! Thanks everyone for spreading the word. She was stuck in a neighbour’s house. Always worth checking with your neighbours. 😮‍💨

My October recommendations for The Gloss magazine, out today with The Irish Times! www.instagram.com/reel/CyBfKxj...

I sold my mammywagon and had a little cry. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

This was an utter joy. #lovemyjob www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Delighted to be joining The Gloss as Books Ed. Here are some recommendations for September! thegloss.ie/edel-coffey-...

Delighted to be taking part in @DublinBookFest @edelcoffey.bsky.social Megan Nolan and I will be chatting with @321kieran.bsky.social about music, writing and creativity. Some tunes too. Thurs 9 November at the Glass Mask Theatre, 8.15pm #DBF23 Do come! dublinbookfestival.com/event/words-...

I'm over here now! I'd appreciate it if you could share this as a sort of bat signal to others you might be interested in following/avoiding me. Thanks.

Equal parts thrilled, excited and a nervous wreck to reveal the cover of IN HER PLACE. Out March 2024, you can pre-order it now from the link in my bio. Ever grateful to everyone who read and supported Breaking Point, which made it possible for me to have a second novel. 🧡♥️🧡

Such a great interview on the creative process. Looking forward to reading Thomas Morris’s collection Open Up (Faber) ‘I write as a way of being alive rather than as a way of making a living.’

Blackbird in Dun Laoghaire – a poem by Joseph O’Connor ❤️ https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/08/09/blackbird-in-dun-laoghaire-a-poem-by-joseph-oconnor/

I haven’t posted here yet because I feel so much pressure to make the first post a profound post…and then I remembered perfectionism and thought: just get started!