Laurence O’Bryan talks writing – and what comes afterwards

Jun 14

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Laurence O’Bryan describes himself as ‘an award winning Irish crime/mystery writer & social media evangelist who won’t shut up!’ Having spent years working out how to market books, he has had a #1 selling novel on Laurence O'Bryan 2Amazon and his novels have been translated into 10 languages.

His writing career kicked off in 2007 when his debut novel, The Istanbul Puzzle, won the Outstanding Novel Submitted Award at the Southern California Writers’ Conference. The same novel, five years later, was shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of 2012. Fast-forward to 2015 and The Jerusalem Puzzle and The Manhattan Puzzle are on the book shelves and he’s currently working on his fourth novel, The Nuremburg Puzzle.

His novels have received rave reviews with his writing style compared to that of Dan Brown and Robert Harris, while others felt his electrifying conspiracy thrillers would entice fans of Scott Mariani and Sam Bourne.

‘A brisk plot which draws the reader into a conspiratorial rapport’ – The Telegraph

‘… stylish conspiracy thriller … combines plenty of stirring action with fascinating historical detail’ – Irish Independent

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I first had the pleasure of meeting Laurence over three years ago at the monthly ‘live’ crime writers’ group he hosts in Dublin. Although venues may have changed over the years, his mission to help and promote fellow writers has become ever stronger and led to him setting up www.BooksGoSocial.com and most recently to organise the Writers’ Conference which takes place in the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin at the end of the month. With a 25 year career in IT marketing and over 117K Twitter Followers, surely he’s the ideal candidate to pass on all he knows to the many unpublished novelists trying to find the edge. It may all be about the writing but, it appears, once your masterpiece is complete it’s time to don your marketing hat and get it noticed.

You can read the full interview on writing.ie by clicking here which offers an insight into O’Bryan’s writing journey along with details on:

the Writers Conference which takes place in the
Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin
from 26 – 28 June.

About Susan Condon

Irish Writer and Poet. Award winning, published short story writer.

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  1. Doreen Duffy | June 15, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    Hi Susan

    I just got to read your full interview with Laurence O’Bryan, it’s brilliant, well done.

    I hope you are managing to get some writing done and don’t forget about the RTE Guide competition.

    I however haven’t written a word since our last class, typical of me I know. I started doing some sort of mad clear out of the house and the pile of black bags for Barnardos is growing but the house doesn’t seem any clearer.

    Anyhoo, I hope all is good with you and I hope to see you soon for a chat.

    Doreen xxx

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    • Susan Condon | June 15, 2015 at 9:46 pm

      Thanks Doreen – and I’m working on my RTE/Penguin submission! I’d a burst of inspiration and I’m now following where it leads . . . And most definitely catch up soon. x

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