Inkwell Success Stories
Getting You Published: Some Of The Authors We’ve Helped…
Inkwell is Ireland’s leading literary talent scout. We find authors through many different routes but principally through our reader’s report and manuscript assessment services. We don’t offer to help to place every author we work with – scouting is discretionary and an entirely separate strand of what we do –…
Inkwell is Ireland’s leading literary talent scout. We find authors through many different routes but principally through our reader’s report and manuscript assessment services. We don’t offer to help to place every author we work with – scouting is discretionary and an entirely separate strand of what we do – but we do aim to help you get your book to the highest possible level that you can achieve. Here are details of some of the authors we’ve helped:
Authors introduced to agents:
Simon Trewin WME
Mary Costello (Bord Gais Energy Irish Book of the Year 2014)
Jax Miller (French edition of Freedom’s Child: Winner Grand Prix des lectrices de ELLE 2016)
Sarah Maria Griffin
Sam Blake (bestselling author of Little Bones, shortlisted for Irish Crime Novel of the Year 2016)
John Connell
Mulcahy Associates (Sallyanne Sweeney & Ivan Mulcahy):
Elizabeth Murray (Dublin UNESCO City of Literature Citywide Read 2016)
Ruth Long
Celine Kiernan (2009 Readers’ Association of Ireland Award, CBI Book of the Year Award winner the CBI Children’s Choice Award winner, shortlisted twice for the Irish Book Awards)
Roisin Meaney
Claire Hennessy
Jane Travers
Rod Baber
Tim Carey
Alana Kirk
Shane Dunphy
Ger Nichols The Book Bureau
Louise Phillips (Irish Crime Novel of the Year 2013, shortlisted for the same award in 2012 and 2014)
Mary Grehan
Margaret Scott
Sheena Lambert
Joyce Garvey
Pat O’Connor
AJ Anderson
John Murray
Clare Wallace at the DA Children’s Agency
Olivia Hope
Nicola Barr at The Bent Agency
Rose Seritova
Kate Nash at the Kate Nash Literary Agency
Casey King
Paul Feldstein
Helen Marie Clarke
The Rights Bureau
Dr. Harry Barry
Professor Brendan Kelly
Deidre Eustace
Karina Melvin
Martin Dillon
Lorna Sixsmith
Deirdre Eustace
Bronagh Curran
Conor Bowman
Authors placed directly with publishers:
Brian Cregan – The History Press
Sarah Maria Griffin – New Island
Jane Travers – The O’Brien Press
Conor Fennell – Green Lamp Editions
Mildred Ryan – Columba Press
Andrea Hayes – Mercier Press & Gill Books
Justine Delaney Wilson – Hachette Ireland
Just some of the authors we’ve helped along the way through workshops, reader’s reports, manuscript submission assessments, critique, one to one mentoring or contract advice (this is an ongoing and very incomplete list – if you should be on it, let us know!) :
Catherine Ryan Howard (Independent/Corvus Atlantic)
Maria Duffy (Hachette)
Laura Jane Cassidy (Puffin)
Hazel Gaynor (Harper Colllins) New York Times and USA Today bestseller, winner of the RNA Historical Fiction Award 2014
Paul McNeive (Black & White)
Barbara Scully – journalist & broadcaster
Emma Ledden (Pearson)
Caroline Finnerty (Poolbeg)
Derry O’Dowd (The History Press)
Lisa Burkitt (The History Press)
Alex Thomas (Completely Novel)
Patricia Byrne (Collins Press)
Eleanor Fitzsimmons (Andrew Lownie Literary Agency)
Deirdre Conroy (Jonathan Williams Literary Agency)
Mark Graham (New Island)
David Graham (Independent)
Siobhan Bunni (Poolbeg)
Jennifer Barrett (Poolbeg)
Abby Wynne (Hay House)
Mary Dinan (New Holland)
Phillip Coleman (MuseItUp, Canada)
Kate Carberry (Liberties Press)
Jackie Burke (Independent)
Amy Lynch (Harper Impulse)
Darren Darker (Independent)
Olive Collins (Independent)
Catherine Conlon (The Collins Press)
Pam Leaky (Independent)
Karen Power (Independent – Irish bestseller)
Maria Murphy (Poolbeg Press)
