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Want To Join Me In Dublin’s Fair City?

By Helen WalshPosted on June 24, 2022Posted in LetterboxTagged city, discovery, Dublin, events, Film Festival, helen walsh, Hodges Figgis, Ireland, publishing, pull focus, thrillers, travel

The Dublin book launch of Pull Focus, postponed last fall due to Ireland’s strict Covid lockdowns, has been rescheduled for July 12th. I’m entirely delighted. As readers of this newsletter know, I hold dual Canadian and Irish citizenship, and have spent a lot of time in Ireland over the years, visiting friends and family (and my father’s grave, who’s buried in his hometown of Mallow alongside my grandparents). I also partially wrote Pull Focus during two residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie at Annaghmakerrig, […]

Pull Focus Irish Launch: 12 July 2022, 6-7:30pm

By Helen WalshPosted on June 22, 2022Posted in EventsTagged book launch, city, Dublin, events, Fiction, Film, Film Festival, helen walsh, Hodges Figgis, Ireland, publishing, pull focus, thrillers, travel

Please join us to celebrate the Irish launch of Pull Focus, 12 July 2022, 6-7:30pm, Hodges Figgis, 56-58 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

Hola, City of Angels 😎 🌴

By Helen WalshPosted on May 2, 2022Posted in LetterboxTagged city, Diesel Books, Getty, helen walsh, los angeles, publishing, pull focus, santa monica, thrillers, travel, venice beach

Well, that was fun. Meet ‘The Jane’ – a gin, cucumber juice, fennel-infused SoCal kind of cocktail, created by Jonathan the mixologist at Piccolo Santa Monica where I held my long Covid re-scheduled City of Angels (aka, Los Angeles) book launch. A drink as feisty and original as her protagonist namesake. It was wonderful to be back in LA, a city where I previously worked. Years ago, during a two-year run on a crazy entertainment project, I’d fly […]

When Is Life Stranger Than Fiction? Let’s Discuss…

By Helen WalshPosted on November 29, 2021Posted in LetterboxTagged helen walsh, publishing, pull focus, thrillers

Recently I wrote about Anthony Broadwater, a man convicted of the rape of bestselling author Alice Sebold, the experience of which she wrote about in her celebrated 1999 memoir, Lucky, was exonerated. And in a stranger-than-fiction twist, the Executive Producer of the Netflix film adaptation of Lucky played a supporting role in the exoneration before he himself was fired from the production for raising questions. In a plot twist worthy of an Oscar, the project was then subsequently killed, […]

WOW – An Afternoon of Literary Entertainment, Sunday Dec 5, 2021, 2-3pm ET

By Helen WalshPosted on November 27, 2021Posted in EventsTagged events, helen walsh, Mono, orangeville, publishing, pull focus

Join us virtually for the annual Words the Orangeville Way literary event, produced in partnership with local independent bookstore, BookLore. This year attendees are invited to enjoy an afternoon of literary entertainment featuring part-time Mono resident and author Helen Walsh and part-time Caledon resident and author Suzanne Hillier. The panel discussion will be moderated by Orangeville’s own freelance writer Bernadette Hardaker. It will dive into the powerful themes in each author’s most recent book: Pull Focus by […]

Toronto International Festival of Authors – Oct 22nd, 3:30-4:30pm

By Helen WalshPosted on October 22, 2021Posted in EventsTagged city, discovery, helen walsh, publishing, pull focus, thrillers

Toxic Truths: Lola Akinmade Åkerström & Helen Walsh Join us for this free, virtual event October 22 at 3:30pm. Registration HERE. Tune in to an engaging talk with authors Lola Akinmade Åkerström and Helen Walsh about their powerful debut novels, exploring important social issues, from racism, classism and fetishization; to contemporary feminism and toxic masculinity in the #MeToo age. In Nigerian-American writer and photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström’s In Every Mirror She’s Black, three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build new lives in the most open society run by […]

My house burned down, I contracted Covid, and I moved to the country—all in the past six months

By Helen WalshPosted on October 8, 2021Posted in WritingTagged helen walsh, publishing, pull focus

Published September 22, 2021 via Toronto Life. In late 2015, I bought a house at Yonge and Summerhill, just down the street from my partner, Michael. I fell in love with the village pocket of small streets and independent shops. At the end of my street are graffiti-strewn stone steps that descend into the Vale of Avoca ravine—a glorious urban forest with paths winding around Yellow Creek that fill with families and dog owners every […]

Ramsay Talks: Sept 27/21, 6-7pm (virtual). FREE with registration.

By Helen WalshPosted on September 17, 2021Posted in EventsTagged events, helen walsh, publishing, pull focus

Join us for this free, book launch with Helen Walsh, author of Pull Focus. A thriller about dirty money and weaponized sex at a film festival. What fun! Helen Walsh’s new mystery isn’t even published and it’s already drawing raves, listed as a must-read Fall 2021 book. Deepa Mehta said: “I fell deeper and deeper into the complex and intricate mystery so artfully created by Helen Walsh. Pull Focus is like a shot of adrenaline: with every page, […]

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.

By Helen WalshPosted on May 5, 2021Posted in LetterboxTagged city, NYC, publishing

Literary New York City is legendary. Difficult to think of another American city that has so drawn writers to live there while simultaneously acting as the backdrop to so much art.