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Sheila O?flanagan,sheila O'flanagan
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A Dubliner all my life. My parents owned a grocery shop in the Iveagh Markets, in the Liberties area of the city and I guess city blood runs through my veins.

As a child I enjoyed reading and telling stories, and everyone thought that my future career would have something to do with books and literature. But though I applied for a job in the library all of the job offers I got were in commerce.

I turned down lots of them before my mother accepted one for me (I was on holiday at the time). It was in the Central Bank of Ireland and that’s how my career in financial services began.

I started out in administration and then moved around a bit, until finally I was working as a dealer in a commercial bank. Eventually I was made head of our trading department which was a big deal for me, as no other woman had headed up a bank dealing room before. I traded lots of different things – foreign exchange, swaps, options, bonds, – some of the things that you now read about as having destroyed the financial system. A lot of those trading instruments were new at the time and we didn’t have the same level of computer trading as happened later, so compared to today it was far less complicated. But one of the things that always bothered me as a trader was that I wasn’t actually creating anything. I was moving money around and making some people quite rich (sadly not myself, those eye-popping bonuses didn’t happen in my day) but although on one level I enjoyed it, it also left me feeling as though something in my life was lacking.

In my spare time I still loved reading, and I desperately wanted to write my own book. I guess I never quite got over the fact that I was never offered the library job! In my thirties I decided that it was now or never and I sat down, stuck Chapter 1 on a page, and started. I wrote the whole thing before sending it off to an Irish publishing company.

I was offered a publishing deal (with no advance) by them, but only if I wrote a different book! So it was back to the drawing board. I started again and wrote Dreaming of a Stranger. It was another two years before it was published. It wasn’t until I’d written a few books and was offered a contract (this time with an advance) from another publisher that I felt able to give up my trading job and write full time. So I eventually realised my dream of being a full-time writer.

For ten years, some when I was working as a bond dealer, and some after I left, I also wrote a business column for the Irish Times. Now, of course the financial markets are a greater source of fantasy than any novel!

When I’m writing a book I want to do three things:

Tell a good story
Make the reader feel like they know the characters
Make each book better than the last
I didn’t set out to write for any particular type of reader, but I suppose I must have had people like me in mind – people who have busy lives and who like to escape into someone else’s for a while.

I love writing books. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Bron: sheilaoflanagan.com/about-me/
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