Sam Blake

Sam Blake is the award winning, multiple No 1 bestselling author of thirteen thrillers, including two for young adults. In 2024 Something’s About to Blow Up won the Irish Teen/YA novel of the Year. She’s been shortlisted at the Irish Book Awards six times, including four times for Irish Crime Novel of the Year. Your Every Move, her latest thriller, was an instant No 1 bestseller that remained a No 1 for three weeks, and in the top ten for six weeks. A previous board member of the Crime Writers Association, Sam is the founder of Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival. Sam Blake is a pen name for Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, the current chair of the Society of Authors, the UK’s largest union for writers which is active in the fight for recognition of copyright in the world of AI. Sam/Vanessa is the founder of Europe’s biggest writing resources website, Writing.ie, the Writers Ink online coaching and mentoring group, and The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy, through which she has assisted hundreds of new writers to publication.