{"id":26950,"date":"2025-09-17T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26950\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:06:23","slug":"sligo-author-prepares-to-launch-her-first-novel-after-42-rejections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/26950\/","title":{"rendered":"Sligo author prepares to launch her first novel after 42 rejections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caragh Maxwell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ff687654-0d45-467a-b5af-08e4dd0bbbf8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Caragh Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>Sligo Champion<\/p>\n<p>Mon 15 Sep 2025 at 13:00<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Sligo-based author and ATU Sligo graduate is launching of her debut novel this week \u2013 and gaining lavish praise ahead of publication from senior authors including Anne Enright and Elaine Feeney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u2018Sugartown\u2019 by Caragh Maxwell is published by Oneworld Publications on 18 September. It tells the story of a young Irishwoman\u2019s chaotic return home from London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caragh Maxwell Sligo Champion Mon 15 Sep 2025 at 13:00 A Sligo-based author and ATU Sligo graduate is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60,2259],"class_list":{"0":"post-26950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-paul-deering"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}