Armagh-born Stuart Neville, author of 11 novels including The Twelve, Those We Left Behind and House of Ashes, said libraries have played a vital role in his writing career.<\/p>\n
“Libraries are very important to me and a big part of the reason I’m a writer,” he said. <\/p>\n
He hopes events like Monday’s can inspire new writers.<\/p>\n
“Most libraries have creative writing groups, and they often turn out for author events,” he said. <\/p>\n
“You meet aspiring writers who ask for advice – whether I can give them any is another matter.”<\/p>\n
While Neville’s recent novels are set in America, most of his earlier work takes place in and around Belfast – a setting that, he said, has proved popular with US readers.<\/p>\n
“Here it’s a bit different – there’s sometimes resistance to local fiction, but I think that’s started to break down,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armagh-born Stuart Neville, author of 11 novels including The Twelve, Those We Left Behind and House of Ashes,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-94130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94130","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=94130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}