PS - She's a Success!

For her legions of fans, the new film of Cecelia Ahern's bestselling book P.S. I Love You is a dream come true. Starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler, CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to the amazingly successful young Irish writer about her career to date.

BY the time Cecelia Ahern reaches the lobby of Manhattan's swank Parker Meridian Hotel on 57th Street it's still morning, but she's been awake since 5 a.m.

Wearing heavy makeup from her promotional appearance on Good Morning America hours earlier, she's dressed to the nines in a designer black dress and red overcoat, looking every inch the young media mogul she's become.

This month Ahern is in New York to promote her new film, P.S. I Love You, based on her first best-selling novel, and also to promote her new book, There's No Place Like Here. (The film opens nationwide on Friday, December 21.)

If she has any time left over, she'll probably pour over the scripts of her new ABC television show called Samantha Who?, which last week earned its star Christina Applegate a Golden Globe best actress nomination.

On the face of it, that's enough success for three major writing careers, because Ahern is producing a book, a film and a TV show at the same time. But before you start clawing yourself with envy, just her just have a look at her crazy schedule: today she's in Manhattan with Diane Sawyer, yesterday she was in Los Angles with Hilary Swank, the double Oscar winning star of P.S. I Love You.

Next week the Japanese film industry want to fly her to the Tokyo for the film's premiere, and then the Germans and the Italians want to do the same the week after. At this rate she'll be lucky if she gets home to Dublin before New Year's Eve.

With all of these demands on her time, the big question is - is she having any fun?

"It's just the way I am. It's the way I grew up, like," says Ahern, still only 26, during an interview with the Irish Voice. "I mean, it's all fantastic but it's nothing more than what it is. And it doesn't make me any more than what I am.

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