Like most writers I didn’t take the direct route into publishing, I gained an Honours Degree in English Literature and Psychology from Dublin City University and a Postgraduate Degree from University College, Galway. I have worked in all sorts of jobs, as a fashion model, an event’s organizer and in the intellectual disability and mental health sector. The constant throughout has been a love of books! I have read and written all of my life.
I was a winner in the 2014 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair – an international
competition for emerging writers, the feedback was very positive and
complimentary and suddenly, there were possibilities beyond just scribbling a few
lines here and a few lines there.
In 2018 I was selected as a Words Ireland winner in the DWAD afternoon – this
opened up opportunities among writers and film directors and it was an honor to
be one of the final winners.
In 2019 I was honored and delighted to win Mayo Business Woman of the Year
(Arts) in the Network Ireland Business Woman of the Year Awards.
My contemporary fiction novels have achieved top ten best seller status across the US, UK, Australia and Canada. My Husbands Wives was a top ten bestseller in
Ireland on its trade paper back release. The Ladies Midnight Swimming Club –
reached the overall No 1 position in the Amazon UK charts and has spent weeks
sitting pretty in the top overall books sold and read on Amazon. Its available in e-
book and in all good bookshops. All of my novels can be found in large print and
audio formats also. You can order most formats through your local library.
There have been many highs along the way, when the books featured as Book Club Favorites, Net Galley Hot Reads and Summer Must Reads. Being chosen as a
summer must read never gets old!
In 2024 The Bookshop Ladies was shortlisted for An Post Book Award.
I also write crime fiction novels under the name Geraldine Hogan. My Corbally
series, set in Limerick is published by Bookouture.
I am a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines and short story
compilations.
I am currently working on edits and an idea for a new contemporary fiction novel. I live in the west of Ireland with my husband – Mr H, our family and the best
chocolate Labrador in the world. (I might be a bit biased on that last piece!)
Latest News
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My Weekly – Review
I grew up in a house of books. There were books from my parents, my grandparents and even my great grandparents. There were books that were read to us, books that were gifts and those we discovered ourselves as children and later as teenagers. We were a family who bought the daily paper – the…
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Beady Jan’s Books – the blog tour!
So, this was the final stop on the Secrets We Keep Blog Tour and what a stop! So happy and delighted with this lovely review from Beady Jan! Beady Jan’s Review And here’s the post in all its glory! Secrets we keep – Faith Hogan – blog tour and Review My review Secrets We Keep…
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Launch of My Husband Wives – the speaches
Any writer will tell you that the culmination of all those words is seeing the book in your hand. Maeve Binchey once said that imagining her eventual book launch was what got her through the wilderness of writing her first book. Launching My Husbands Wives was a happy occasion, I had expected to be…
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Love Books Group – Author Q&A
In the week of My Husbands Wives, paper back publication, I popped over to Love Books Group – now here’s a seriously busy woman. We talked about writing, reading and just deserts! Here’s a link to this wonderful site: https://lovebooksgroup.blog/2017/05/13/my-husbands-wives-gerhogan-aria_fiction-qa/ And here’s the Q&A and an extract as it appeared back in May…
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Finding Inspiration – My Husbands Wives
This was a stop on the My Husbands Wives tour at the launch of the Trade Paperback – thanks again to Writing.ie for having me back again! Did I mention that it’s a great resource if you’re thinking about putting down a few words?? Here I’m talking about Inspiration…. Finding my Inspiration: My Husband’s…