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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Nellie PomPoms – Secrets We Keep Blog Tour
Back to the tours again, yeah! I loved this review and I was so thrilled when Nellie said she would be part of tour. This was part of the blog tour for Secrets We Keep earlier this year – many thanks to Nellie who sources all kinds of phenomenal for discerning people to love, gift, share,…
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Summer time and the living is…
Hands up, I’ve been a little… distracted these past few weeks – you can tell from the sporadic blog posts, I’m sure. Anyway, maybe now’s as good a time as any to catch up. Not that I’ve been up to very much (do hope my publisher isn’t reading this!) No, I’ve had a lovely break…
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Ballina Launch – My Husbands Wives
This was such a lovely evening, in Easons in Ballina. Thanks are due to everyone in Easons: Eunan, Alison, Karen and Kathleen. Thanks also to Kate Kerrigan, our own local best selling author for doing an amazing introduction on the night and giving me plenty of pointers on how to go about launching a book!…
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Irish Best Selling List! & Celeste Loves Books – My Husbands Wives
So, thanks to everyone who helped push the book to the top ten list in Irish Original Fiction!! this was a bit of a dream moment – to say the least!! This was rather nice: And then, this was a lovely stop with Celeste on her lovely book blog! Celeste was…
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Lady Nicci – My Husbands Wives
I met so many lovely Irish bloggers this summer when My Husbands Wives was released in trade paperback in Ireland. Many thanks to Lady Nicci aka Nicola Cassidy who was good enough to come on board to help us get the word out! Here’s a link to the feature she ran in her How I…