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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Jaffa Reads Too – Inspiration for Ballytokeep
Well I just thought I’d drop this in here…. It’s the third stop on my blog tour from February where I dropped in on the lovely Jo and Jaffa at Jaffa Reads Too! thanks so much to both of them for having me on their lovely, eclectic and very busy blog!! Here I’m talking about…
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International Womens Day 2017
Okay, so I admit, I’m a bit star struck!! When they asked me if I’d do a piece on Kobo for Canada I was over the moon. A Q&A k- easy peasy, right? Actually, yes right! Today it went ‘live’ and there I am, an ‘influential female author,’ sitting alongside the fabulous Margaret Atwood —…
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Secrets We Keep – 23 Review Street
As you can imagine, it’s been a busy month since the release of Secrets We Keep at the beginning of Feb — I had hoped to cross post from the lovely bloggers featuring the book each day, but I’m afraid that this time round social media has become a lot more… social! So, there’s been…
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Guest Post — Rachel’s Randome Reads …#MFEO
Now, I did mention that there was a blog tour afoot… Part of my brilliant plan, so the internet doesn’t crash out altogether with all the blogging and sharing and reviewing that’s going on is that while the actual ‘Blog Tour,’ is trundling along for February, in March I’ll repost most of the tour to…
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The Blog Tour!!!
As you may have noticed — unless you’re not remotely connected to any kind of social media – because it feels like I’m everywhere right now — we are having ourselves a little blog tour for Secrets We Keep. Well, when I say little… there were twenty eight stops last time I checked – that’s…