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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Publication Day!!
New Year – New Book!!
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News, News, News!!!
Well, lots of exciting things happening here at the moment! I’m just back from London and meeting up with my agent and the lovely J girls – which is always fun! I met with editors too, and this is always a bit of a treat – because I have the loveliest editors – hardworking and…
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New Book Alert!!
Introducing…. The Place We Call Home I’m delighted to share the cover of my new book – THE PLACE WE CALL HOME. I’m really excited about this one… it’s the story of a family drawn together to celebrate the anniversary of their woolen mill business. Corrigan Mills is one hundred and fifty years old and…
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Step Up!
It’s hard to believe that it’s a week ago since I headed off to Roscarberry – the far end of the country for the National Conference of Network Ireland! What a weekend – I already knew that our Mayo ladies were pretty special, but this just cemented it for me. I was honored to have…
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The Girl I Used To Know
Summer has finally arrived now that The Girl I Used To Know has dropped into the bookshops! Last Friday I called into Eason’s in Ballina to sign some of their books and met up with the girls there, as usual there was plenty of chat and catch up – really if only to pop in…