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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Cover Reveal
So, at last, I can share the new cover in the Corbally Crime Series….. Ta dah…. Cover Reveal – up for Pre-order Now! Silent Night – by Geraldine Hogan As you can see, it’s a very different book to the contemporary fiction I’ve written before. This book moves away from a focus on friendships, family,…
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Mayo Gala Awards Night 2019
We had a wonderful night in Knockranny House Hotel, Westport for the Network Ireland Gala Awards – this was a glitzy glamorous affair with the Mayo Ladies really turning up the style. It was awards night also, and I was honored to be nominated among some really talented and successful entrepreneurs for the Arts category.…
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Well Aren’t You Lovely!
I haven’t been here for a while because this last few weeks have been a bit crazy busy! All in a good way, but then yesterday I had the mixed blessing of coming down with what I guess is the flu, with a bit of a chest infection thrown in for fun 😉 I say…
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New Book Deal – and it’s not what you think…
So, there’s been something bubbling away for quite a while here in Hoganville – since late last summer, there’s been a rumbling of something new, something exciting and… yep, I guess we’d call it a bit of news! Like so many parts of publishing, even letting this cat out of the bag takes time… But…
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Five on Friday
As part of a blog tour – you get asked to do lots of different things. Just after our last tour finished, Jill invited me to participate in her Five on Friday slot and I just thought I’d add it in here – it’s a little different…. Which 5 pieces of music/songs would…