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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Reviews – thank you Sunday Independent!
I think every writer approaches reviews with a certain sense of wariness – after all, not everyone likes the same things and that’s probably just as well. I often think of myself and Mr H here – we are a divided house when it comes to music at times – of course we both love the…
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The Blog Tour – Part 1
Even by my standards, the blog tour for What Happened To Us? is huge! There are over forty stops with bloggers reviewing, hosting excerpts, guest posts and Q&A’s. Thanks are due first to the bloggers for taking the time and making space for the book on their blogs, but also huge thanks must go to…
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Ah, Lads…
Just a quick note on the eve of the publication of my fourth book… I wanted to give a big thank you too all of the lovely people who have put up reviews on Net Galley. For anyone reading this who doesn’t know about this super review site – it’s a publishing portal, where reviewers and…
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Blog Tour – What Happened To Us?
I’m not so sure that there are the right words to express my thanks to all of the lovely bloggers who have been kind enough to join in the blog tour this time round. Special thanks to all of those up to read and post reviews – it means so much to every writer and…
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Book Trailer
I haven’t been on here much of late, but I just thought I had to share this… It arrived earlier in the week and it’s a book trailer for What Happened To Us? I love it, but what do you think? I suppose, it’s probably better if you let me know after you’ve read the…