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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Weekender – Faith Hogan’s Sligo
From The Irish Independent Life Magazine Weekender Faith Hogan’s Sligo Sunday Independent (Ireland) 6 May 2018 In conversation with Sarah Caden My love affair with Sligo started in the early 1990s, when I was transferred there with Penneys. Later, I worked for the Collooney ’98 celebrations. No matter what else was going on in my…
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What Happened To Us?
Okay, so hands up – I’ve been really quiet here recently… I have a good excuse though, or rather a number of them: First off, my poor old trustworthy lap top finally gave up the ghost and I had to replace – any of you who know me, will realise that there is nothing I…
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Eason – talking #UpLit
Obviously, the weather is much too nice to be putting up blog posts, but today was overcast and dull and it is Sunday, so I’ve spent the whole day reading – oh joy! Now, of course, the book is finished (thanks to Marcia Willett for another lovely read!) and I’m pottering and realizing, it’s been…
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This Life – Daily Mail You Magazine
This article appeared in the Daily Mail and was again featured on the Marian Finnuncane Show, it seems everyone loves Holly! This Life Faith Hogan. As far as dogs go, we’ve always been a bit of a divided house. James proudly professed himself to be ‘not a dog person.’ It’s…
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Ballina Launch – Secrets We Keep
I’m so happy to be putting this up on the site – we are having a book launch!!! Yes, finally, Secrets We Keep, my second book is making its way into the bookshops. First stop Ireland, then… This is a book that I just loved writing and for people in my own town, it’s a…