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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Top Twenty Bestsellers!
It’s been a bit hectic around the Hogan house of late, all for the good. It seems juggling three books – one writing, one editing and Secrets We Keep being transformed into trade paperback is not quite enough to keep me on my toes. Over the last few weeks, the Girl I Used To Know…
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Highlights Anyone?
I can’t quite believe I’m writing this, and perhaps a little late, but something special happened at the end of 2017. In the world of reviewers and bloggers, each year the bloggers list their best of. We get to see what really tickled our favourite reviewers and very often, it’s an opportunity to go back…
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Daily Mail – You Magazine -This Life
I wrote the following piece about love and marriage for The Daily Mail (25th November 2017). This Life Faith Hogan My wedding day was probably the best-kept secret ever! It was not that we feared being over-run by paparazzi, nor indeed was there any legal obstacle to our union. No, rather it was…
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Blog Tour for The Girl I Used To Know
At this point it almost feels like I’m at home with Karen on her blog. I really couldn’t be in a nicer spot, Karen has the very best books around! She was kind enough to come on board for the Blog Tour for THE GIRL I USED TO KNOW and she invited me to write…
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UpLit – Day One of the Blog Tour for #Tgiutk
So, I know I’ve been rather quiet here for the last month, but the lovely Melanie at Aria Fiction has organised a great blog tour for the launch of The Girl I Used To Know, so I’ll be popping up everywhere and anywhere in the next few weeks and trying to keep a track of…