Claire Gallagher
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Claire is a self-published author of contemporary romances, often with a fantasy twist. She also writes much darker, multiple-perspective novels about women facing complex scenarios. Claire is an ex-teacher who now works for a national charity.
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Latest Writings from Claire Gallagher
What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?
Bear With Me! Okay, this is probably a weird analogy but this is how my (bird-brained!) mind works. So, in terms of the title question,...
Finding a Literary Agent
If you want to be traditionally published, the chances are that you’ll need a literary agent. Their job is to sell your book to a...
More Haste, Less Speed?
What Do We Mean by ‘Pace’ And Why Is It Important? We often hear that books are fast-paced, slow burn or ‘saggy in the middle’....
A Christmas Reflection
If you read my Christmas Snippets post, you'll be aware that I suffered a psychotic episode in 2019. This was followed by a long period...
Christmas Snippets
Port and Lemon and Dirty Jokes My nan was the type of woman who couldn’t walk to the shop without stopping at least three times...
Christmas is Cancelled!
When I was eight years old, I auditioned for a part in my school’s Christmas play, Christmas is Cancelled! Despite being a shy child, I...
Love, Christmas
The Long and Short of It I enjoy writing short stories, which is a complete one-eighty compared to how I used to feel. I used...
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good There’s so much to love about writing – the excitement of that initial spark of an idea; the stimulation of the challenge to...
“Take What Resonates, Toss The Rest”
Giving Feedback The title of this post is a sentence that’s often used at the end of a fellow writer’s feedback in the Lab, and...
In Other Words…
I’m Fine Whenever I meet someone new, I try to learn their language. I don’t mean French or German; I mean things like what they...
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