Claire Gallagher

Claire is a self-published author of contemporary romances, often with a fantasy twist.

Secrets

1. My guilty pleasure is listening to 'Escape' by Rupert Holmes (aka The Pina Colada Song).

2. I was once rejected by a dolphin.

3. I get coat hanger rage. Nought to a hundred in less than a second!

Claire Gallagher is known inside the Colony as Claire G

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When You’re Not Reading Me

1. Fractured by Dani Atkins

Published as Then and Always in North America. I cried my eyes out at the ending.

2. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

The film is great too!

3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A masterpiece.

What's On My Bedside Table

1. A water bottle.

Stay hydrated, folks!

2. Post-it notes and a pen.

For when the muse strikes in the night.

3. A stack of novels.

Did you ever doubt this?

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Writing Reflections

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...

It’s Not the End of the World

Well, it sort of is… I’ve been fascinated by dystopian fiction for many years – any story which explores a dramatic change in the way...

Writing Emotion

Out of the Mouths of Babes This post was inspired by a comment made by my eleven-year-old son. It was prompted by his question regarding...

Experimenting

Be Brave I’ve been writing seriously for years. The more I wrote (and read the work of other authors), the more I experimented with different...

Journeys and the Importance of Writing Communities

My Writing Journey During my formative years, I had spells when I thought I’d like to be an author when I grew up (if we...

Play to Your Strengths

Be Up-Front Agent Pete often says that writers should play to their strength and put it front and centre in the opening of their novel....

Titles – What’s in a Name?

A Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet, Right? The Silence of the Lambs, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Elinor Oliphant is Completely...

Writing ‘Rules’

Don’t Start with a Character Waking Up, Looking in the Mirror, or with a Hangover On Pop-Up Submissions, we received a lot of openings like...

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