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 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...

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...

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