20 Questions with Shannon O'Gorman, Author of 'Rose Hawthorne: The Irish Wanders' #RoseHawthorne #20Questions

Today's guest is Shannon O'Gorman, author of the mystery, Rose Hawthorne: The Irish Wanders. Shannon is here today to answer 20 questions about her life, writing and goals.

 

1. Are you a morning writer or a night writer?  Definitely a night writer

2. Do you outline or are you a pantster?  No outline… a panster for sure.

3. Which comes first – plot or character? Characters

4. Noise or quiet when working on your manuscript? Quiet!

5. Favorite TV show? Better Call Saul

6. Favorite type of music? Old rock and roll

7. Favorite craft besides writing? Cooking

8. Do you play a musical instrument? Piano

9. Single or married? Married

10. Children or no? 1 daughter

11. Pets? A dog named Sandy

12. Favorite place to write? On the bed

13. Favorite restaurant? Anything Japanese

14. Do you work outside the home? Retired

15. What was the name of the last movie you saw? Top Gun Maverick

16. Favorite outdoor activity? Walking

17. Pet peeve? Loud cars

18. Your goal in life? To walk another Camino

19. Your most exciting moment? On top of Machu Piccu

20. The love of your life?

Shannon O’Gorman is originally from Winnipeg, Canada and has been living in San Jose, California for the past 10 years enjoying the sunshine. She completed a BA in English at the University of Manitoba, with a specialization in Creative Writing. After university, the travel bug bit her hard and she spent the next 10 years traveling the world and supporting herself with odd jobs ( lots of fruit picking, waitressing, temp. work and ESL teaching). She spent many years in London, a few years in Israel on a moshav, and several years in Hong Kong. And then she found herself in Japan, where she married, had a daughter and ran an English school with her husband for 10 years. Throughout this time she kept diaries and wrote many short stories, some of which were published in small ex-pat magazines. Eventually, she returned to Canada and taught international students at U of Winnipeg, and newcomers to Canada at a technical college and was a teacher trainer for new ESL teachers. One day her husband said, “Guess what I got a job in California…” and not long after they packed up the car and drove south.  She taught ESL again in the USA, and one day decided to walk the Camino de Santiago a 500 mile walk across France to Spain and wrote a book about it, The Camino de Santiago: One Wanderful Walk, and found her love for writing again. She also completed a book of short stories about her travels, Some Wanderful Times and started a book series featuring the character of Rose Hawthorne. The first book of the series is Seven Wanders: The Ancient Wanders. Last year she retired from teaching, and is enjoying writing every day with her dog at her feet.

Her latest book is the mystery, Rose Hawthorne: The Irish Wanders.

You can visit Shannon at Facebook and Instagram. 

 

Rose Hawthorne: The Irish Wanders follows Rose, a celebrity author in her early seventies, who dislikes the limelight but does like Hermes scarfs, round violet sunglasses, and old colonial hotels. One day, she receives a letter asking her to visit Newgrange, Ireland and discover something that has been hidden there for a thousand years.

She asks her granddaughter Samantha to accompany her, but she hadn’t expected her to continually post photos of their progress on her Instagram account. An encounter with an old love and an unexpected discovery leads Rose deeper into the past, where she finds she must make a hard decision about her future.

Book Information

Release Date: March 16, 2022

Publisher:  Independent

Soft Cover: ISBN: 978-1736801079; 200 pages; $10.99; Free on Kindle Unlimited

Amazon: https://amzn.to/39a7pub