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Gwendolyn Womack is the award-winning USA Today and Los Angeles Times bestselling author of The Fortune Teller, The Memory Painter, and The Time Collector. Up next is her YA debut thriller, The Premonitions Club. Gwendolyn lives in Houston, Texas, collects and photographs kaleidoscopes, and usually can be found either writing or immersed in a good book. See her About page for more details. Sign up for her newsletter The Kaleidoscope Express to receive her book news or follow her on social media or Goodreads.
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Love this one 💗📸 Nighttime kaleidoscope ✨🌙 & writing to this song… #kaleidoscope #amwriting #mandala

Books currently on my reading list. #goingbeyondthelittlewhitebook #LizWorth #dispellingwetiko #paullevy #channeling #johnklimo #TheTarotActivityBook #AndyMatzner #meistereckhart #cfkelley #healingmagic #robinrosebennett #biocentrism #robertlanza #thefortuneteller #gwendolynwomack #northatlanticbooks #benbella #picador

Was tagged by whispers_ofa_reader and figured what the heck! This is my post for #spelltheseasoninbooks for autumn!
A: #aftermath by Kelley Armstrong
U: #unspeakable by Caroline Pignat
T: #tempestuous by Lesley Livingston
U: #anuncertainchoice by Jody Hedlund
M: #thememorypainter by Gwendolyn Womack
And N: The Necklace by Clair McMillan
QOTD: what’s your favourite season?
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How’s everyone’s Tuesday going? I stepped on a Lego! 😣 That is one of the worst pains! •
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📚 Book Review 📚 The Fortune Teller be Gwendolyn Womack was a fun intriguing read. Swipe to read the synopsis. •
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I picked this up on a whim. Not having heard of the author but the beautiful cover and synopsis had me hooked. Semele Cavnow is an intelligent women which adds depth to the story. Then you have the sexy Theo Bossard who you’re not always sure of his intentions. I love how the book switches between an ancient manuscript and present time. There’s enough adventure and mystery to keep the pages turning. 🌟🌟🌟🌟/5 •
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Did you catch the latest episode of Inside the Writer’s Studio?gwendolyn.womack and I recorded LIVE in what I suppose is no longer BookmarksNC’s “new” space. Download and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts!
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💭 If you could have any psychic ability what would you choose?
ARC Review – Thank you camcat_books and storygramtours the gifted ARC of The Premonitions Club.
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I was excited to read this book when I found out the author was inspired to write this book after finding out there was a real Premonitions Bureau that existed from the late sixties to the early nineties. I love historical fiction and YA books, so I thought this might be a fun spin on both. This book did not disappoint!
This was a fun, easy read that had some good twists and turns. I think this is a great book for someone who is beginning to read thrillers or enjoys thrillers that aren’t too extreme. It definitely made me curious to learn more about the real Premonitions Bureau. I also enjoyed The Premonitions Club Handbook at the end of the story. It went a little more in depth on the different types of psychic abilities, which I thought was a lot of fun. There is also a small romantic story on the side that is sweet, but a very small portion of the story line and has zero spice.
*Synopsis*
When Liv Hall and her friends find boxes of letters hidden in her grandfather’s attic, they discover hundreds of psychic predictions addressed to the Premonitions Bureau, a bureau to investigate psychic abilities that mysteriously closed in 1993. As the group reads decades-old premonitions, they stumble on letters from powerful psychics who mailed in their predictions and then disappeared.
A post online about the found predictions alerts a black ops group in charge of the military’s paranormal research, who will do anything to get their hand on the letters and the psychics who wrote them. Liv and her friends now know too much, and they’re directly in the crosshairs. To survive, they’re going to have to rely on each other and the unlikely help of psychics who thought they’d left the dangers of the Bureau behind forever.
*Read if you love*
🔮 YA
⚡Paranormal Thriller
🔮 Psychics
⚡ Teen heroes/heroines
🔮 Multiple POVs
#thepremonitionsclub #gwendolynwomack #storygramtours

It`s a rainy day in Houston, which means it`s perfect weather to stay inside and read a good book. Need some suggestions? Well, you`re in luck! We have a selection of new releases pictured above. Keep reading for some notable picks.
✒️SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE✒️
- We had an excellent launch event last night (4/22) for Gwendolyn Womack`s new book, The Premonitions Club. (Thank you for letting us use your plasma ball for this picture!) This book is highly recommended by Chesli, John, and Kaeleigh. Signed copies of The Premonitions Club as well as her other titles are available now in-store and online.
📕UPCOMING SIGNING📕
- Brad Taylor will be in-store this Saturday (4/26) at 2 pm for his new book, Into the Gray Zone. This is a new entry in the Pike Logan series and is a perfect pick for thriller fans who want an action-packed read! It`s also Indie Bookstore Day, so you should definitely swing by if you can!
📚STAFF PICK📚
- A Wallflower`s Guide to Viscounts and Vice by Manda Collins came out this week and is an excellent read for fans of historical romance. Manda Collins’s books are HIGHLY recommended by John and Brooke!
For more info on the other reads in this post, please check out murderbooks.com.
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Houston book lovers! I will be signing copies of The Premonitions Club at 4 @barnesandnoble stores around town. If you’re in the neighborhood, please stop by and say hello and share with your book club friends. Visit my website linked in my bio to read all about the book! 🔮✨ From Publishers Weekly - “Taut pacing keeps the action moving across various twists and turns, while an inventive premise and a climactic resolution make for a satisfying supernatural adventure.” ✨✨✨✨ #bookstagram #booklover #booksigning #yabooks #barnesandnoble #houstonreads #houstonbookclub #houstonbookstore #wivlahouston

We are pleased to welcome gwendolyn.womack to novelnetwrk!
A THRILLING PAGE-TURNER FROM THE USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FORTUNE TELLER
Travel through time with the touch of a hand.
Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can relive memories across centuries and glean history first-hand. A highly skilled psychometrist, Roan is able to perceive the past of any object he touches. He has spent his life as a voyeur, using his talents to find and sell valuable antiques, but his quiet life in New Orleans is about to change. Stuart, a fellow pyschometrist and Roan’s close friend, has just unearthed several “ooparts”: out-of-place-artifacts that challenge recorded history, including a ring belonging to the seventeenth century mathematician and philosopher René Descartes that was found buried in prehistoric bedrock.
The implications are staggering, but soon after the discovery, Stuart disappears, making him one of several psychometrists who have died mysteriously in recent months or vanished without a trace. When Roan comes across a YouTube video of a young woman who has discovered a priceless pocket watch by “sensing” it, he knows he has to warn her—but will Melicent Tilpin listen? And can Roan find Stuart before it’s too late? The quest for answers will lead Roan and Melicent around the world, and to forgotten corners of history, before it brings them closer to a startling truth and to each other in the latest romantic thriller from Gwendolyn Womack—the bestselling, PRISM Award-winning author of The Memory Painter and The Fortune Teller.
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Prized possession: Books signed by the author. My collection includes friends, acquaintances, professors, strangers, and icons. What authors have signed a book for you? Comment or post pics of your signed books!
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🕰 Welcome to The Time Collector! ⏳✨
A corporate guy with a deep passion for watches, I’ve been collecting mid-tier timepieces for a few years now—appreciating the craftsmanship, mechanics, and stories behind every tick.
This is where I’ll be sharing unboxings, reviews, and my personal journey through the world of horology. If you love watches as much as I do, follow along as we explore timepieces together—one gear at a time!
📸 Featured: A mesmerizing caseback of a customized time piece—where engineering meets art.
🔔 Follow https://www.youtube.com/executivetimecollector
#TheTimeCollector #WatchCollector #WristEnthusiast #Horology #TimepieceLove #MechanicalBeauty #WatchFam

I had the privilege of being an ARC reader for this great YA read. I rated it 4 stars.
Today is the day you can all go get a copy for yourselves!
#releaseday #yascifi #yaparanormal #yathriller #bookreleaseday #gwendolynwomack #thepremonitionsclub #arcreads

#ThePremonitionsClub by Gwendolyn Womack is on tour with Storygram Tours! Follow along this week with these stops.

Audiobook lovers! Thank you for making The Premonitions Club a #1 release 💗🔮✨ @blackstonepublishing assembled an amazing cast for this production! Thank you so much to narrators @baileycarrvoice ✨@hillaryoutloud ✨Tim Campbell ✨& @jamesandersonfoster ✨ and audio producer @jessebickford_15 💗 I am so excited to share the story with everyone! 🎧📚🥳 #audiobooks #audiobooklover #audiobookstagram #booklove #thepremonitionsclub

Consegui sair um pouco da ressaca literária com o romance entre os jovens Bryan e Linz, que perdurou durante séculos. Fui cativada, inicialmente, pela capa (não nego kkk), e acabei me surpreendendo (positivamente!) com a história. 🎨
- Autora: gwendolyn.womack
- Publicado por: editorarecord
#leitura #leitura2021 #romance #editorarecord #gwendolynwomack #opintordememórias #thememorypainter

redondomysticaljoy Thanks for hosting a great book reading with Gwendolyn Womack! #redondobeach #tgif #fridaymood #sunset #thefortunetellerbook #beachlife #fridaynight #booklover #tarot #tarotcards #mystical #magik #goddessvibes #books #tarotreadersofinstagram

The Time Collector by Gwendolyn Womack. (gwendolyn.womack ) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I truly loved this book! I had never read a book about Psychometrists before and I was so intrigued and captured by the concept.
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Our main characters are Roan and Melicent. They are both Psychometrists meaning they have the ability to touch objects and see the imprints of who it belonged to and basically read the history of any given artifact.
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I loved the strong character development, the chemistry between characters, the mystery and puzzle solving was on point, and I thought the pacing of the book was excellently done.
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This book has it all mystery, danger, strong characters, a touch of romance. It draws you in and takes you on a delightful adventure. I enjoyed it so much and can’t wait to recommend it to people when it comes out!
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Thank you Netgalley for my free Advanced Readers copy of this book!
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Obsessed with this new book that comes out tomorrow from author gwendolyn.womack from camcat_books . I love YA personally but even more I love to be able to share it with the teens in my life. Books that are appropriate, engaging and can let you mind sink into place that may be different than the typical.
I especially love the appendix at the end of the book! But you’ll have to get the book to find out what it is!
#premonitions #thepremonitionsclub #auras #tarot #yabooks #bookrecommendations #books #mustreads

Out and about with cool women doing cool things in Houston. Not bad for a Tuesday. Happiest pub day gwendolyn.womack!

Thank you so much @murderbooks for a wonderful book launch last night & to everyone who came! 💗 I’m so thrilled to have the book out in the world. I hope you enjoy it! 🔮✨ #bookstagram #booklaunch #booklove #houstonbookstore #authorevent #wivlahouston #thepremonitionsclub

It’s Historical Fantasy Friday! Each Friday I present an example of Historical Fantasy Fiction I`d love to discuss with you.
Today’s pick is THE MEMORY PAINTER by Gwendoylyn Womack. The historical and fantasy elements of this novel lie in the time travel the characters experience in their dreams. Gripping from the start, and full of lush and sumptuous detail, the story evolves into a deeply romantic tale of love through the ages.
Here’s the blurb from Goodreads: Two lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery.
Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there`s a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills...like the ability to speak obscure languages and an inexplicable genius for chess. All his life, he has wondered if his dreams are recollections, if he is re-experiencing other people`s lives.
Linz Jacobs is a brilliant neurogeneticist, absorbed in decoding the genes that help the brain make memories, until she is confronted with an exact rendering of a recurring nightmare at one of Bryan`s shows. She tracks down the elusive artist, and their meeting triggers Bryan`s most powerful dream yet: visions of a team of scientists who, on the verge of discovering a cure for Alzheimer`s, died in a lab explosion decades ago.
As Bryan becomes obsessed with the mysterious circumstances surrounding the scientists` deaths, his dreams begin to reveal what happened at the lab, as well as a deeper mystery that may lead all the way to ancient Egypt. Together, Bryan and Linz start to discern a pattern. But a deadly enemy watches their every move, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that the past stays buried.
You can find more examples of Historical Fantasy at kadyambrose.com, plus get a free Historical Fantasy short story by signing up for my newsletter.
#historicalfantasy, #historicalfantasybooks, #fantasynovels, #fantasyfiction, #amwriting, #historicalromance, #GwendolynWomack, #romantcy #timetravel #kadyambrose

Beautiful Bookshelves bring happiness 💙💚💛💟 #hapiness #bookshelves #bookstagram #thememorypainter #thewrathandthedawn

Przepowiednia, to książka numer jeden moich czytelniczych wakacji tego roku. Pełna tajemnic opowieść o kobietach, które muszą się zmierzyć z otrzymanym darem i niełatwą rzeczywistością. Niezwykle ciekawa historia, dynamiczna akcja, pełna zwrotów i nieprzewidywalna. Więcej na blogu, zapraszam☺️ wydawnictwokobiece #przepowiednia #książka taniaksiazka #book #instabooks #gwendolywomack #thememorypainter #thefortunetellerbook gwendolyn.womack

Today is a blue day. It’s gloomy and chilly here in Chicago which coincides perfectly with my dreary mood. .
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On a brighter note, I just finished How To Love A Duke in Ten Days by kerriganbyrne and it was phenomenal! I’m now impatiently waiting till 2020 to read the sequel. I really need to start checking release dates before I start a new book. But I don’t regret reading it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!!! I have a full review up on my blog(link in bio). .
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Our #BookOfTheWeek is #ThePremonitionsClub from IAG client Gwendolyn.Womack— out next week!
“The future can be changed. The trick is you have to see it first.
When Liv Hall and her friends find boxes of letters hidden in her grandfather’s attic, they discover hundreds of psychic predictions addressed to the Premonitions Bureau, a bureau to investigate psychic abilities that mysteriously closed in 1993. As the group reads decades-old premonitions, they stumble on letters from powerful psychics who mailed in their predictions and then disappeared.
A post online about the found predictions alerts a black ops group in charge of the military’s paranormal research, who will do anything to get their hands on the letters and the psychics who wrote them. Liv and her friends now know too much, and they’re directly in the crosshairs. To survive, they’re going to have to rely on each other and the unlikely help of psychics who thought they’d left the dangers of the Bureau behind forever.”

#ThePremonitionsClub by Gwendolyn Womack is now available! Pick up this epic new YA supernatural thriller wherever you buy books, and read all about it in our latest Reader Newsletter at the link in our bio.

Visit @thenerdaily (.com 🤓) to read my interview with them for The Premonitions Club! 🔮✨🎉 Thank you for the book spotlight. I’m so excited to share this story with readers. 💌 #bookrelease #booklaunchday #thepremonitionsclub #thenerddaily #authorlife #authorinterview

If anyone is in the mood for a book that will suck you in - look no further 🔮 🌊 📷: delaneybrow #bita #booksintheair #thefortuneteller #gwendolynwomack “From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune.
Semele Cavnow appraises antiquities for an exclusive Manhattan auction house, deciphering ancient texts―and when she discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further, she realizes the manuscript is more than it seems. Both a memoir and a prophecy, it appears to be the work of a powerful seer, describing devastating wars and natural disasters in detail thousands of years before they occurred.
The more she reads, the more the manuscript begins to affect Semele’s life. But what happened to the tarot deck? As the mystery of her connection to its story deepens, Semele can’t shake the feeling that she’s being followed. Only one person can help her make sense of it all: her client, Theo Bossard. Yet Theo is arrogant and elusive, concealing secrets of his own, and there’s more to Semele’s desire to speak with him than she would like to admit. Can Semele even trust him?
The auction date is swiftly approaching, and someone wants to interfere―someone who knows the cards exist, and that the Bossard manuscript is tied to her. Semele realizes it’s up to her to stop them: the manuscript holds the key to a two-thousand-year-old secret, a secret someone will do anything to posses” picador picadorbooks gwendolyn.womack

I know #thefortuneteller is our book of the month but I wanted give some love to #thememorypainter as well. You can win an autographed copy of this book. The link is in our bio.
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#latergram - we had a blast presenting some of our upcoming titles at Bookreporter`s #BEA17 speed dating event and meeting so many great booksellers and bloggers and librarians! gwendolyn.womack millcitywriter scaachi #bookstagram #igreads #amreading #thefortunetellerbook

BOOK TOUR
Happy Wednesday book friends! Have you heard of this book yet? This is a paranormal thriller about a group of teens who discover a box of old psychic predictions addressed to a Premonitions Bureau. The author was actually inspired to write this book by the discovery of a real Premonitions Bureau that used to exist from the late sixties to the early nineties researching psychic predictions. The book dives into what it looks like to tap into the power of the mind, as the main characters learn more about their world, and also themselves after discovering those predictions.
SYNOPSIS:
The future can be changed. The trick is you have to see it first.
When Liv Hall and her friends find boxes of letters hidden in her grandfather’s attic, they discover hundreds of psychic predictions addressed to the Premonitions Bureau, a bureau to investigate psychic abilities that mysteriously closed in 1993. As the group reads decades-old premonitions, they stumble on letters from powerful psychics who mailed in their predictions and then disappeared.
A post online about the found predictions alerts a black ops group in charge of the military’s paranormal research, who will do anything to get their hands on the letters and the psychics who wrote them. Liv and her friends now know too much, and they’re directly in the crosshairs. To survive, they’re going to have to rely on each other and the unlikely help of psychics who thought they’d left the dangers of the Bureau behind forever.
Thank you to camcat_books for sending me a copy of the book.
QOTD: How’s your week going so far?
#thepremonitionsclub #gwendolynwomack #storygramtours #readingcommunity #bookishthings #bookfriends #booktour #loverofbooks #booknerd #readersgonnaread #avidreader

Hello 4/22! Pub day for The Premonitions Club is here! Thank you so much to my publishing team at @camcat_books & @baker_and_taylor and my audiobook publisher @blackstonepublishing 💗🎉
Big thanks to my agent Alec Shane & Writers House & Debbie Deuble Hill at @independentartistgroup & everyone in the publishing community who has supported this book! Thank you @murderbooks for hosting the launch 🥳 If you’re in Houston, come join us at 6:30. And to my family & friends who continue to cheer me on, thank you so much! 💗This picture is me on the beach flying a kite with my son at Thanksgiving. I felt so much gratitude & joy that day chasing a kite with him in sunshine. Sharing this picture with some flying books seemed appropriate for today because it’s time to let The Premonitions Club fly! 💌🪁🔮✨I hope you enjoy it. 📚☀️ #bookstagram #booklover #booklove #booklaunch #booksbooksbooks #yabooks #yabookstagram #thepremonitionsclub

Lovely evening yesterday reading from The Fortune Teller at the El Segundo Library with @mysteriousgalaxyrb 🔮📚and my tarot paintings on display. #tarot #authortalk #thefortunetellerbook #bookreadings #library #love

Join us Wednesday, August 5th at 7pm PST for a fun fiction follow-up to our “What We Keep” book talk! Author Gwendolyn Womack will discuss her latest thriller, The Time Collector, a novel about a psychometrist who has the ability to read the memories within objects. She will also share the story behind her favorite object and how it helped her write the novel.
Special guest and psychic Mary Daisley will be joining us to discuss her use of psychometry in her readings.
To find out more about “The Time Collector” visit Gwendolyn`s website http://www.gwendolynwomack.com
To visit Mary Daisley online and book a personal reading http://www.marydaisley.com
If you have a story you`d like to share during the talk about a personal object or heirloom, please let us know in advance.
Email refdesk@elsegundo.org or call the reference desk at (310) 524-2728 to reserve a spot. We look forward to seeing you there!
This program is sponsored by The California Center for the Book and is a Book to Action Program.
#TheTimeCollector #GwendolynWomack #ElSegundoPublicLibrary #VirtualBookTalk #LibraryPrograms #PublicLibraries #BookToAction

Monday blues stack. Mondays after a holiday are literally the worst. 😂 We stayed out too late yesterday, so we had grumpy, sleepy girls this morning. I am praying for their teachers. I also feel like I`m dragging, but we had a lot of fun with our family yesterday, which is what really matters.
I`m actually reading two of the books in this stack right now, Rebel Witch and The Premonitions Club. Thank you camcat_books and storygramtours for the gifted copy of The Premonitions Club. I am loving both of them so far. I should finish up Rebel Witch today and The Premonitions Club tomorrow.
💭 What books are you reading this week?

Publication Eve! ✨🔮🌙 So excited for tomorrow! I’ll be at @murderbooks at 6:30pm! If you’re in Houston, come join me. #thepremonitionclub #booklove #booklaunch #booklaunchevent

Právě píšu recenzi na tuto knihu. Snad se dostanu do psací nálady a napíšu vše co mám napsat. 😂
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"Some future acts are so inevitable they have been written on the wall of the world." THE FORTUNE TELLER by gwendolyn.womack is on sale now! #thefortunetellerbook #gwendolynwomack #bookstagram #igreads #amreading #romancebooks

Picked up from a discount store based on its premise -- which is that Roan can sense an object’s past by touching it, an ability known as psychometry. Psychometrists are rare, and when they start to go missing after investigating strange objects that are found wildly out of place, like a ring belonging to Descartes that was found in prehistoric stone, Roan realizes he and Melicent, a newly-discovered psychometrist, are in danger.
The synopsis on the back was interesting enough to make me grab it, but I was quite let down by this book. There was so little character depth to Roan or Melicent, despite the fact that we spend the entire book with them and watch them fall in love in a matter of days. The relationships that had more potential, like Melicent trying to connect with her teenage brother, whom she has been taking care of since the death of their mother, felt superficial.
The Time Collector is at its best when describing the vivid flashbacks that psychometrists receive upon touching objects, and I wish Womack had pressed a little harder on this concept. The most moving scene was a flashback to one character’s childhood experience with the horrors of the Korean War, and the subsequent understanding of how that shaped what she chose to do with her life. It was a little disappointing to see her left in the background of a less interesting cast of characters.
This book is a short, fast read -- I got through most of it in one sitting and finished it in less than a day, but it wasn’t the most satisfying.
#thetimecollector #gwendolynwomack #bookstagram
