Gwendolyn Womack

Author of "The Memory Painter" and "The Fortune Teller"

News & Events

Joining Writer Unboxed!

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I’m thrilled to join the team of contributors at Writer Unboxed. I have been a huge of fan of the site for years and have done a few guest posts in the past. It’s the first place I always tell writers to check out when they are looking for online resources. If you’re a writer and haven’t discovered Writer Unboxed yet, you can sign up for the daily blog post, which covers a myriad of topics relating to writing and publishing.

My post today is on my favorite topic – Intuitive Writing. Visit the website to check it out! See you there!

The Premonitions Club is My Next Book!

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I’m thrilled finally to be sharing the news that I have a new book on the horizon, The Premonitions Club! The story is a YA thriller and will being coming out in 2025 with CamCat Books.

About the book:
 
After her beloved grandfather passes away, Liv Hall and her friends find boxes of old letters hidden away in his attic. The letters are psychic predictions addressed to the Premonitions Bureau, a bureau that existed until 1993 tracking people’s would-be premonitions. As the motley crew reads premonitions written by psychics from decades’ past, they stumble upon letters no one was ever supposed to find. They also soon discover the letters are hiding long-buried secrets that put them all at risk. A covert black ops group in charge of the military’s secret paranormal research 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. If they’re going to survive, they’re going to have to rely on some decades-old documents, each other, and the unlikely assistance of a group of people—who thought they’d left the dangers of the Bureau behind forever.  

 
The inspiration for this story happened years ago when I was writing The Fortune Teller and discovered that an actual real Premonitions Bureau existed from 1968-1993 that collected psychic predictions. I immediately envisioned the old letters hidden away in an attic and a group of teenagers finding them. The story grew from there. I’m excited to be debuting my first book for high school readers. I also think adult readers who’ve enjoyed my previous books will enjoy this one too. 
 

If you want to get the most up-to-date info for The Premonition Club’s release, be sure to follow me somewhere on social media. You can also sign up for CamCat Books’ news on their website. As soon as we have a firm publication date I’ll be sure to share it, and I’ll be posting a lot more about the story along with way!  

Cheers,

Gwendolyn

Upcoming Virtual Events

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Saturday, February 13th – I’ll be conducting two writing workshops with Southern California Writers’ Conference:

10:40am Intuitive Writing Workshop & 1pm Perfecting Page One

A summary of both can be found here as well as registration info for the weekend. There are a lot of great classes and workshops being offered.

On March 24th, I’ll be doing a virtual book event at Anderson’s Bookshop with author Constance Sayers to celebrate the release of her second novel The Ladies of the Secret Circus.

Visit the bookstore’s website for more details as the date gets closer. Here is Constance’s website with info about the book. I hope you can join us.

Hello in September! A Virtual Book Event in October

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Hi everyone, it’s hard to believe we’re past summer and into fall now. 2020 continues to be a mire and we’re not through it yet. I hope you all are taking good care.

I wanted to let you know I will be doing a virtual book event on October 8th, 4-5:30pm PST with Adventures By The Book and teaming up with some wonderful mystery writers. It’s free for anyone to sign up. I’ve participated in their Book Bingo series before and they are a lot of fun. I hope you can join us.

Also if you’re looking for some good books to read right now here are my personal recommendations. (I’ve been busy reading nonfiction for research but these four novels I recently gobbled up each in a day.) They were all wonderful book vacations:

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous (connect with the Duchess on Twitter!)

The Once & Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow – coming in October, pre-order!

The Space Between Worlds by Michaiah Johnson

The Last Flight by Julie Clark

Signing off with a few pictures I took from my newest kaleidoscope that I ordered from kaleidoscopeshop.com. If you want to catch my pictures as they happen, I usually share favorites on Instagram or my Facebook author page. ♥

My Virtual Book Talk with El Segundo Library on 8/5/20

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Please mark your calendar & join me on Wednesday, August 5th at 7pm PST for my virtual book talk with El Segundo Library. I will be discussing my latest thriller, The Time Collector, a novel about a psychometrist who has the ability to read the memories within objects. This talk is a fun fiction followup to the library’s previous program for the nonfiction book What We Keep, a collection of stories about peoples’ most treasured objects. I will also share the story behind my favorite object and how it helped me write the novel. 

I’m very excited psychic Mary Daisley will be joining us to discuss her use of psychometry in her readings.

To RSVP – Email refdesk@elsegundo.org OR people can call the library’s Reference Desk phone number at 310-524-2728 to reserve a spot and get the Zoom details. I look forward to seeing you there!

PS – If you have a story you’d like to share during the talk about a personal object or heirloom, please let the library know when you RSVP.

Crop Circles & The 2020 Season

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We’ve entered crop circle season & if you read my last novel, The Time Collector, you understand my fascination. I researched the phenomenon for the book and became hooked with the mystery.

Crop circles appear every year like clockwork, generally between late May through August when the crops in fields are high enough to show the imprint. This is what is called “the season.” There are 2 kinds of crop circles – manmade ones using stomp boards, which damage the crops and are imperfect designs… then there are the other ones, which show geometric perfection that mathematicians can gleam theories and equations. The crops inside those circles are folded over at perfect uniform angles and not harmed.

Here is a good example of a crop circle from 2008 with a mathematical message. The design is the number Pi in geometric form down to 10 decimal points.

Why geometry? Well, for starters geometry is the language of the Universe. When NASA sends messages up into space, they send math.

So maybe we’ve been getting replies for years. Here is a picture of my all-time favorite crop circle, the Empire State Building of crop circles – a breathtaking design spanning almost 800 feet with 409 circles creating three interlocking spirals. This crop circle appeared in 2001 in the middle of the night with wet and windy weather conditions. And to give you a sense of scale, the lines in the fields are the tractor lines for the farmer. This crop circle is about the size of 5 football fields.

Now here we are in 2020 in the midst of a year we never could have imagined, and crop circles are starting their season once more. We’ve had three crop circles so far. The first one to appear on May 28th was highly unusual.

More details on each circle can be found at my favorite crop circle website, temporarytemples.co.uk. There is also an archive where you can click on a previous year and see all the circles they photographed.

I hope this phenomenon will gain more attention this year. Crop circles are really one of the most fantastical mysteries that we continue to live with and generally ignore. So let’s see what June, July and August will bring. I’ll be sure to share any images on Facebook and Twitter as I find them.

In closing here is a short 3 minute clip on YouTube from Ancient Aliens that touches on some of the highlights & and below is a screenshot where you can see people standing inside a circle. I plan to do that someday.

The Premonitions Club Launch!

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Hello!! Yesterday, 4/22, was the release date for The Premonitions Club!!! My dear friend, Beth Szymkowski, who the book is dedicated to, came to town to celebrate with me. I had a wonderful book launch at Murder By The Book in Houston. Thank you to everyone who came! 

I had everyone sign the front and back inside covers of my book (like a yearbook) to have as a keepsake for the night. Before the Q&A, we also did a little numerology and everyone figured out their life number and destiny number. It was pretty hysterical how bad at math we all were.

Signed copies are now available at Murder By The Book, in store & online along with my other books.

& I’m thrilled to say The Premonitions Club is now available everywhere books are sold!

For audiobook lovers, my publisher assembled an amazing cast. If you haven’t gotten yours yet, take a listen. The book is narrated by Bailey Carr, Hillary Huber, Tim Campbell & James Anderson Foster, and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with listeners.

Cheers!

PS – Beth & I took the picture of the book with the plasma ball. It’s one of my favorites.

LADY OF THE LABYRINTH – MY NEXT BOOK ON THE HORIZON!

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I am thrilled to announce my next (& 5th!) book, LADY OF THE LABYRINTH, will be published by 47North next spring! ? Sharing the announcement from Publishers Weekly below. Special thanks to my agent Alec Shane at Writers House and my editor Elizabeth Agyemang. I can’t wait to share this story with you. It has been years and years in the making and the time is finally here. ??

The Premonitions Club is on NetGalley

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Bookstammers, bookbloggers, and book reviewers, The Premonitions Club ARC is available on NetGalley! Request an advanced copy for review. Please share with fellow book lovers who you think would enjoy the book, thank you!

About the story:

Early Reviews:

Goodreads ARC Giveaway for The Premonitions Club! ?

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CamCat Books will be giving away 10 copies of The Premonitions Club ARC on Goodreads!

Follow me on Goodreads to be notified when the giveaway goes live & sign up to win a copy! Begins 3/1 and closes for entries 3/15. Open to the U.S. and Canada.

Good luck to everyone entering! ?

The book and audiobook is also available for preorder everywhere if you want to reserve your copy now. It will be in stores 4/22/25.

& To hear my latest book news, signup for my newsletter, the Kaleidoscope Express.

A Message from Santa’s Elf – The Perfect Gift To Give Yourself This Year

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Happy Holidays! As we head into the New Year, I thought it is the perfect time to do this post. It’s not about books but about a health journey I’ve been on. This year two things have super charged my life that I wanted to share with you because I think it’s the perfect gift to give yourself. (I’m so glad I did it!)

The first one is the rebounder trampoline. You know those little trampolines that were so popular in the 90s? Well in my extensive “writerly” research :-), I found out NASA considers the rebounder trampoline the best exercise on the planet. Bouncing on it for 10-minutes is the same as a 30-minute run but without any of the stress on your body. Jumping and getting a momentary suspension of gravity has an incredible positive effect on your cells. It’s good for joint pain, body swelling, hormone balancing, boosting your metabolism… I could go on. And doing a more sedate “health bounce,” where you keep your feet on the trampoline but still bounce for 3-5 minutes, completely flushes your lymphatic system and boosts your white blood cell count and immune system for hours after you’ve done it.

I got mine back in March and jump it every morning. I’m absolutely addicted to it. Here’s the one I got from Amazon. This does have an affiliate link. I truly can’t recommend it enough! I tell everyone about it when I have the chance. I got this particular brand because it has the top mat extended to the very edge so your foot won’t fall through one of the elastic openings. I also got the 48″ so I can do jumping jacks etc. without worry of falling off an edge. I am clueless when it comes to assembling anything, so I recommend getting the assembly. (I had someone on Taskrabbit to come assemble mine. It took him less than hour.)

The second thing is a vibrating plate that you stand on. Again NASA uses this on their astronauts to increase bone density. The benefits of standing on a plate are enormous. It flushes your lymphatic system as well, strengthens your bones, speeds up your metabolism, and can alleviate aches and pains. I’m also on my plate every morning without fail. I jump on the trampoline for at least 15 minutes and I get on the plate for 15. Both are invigorating.

Here is the plate I got on Amazon. There are plenty of choices out there, but this one seemed pretty basic and wasn’t too expensive. It also has arm band attachments if you want to work out your arms while you do it.

So if one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to get healthier, these two things, hands down, will do more for you than you can imagine. They make great gifts too! (Okay maybe not the trampoline, lol, since it is big.)

It’s been said, Health is the greatest form of wealth, and I couldn’t agree more. I wish you an incredibly healthy New Year.

Cheers,

Gwendolyn

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