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.

Hello 4/1, The Last Labyrinth has launched!

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I am thrilled publication day for The Last Labyrinth is finally here!!! 💓🌈✨ 📚 March was an amazing month with the ebook being available early as an Amazon First Reads Pick. Thank you to all the readers who have been supporting the book. It has been a dream come true to see it out in the world and with readers. I appreciate everyone who is buying the book, spreading the word to your friends, and leaving reviews. It is now available in print, ebook, and audiobook. 🎉🥳 💓🎼💌

Click here to Order from your favorite retailer. & Signed books are also available at Murder By The Book in Houston *where I’ll be tonight at 6:30pm launching the book. Just click on the “Signed Books” button to order from them.

While celebrating today, I have so many people to thank, starting with my amazing editors Elizabeth Agyemang and Clarence Haynes at 47North and my whole publishing team!! Enormous thanks to my fantastic agent Alec Shane at Writers House, my film rights agents Debbie Deuble Hill at IAG & Tom Ishizuka at Writers House.✨ I have so much gratitude I get to work with such an incredible group. 

Special thanks to the four authors: Heather Webb, Ava Morgan, Constance Sayers, and Diana Giovinazzo who offered advance quotes for The Last Labyrinth’s publication. Their support means the world.

This book is dedicated to my father, Leo Womack, who encouraged me many years ago to research Merlin as a possible story. He would not give up on the idea, so I finally caved and did a deep dive into Merlin’s history and lore. When I discovered Merlin’s twin sister, Gwynedd, I knew I had a story to tell, and I told my father this book would be dedicated to him.

I loved writing this story so much and I’m thrilled I get to share it with you now. I hope you enjoy it.❤️

Cheers!

Gwendolyn

The Last Labyrinth ~ an Amazon editors’ First Reads Pick!

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I am over the moon The Last Labyrinth was selected to be an Amazon editors’ March First Reads pick! Thank you so much! Prime members have the chance to read the book early on Kindle.

The book and audiobook will be out April 1st!

The official teaser for the story: A thrilling and romantic science fiction adventure about a musician who travels back to the 1800s on the currents of sound and falls for an earl as the two must decode the secrets of time and music to save both of their futures. 🎶💓🎉📚💫

The Premonitions Club Student Award

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I’m honored and thrilled to find out The Premonitions Club was awarded the Horace Mann Mock Newbery Medal for Best Book of 2025 by the Horace Mann School in New York City. A committee 33 of middle schoolers voted it as their favorite book of the year.

They shared with me some of their comments why they chose The Premonitions Club:

“I loved The Premonitions Club, and I think it should win the HM Newbery! It is very exciting and made it really hard to put down the book, especially when they were introducing the plot. The characters are totally relatable, and I think everyone would enjoy it.”

“It is a nice romance and it’s quite thrilling.”

“The characters are well written and the plot is enjoyable.”

“I really like The Premonitions Club. It was very much a thriller while also managing to keep a thoughtful plot and message.”

“I finished it in about two sittings. I could not stop reading. The plot is gripping and the characters are really relatable.”

“IT IS AMAZING! I am a really impatient reader but The Premonitions Club has fast plot development.”

“I liked how the author wrote from different perspectives and gave each character a lot of depth and complexity.”

“Womack’s worldbuilding was truly masterful, and the Sci-Fi-esque organizations and terms that she used made me feel like I was there with Liv, Winnie, Jaxon, and Forrester reading the letters. The book was incredibly well-written, and the author did a very good job of making a complex plot accessible and easy to understand.”

“It is extremely captivating. It is also a very relatable book.”

“The Premonitions Club has a cool concept, and the mystery keeps the story moving.”

“I think The Premonitions Club is an AMAZING book. The detail is plentiful and the perceptions technique is very clever.”

Thank you so much, Horace Mann School!

I’m looking forward to Zooming with the students and talking about the story. If you are with a middle school or high school, please check out The Premonitions Club and don’t hesitate to reach out if you’d like me to talk with your class. ❤️

About my next book The Last Labyrinth!

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I’m thrilled to announce my next novel, The Last Labyrinth, is available for preorder! The book will be out 3/24/26. Reserve your copy & please tell your family, friends, and fellow book lovers. It is a great support when you order it in advance. Thank you, I can’t wait to share the story with you in the spring.

Until then, more book news to come! ♥

About the story…

Magellan Brighton may be a musical prodigy with limitless talent, but her soul yearns for something more than playing in concert halls or at weddings. As the world is on the brink of a catastrophic polar shift, she mysteriously vanishes while playing an ancient organ and awakens in 1829. The answers to why lie in a lost diary belonging to Gwynedd, Merlin’s forgotten twin sister.

Rhys Sherwood, the dashing and brooding Earl of Liron, is still haunted by the memory of his father, a scientist and historian who was killed in an experiment gone wrong. When Rhys stumbles upon a strange woman at the center of his estate’s labyrinth, her arrival couldn’t have come at a worse time, interrupting an important house party he’d planned to select his future wife.

Yet the two find themselves inexplicably drawn to each other, and when they discover that Magellan’s musical gifts and the diary are connected, they must uncover its secrets and connection to the key to saving the world. From candlelit medieval abbeys to opulent Renaissance courts in a perilous journey through the past to find the key, Magellan must risk everything and face the sinister forces who want the key for themselves.

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.

THE LAST LABYRINTH – MY NEXT BOOK ON THE HORIZON!

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I am thrilled to announce my next (& 5th!) book, THE LAST LABYRINTH, (previously titled The 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.

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