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If you are one of the wonderful people who have purchased one of my books I would like to give you a big virtual hug. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
As you may know I am a cancer vixen. To date, I have beaten cancer a grand total of nine times. I was diagnosed for the tenth time in October of 2015. I have just begun another round of chemotherapy to stamp out the nasty tumours in my neck, shoulder and on my head. I have tried two forms of chemotherapy in the last year but neither have managed to get rid of the cancer. The latest bout of chemo is helping but I'm still battling. I was on parp inhibitor tablets and I'm crossing my fingers and toes that chemotherapy helps to reduce the tumours and then I will go back on the tablets. It's always comforting to have a plan of action. Options for me are very scarce at this point but I'm still here and still fighting. I am taking things one day at a time. That's all I can do.
New treatments come out all the time and I'm hoping that more options will open up for me soon. I will continue to fight the good fight. Where there is life there is hope.
I certainly wouldn't recommend cancer to a friend, but I have turned the worst part of my life into what is undoubtedly the best. You see boredom from being made sit in a bed led to a wonderful thing. I began to write. Once I started I knew this was the missing part of the jigsaw to make my life complete. My first novel Designer Genes came out in 2009. Since then I've written several more fiction novels including The Heart of Winter, The Summer Guest, The Secrets We Share, Perfect Wives and Driving Home for Christmas.
My last novel was an Irish Times Number One bestseller called The Wedding Promise and it is on book shelves now! My new novel is called Letters to my daughters and it will be released at the end of February. I cannot wait to share it with you.
As I've had cancer a silly amount of times I felt it was my civic duty to write about that.
So using my own words I told my story in Talk to the Headscarf but that book only went as far as diagnosis number six, so I had to add on. The fresh new updated book is called All To Live For I also put in tips and hints that I've picked up along the way. Just those kind of woman to woman things that oncologists don't have time to talk about and probably haven't had the reason to know about!
I hope it helps.
I know it's about cancer but I promise you it's not a misery memoir. I laughed out loud while writing it and I'm hoping you'll find it uplifting too. It's pretty much all the stuff you've always wanted to know about cancer - but didn't want to ask. I tell it like it is. The best part is that I've survived - so rest assured, there's a happy ending. I know I'm so lucky to be a winner, but I'm eager to show others affected by cancer that positive things can and do happen. Cancer doesn't always win people! I am living proof of that. I hope some of the things that helped me might help you too. So that's All to live for out world wide now.
I adore writing and hope you all enjoy reading my books. At the moment I am down to one hand. The cancer in my shoulder is preventing me from being able to use my right hand. Luckily I'm left-handed, but I sincerely hope that the chemotherapy will obliterate the nasty tumours that are causing me this trouble. At the moment I'm using a dictating device to help me type. Come hell or high water I will continue to write! Sure, what else would I be doing? I may as well make myself useful while avoiding going insane. That's always a better option right?
Please come and join me on Twitter @MsEmmaHannigan and Facebook (Author Emma Hannigan) or send me a message using the form on my contact page. I love to hear from readers. Your letters are confidential and I would never share them with a third party.
For any business requests please kindly contact my agent Sheila Crowley only at:
crowleyoffice@curtisbrown.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7393 4288
Thanks again for stopping by, I wish for health and happiness for every one of you and send you love and light where ever you may be!
Emma x
© 2017, All Rights Reserved ¦ emmahannigan.com
As you may know I am a cancer vixen. To date, I have beaten cancer a grand total of nine times. I was diagnosed for the tenth time in October of 2015. I have just begun another round of chemotherapy to stamp out the nasty tumours in my neck, shoulder and on my head. I have tried two forms of chemotherapy in the last year but neither have managed to get rid of the cancer. The latest bout of chemo is helping but I'm still battling. I was on parp inhibitor tablets and I'm crossing my fingers and toes that chemotherapy helps to reduce the tumours and then I will go back on the tablets. It's always comforting to have a plan of action. Options for me are very scarce at this point but I'm still here and still fighting. I am taking things one day at a time. That's all I can do.
New treatments come out all the time and I'm hoping that more options will open up for me soon. I will continue to fight the good fight. Where there is life there is hope.
I certainly wouldn't recommend cancer to a friend, but I have turned the worst part of my life into what is undoubtedly the best. You see boredom from being made sit in a bed led to a wonderful thing. I began to write. Once I started I knew this was the missing part of the jigsaw to make my life complete. My first novel Designer Genes came out in 2009. Since then I've written several more fiction novels including The Heart of Winter, The Summer Guest, The Secrets We Share, Perfect Wives and Driving Home for Christmas.
My last novel was an Irish Times Number One bestseller called The Wedding Promise and it is on book shelves now! My new novel is called Letters to my daughters and it will be released at the end of February. I cannot wait to share it with you.
As I've had cancer a silly amount of times I felt it was my civic duty to write about that.
So using my own words I told my story in Talk to the Headscarf but that book only went as far as diagnosis number six, so I had to add on. The fresh new updated book is called All To Live For I also put in tips and hints that I've picked up along the way. Just those kind of woman to woman things that oncologists don't have time to talk about and probably haven't had the reason to know about!
I hope it helps.
I know it's about cancer but I promise you it's not a misery memoir. I laughed out loud while writing it and I'm hoping you'll find it uplifting too. It's pretty much all the stuff you've always wanted to know about cancer - but didn't want to ask. I tell it like it is. The best part is that I've survived - so rest assured, there's a happy ending. I know I'm so lucky to be a winner, but I'm eager to show others affected by cancer that positive things can and do happen. Cancer doesn't always win people! I am living proof of that. I hope some of the things that helped me might help you too. So that's All to live for out world wide now.
I adore writing and hope you all enjoy reading my books. At the moment I am down to one hand. The cancer in my shoulder is preventing me from being able to use my right hand. Luckily I'm left-handed, but I sincerely hope that the chemotherapy will obliterate the nasty tumours that are causing me this trouble. At the moment I'm using a dictating device to help me type. Come hell or high water I will continue to write! Sure, what else would I be doing? I may as well make myself useful while avoiding going insane. That's always a better option right?
Please come and join me on Twitter @MsEmmaHannigan and Facebook (Author Emma Hannigan) or send me a message using the form on my contact page. I love to hear from readers. Your letters are confidential and I would never share them with a third party.
For any business requests please kindly contact my agent Sheila Crowley only at:
crowleyoffice@curtisbrown.co.uk
+44 (0)20 7393 4288
Thanks again for stopping by, I wish for health and happiness for every one of you and send you love and light where ever you may be!
Emma x
© 2017, All Rights Reserved ¦ emmahannigan.com
