Welcome
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 am currently having 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 it. I started a new one on March 27th 2017, it's IV form again and I am hoping it works. The good news is that there are lots of options for me going forward. The face of cancer treatment is changing for the better and I am blessed to be in a position to avail of it.
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 current novel is an Irish Times Number One bestseller called The Wedding Promise and it is now on Irish book shelves and will hit the UK and world wide markets at the end of June 2017.
As I've had cancer a silly amount of times I felt it was my civic duty to write about that.
So using ordinary words I told my story in Talk to the Headscarf. 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. There will be an updated version of this book out in August. The new title All To Live For will reawaken my story as I've added the continuation of my battle. In the previous memoir I'd only had cancer five or six times - so last year! So this brings me up to date. I've also added a section with some 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 some of the things that helped me might help you too. So that's All to live for out world wide at the end of August.
I adore writing and hope you all enjoy reading my books. I am currently doing the final edits on my eleventh novel and I've started on my twelfth. Sure, what else would I be doing, especially seeing as I'm down with infection after infection courtesy of my current chemotherapy. I may as well make myself useful 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 am currently having 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 it. I started a new one on March 27th 2017, it's IV form again and I am hoping it works. The good news is that there are lots of options for me going forward. The face of cancer treatment is changing for the better and I am blessed to be in a position to avail of it.
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 current novel is an Irish Times Number One bestseller called The Wedding Promise and it is now on Irish book shelves and will hit the UK and world wide markets at the end of June 2017.
As I've had cancer a silly amount of times I felt it was my civic duty to write about that.
So using ordinary words I told my story in Talk to the Headscarf. 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. There will be an updated version of this book out in August. The new title All To Live For will reawaken my story as I've added the continuation of my battle. In the previous memoir I'd only had cancer five or six times - so last year! So this brings me up to date. I've also added a section with some 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 some of the things that helped me might help you too. So that's All to live for out world wide at the end of August.
I adore writing and hope you all enjoy reading my books. I am currently doing the final edits on my eleventh novel and I've started on my twelfth. Sure, what else would I be doing, especially seeing as I'm down with infection after infection courtesy of my current chemotherapy. I may as well make myself useful 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
