I’m excited to share the news readers can request an early review copy of The Premonitions Club at BookSirens.com! Click on the image to go to the book’s page.
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Book News
The Premonitions Club Cover!
I’m thrilled to be sharing the cover for The Premonitions Club, exquisitely designed by Maryann Appel with CamCat Books. ❤️
Here is a link to the novel on the publisher’s website. The hardcover is now available for preorder with retailers (the pub date is 4/22/25) and the ebook & audiobook links will be showing up online soon.
About the story:
When Liv and her friends stumble on old boxes filled with letters of psychic predictions that were never meant to be found, they are put on the radar of dangerous people who will do anything to get their hands on those premonitions.
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.
I can’t wait to share this book with you! In the meantime, to keep up with my upcoming book news, be sure to signup for my newsletter, The Kaleidoscope Express, or follow me on Instagram or Facebook.
Cheers!
Gwendolyn
The Premonitions Club – It’s official!
Sharing the Publishers Marketplace announcement for the book. More news to come!
The Premonitions Club is My Next Book!
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
My Virtual Book Talk with El Segundo Library on 8/5/20
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.
New Orleans ~ The City Behind The Time Collector
As I eye the calendar waiting for pub day, I wanted to share my inspiration behind choosing New Orleans as The Time Collector’s central location and share some pictures from my research trip for the book.
When I started imagining The Time Collector, I knew right away I wanted to have Roan, the main character, be from New Orleans. There was no question in my mind New Orleans was his city. Roan is a psychometrist and has the ability to read the past within objects, and I couldn’t imagine a better place for a psychometrist to have grown up than a city steeped in time.
In late 2016 I had just finished edits on The Fortune Teller and it was time to start working on The Time Collector. I’d been to New Orleans twice before in my life. The first time was when I was a young girl, around age 10 or 11. When I was growing up, my mother loved to go antique hunting and find old furniture to restore. We took a family vacation to New Orleans one summer and stayed right in French Quarter. I remember spending several days going in and out of antique shops and out-of-the-way furniture warehouses. For most of my childhood I actually spent many a Saturday or Sunday going to antique stores and flea markets in Texas. All the old objects would ignite my imagination and I would wander around, picking them up, wondering about who had owned them before. Perhaps the seeds for the story began even then.
The second time I went to New Orleans was about fifteen years ago with my husband for the wedding of our dear friends, John & Jackie. In the fall of ’16 when I started writing The Time Collector, I knew I’d need to go back for research. John & Jackie were now living there and invited me to come stay with them. I flew out in December. Before the trip I’d literally written the opening chapters right up to the page where Roan arrives back in New Orleans from his trips to El Paso and LA. I felt I needed to go to New Orleans before I could write any further.
I spent several days touring all over the city with the best guide possible. Jackie is originally from New Orleans and the city is her stomping ground. We spent three days in her car going everywhere.
I would grill her with questions, furiously taking notes and countless pictures. We must have visited most of the antique stores in the city.
With each day I started to envision Roan’s childhood, his storefront, his warehouse… I walked all through the French Quarter and up and down Magazine Street. One evening we caught a wedding line celebration heading down the street, so magical. You can see the bride holding the white umbrella.
After the trip I came home and started writing the New Orleans chapters the very next day. Special thanks to these wonderful two for all the inspiration and help. Here we are together on my last night.
The Time Collector is less than a month away from publication, and I’ll be celebrating the book’s launch in New Orleans on April 16that Garden District Book Shop. I’m so excited to be going back. If you’re in the city please come & join me at 6pm.
And if you haven’t been to New Orleans yet, I highly recommend taking a trip to experience the rich tapestry of culture, art and music. The city is brimming with history that feels tangible. Cheers!
PS: Coming soon, I’ll be sharing Jackie’s personal gumbo recipe. Gumbo is also one of my favorite dishes.
