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Helen Corcoran

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http://helencorcoran.com

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Genre

Young Adult, Fantasy, Gay and Lesbian

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January 2009

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Helen Corcoran was born and raised in Ireland, but is more likely to go searching for a werewolf than a crock of gold at the end of a rainbow. She worked as a bookseller for twelve years, with a specific interest in fantasy and YA fiction, which she also writes. She currently lives in Dublin, cultivating a budding caffeine addiction while her book collection threatens to take over her house.

Queen of Coin and Whispers is her debut YA novel. The sequel Daughter of Winter and Twilight will be published in 2023.

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Average rating: 3.68 · 3,475 ratings · 689 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Queen of Coin and Whispers (Queen of Coin and Whispers #1) 3.65 avg rating — 3,067 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daughter of Winter and Twilight (Queen of Coin and Whispers, #2) 3.87 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queen of Coin and Whispers: Prequel Stories 4.06 avg rating — 125 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fight Like a Girl: A Short Story Anthology by April Steenburgh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christy Lennox (Editor), Freya Marske (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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November

I realised that apart from structural housekeeping on the website, I haven’t done a general update here… at all this year.

So. Here be an update!

It’s less than five months to Queen of Coin and Whispers being published! It’s currently available to preorder through two Irish book retailers: Eason and Dubray. (More preorder links to come, likely next month or early 2020.) Please consider preordering

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The Bookshop Woman

by Nanako Hanada

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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Heated Rivalry (Game Changers, #2)

by Rachel Reid

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“She loved me as I loved her, fierce as a bloodied blade.”
― Helen Corcoran, Queen of Coin and Whispers

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“So really, there's no one to blame but myself."
"You were in love. You can't blame yourself for that."
"I can blame myself for being stupid.”
― Helen Corcoran, Daughter of Winter and Twilight

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“But she was not raised to be a queen and she didn't want to be one. And neither of us is to blame.”
― Helen Corcoran, Daughter of Winter and Twilight

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Helen’s Quotes

“Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep.”
― Kiersten White, Paranormalcy

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“Yes, I have a driver's license."

I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool."

"It ranks right up there with lockers. In fact, sometimes I put my license inside my locker, and it's so cool I worry that the whole thing might explode with the sheer coolness of it all.”
― Kiersten White, Paranormalcy

tags: evie, lend, paranormalcy

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“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

tags: beauty, creation, creator, life, poetry

1038 likes

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

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“Winter is coming.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: forcasting, mottos, winter

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