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1 week ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
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2 weeks ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
Hi friends. Leg two of my book tour: done. I’m learning how to manage my energy in a new way—I keep getting the Magician tarot card in readings. It does feel like a new magic power has been discovered! Granted, I’m sitting here writing this under a blanket with a sore shoulder and a croaky voice but I feel energised (in my soul?) My dear friend has just released a new journal called Time to Thrive, all about our different energy zones. It’s helping me work out which ‘zone’ I need to energise.
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3 weeks ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
It’s been a good week. A colleague said she spotted three different people reading my new novel Table For One on the tube. Above all else, this excites me the most.
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3 weeks ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
This post might be too long for email—if it cuts off, you can open it in the app or on the web. I’m writing to you from Villa Lena—a lovely hidden gem and artist residence in the Tuscan countryside (with excellent views, even from the bathroom).
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1 month ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
I’ve always gravitated towards people older than me. I’m nearly 36, and recently I’ve noticed that most of the people I spend time with—or send voice notes to—are either older or younger than me, but rarely my own age. Apart from a handful of friends from school and university, I’m surrounded by intergenerational friendships—a theme that also appears in my most recent novel. Last Summer I met up with a friend in NYC who is 60. I went to stay with a friend last year who is 62.
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1 month ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
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1 month ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
Table For One, my new novel, is out now—in all good book stores. Here is a little three-day diary in case you are curious as to what my publication week has looked like. <3 My recommended retailer is Bookshop.org. 23rd April 2025The day before publication day, I felt jittery and strange. I felt this enormous sense of ‘what have I done??’ and not in a good way. I had just spent four years of my life (on and off) making something that had absolutely zero guaranteed outcome.
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1 month ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME AND EMILY HENRY! To celebrate, we thought it would be fun to publish a conversation between us. Table For One and Great Big Beautiful Lifeare out today. Emily Henry is a phenomenon in the publishing world.
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1 month ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
๐๏ธ 13th May, Second Home, Londonwith discussing creativity & solitude. Tickets (free) here. ๐๏ธ 14th May, Fleet Street Festival of Words, LondonTickets coming soon!๐๏ธ 17th May, Bude Literary Festival, Cornwallwith journalist Natasha Harding. Tickets (ยฃ8.80) here. ๐๏ธ 19th May, Bath Festivalin the Mission Theatre. Tickets (ยฃ20 with book) here. ๐๏ธ 21st May, Salted Books, LisbonNo ticket needed, just swing by!๐๏ธ 27th May, INK82 Bookshop, Londonwith .
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1 month ago | 
thehyphen.substack.com | Emma Gannon
I. My new novel comes out in four days—and underneath all the excitement of publication day, organising my book tour and the sold-out Substack dinner!!—another feeling has been bubbling way quietly. I feel a weird sadness that my book is not going to be mine anymore. Creative grief.Saying goodbye to a project that has kept me company over the past few years. It was my constant thing, keeping me busy, allowing me to escape.