Emily Hepditch

Come say hello! 🙂

Emily Hepditch, author of The Woman in the Attic, Alone on the Trail, and Sweater, will be signing copies of her books today at Chapters St. John's from 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Come by and say hi if you’re out and about!

I am so excited to announce that both my novels, The Woman in the Attic and Alone on the Trail are officially available as audiobooks through Kobo Audiobooks.

Narrated by incredible Newfoundland actors such as Shawn Majumder, Krystin Pellerin, and Jacquelyn French, Kobo Audiobooks has brought my stories to life in a whole new way. I am so excited to share this news and cannot wait to hear your thoughts.

To celebrate their release, I will be giving away some codes for free copies of the audiobooks. For a chance to win, like and share this post. I will be doing a draw for a chance to win one of three free audio copies of either Alone on the Trail or The Woman in the Attic!

Thank you endlessly to the team at Kobo who have once again made my dreams come true. I am so excited!

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/audiobook/the-woman-in-the-attic-1

This weekend I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to attend the Toronto International Festival of Authors to celebrate the release the Audiobooks of my novels. To say the experience was a dream come true would be an understatement. I want to say a huge thank you so much to TIFA for having me and for facilitating two excellent panels, and to my incredible team at Rakuten Kobo for everything you have done for my stories thus far. I feel profoundly lucky that I get to wake up each morning and do what I love most.

I am combusting with excitement. I couldn’t be more thrilled that these incredible actors will be bringing my books to life in AUDIOBOOK FORMAT!! Thank you so much to Rakuten Kobo for your support in making this project (and so much more) happen. Keep an eye out for Alone on the Trail and The Woman in the Attic as audiobooks, exclusively through Kobo Audiobooks!

(I only wish 12 year old Emily, sleeping with her journal under her pillow, could see that her wildest dreams would come true. Thank you, from the very bottom of my heart!!)

Tomorrow marks the release date of my third book, and first children’s book, Sweater. This is one of the very most exciting and special projects I have ever worked on and I am over the moon to get to share it with you. I cannot wait to hold a copy in my hands.

Sweater will be available through Indigo/Chapters/Coles locations, Costco St. John’s, and many local bookstores. I hope your littles enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. ❤️

This is incredible. Congratulations, Jack. This kid is going places!!

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I am over the moon to announce that my first children’s book, Sweater, will officially be out in the world this spring!

This story is dedicated to all the grandkids with heaps of itchy sweaters in their closets—and all to the Nannies who knit them. ☺️

Stay tuned for more info! 😉

I am so excited to announce that The Woman in the Attic will be translated into Arabic in 2022! I am so grateful and excited.

What an honour it is to know my work will be translated into one of my favourite languages! ❤️📚

Flanker Press is very happy to announce that world Arabic translation rights for The Woman in the Attic by Emily Hepditch have been acquired by The Mahrousa Center For Publishing, based in Cairo, Egypt. Emily Hepditch’s thrilling debut novel has consistently appeared in the top 5 bestsellers list in Newfoundland and Labrador since its release in April 2020. That’s 18 months in a row! Other recognition includes:

- Winner of the Rakuten Kobo 2021 Emerging Writer Prize - Mystery
- Gold Medal winner for the Independent Publisher Book Awards in Canada East - Regional Fiction
- Winner of the NL Reads 2021 competition (and winner of the Margaret Duley Award for Fiction)
- Finalist for the Crime Writers Canada Awards - First Crime Novel
- Long-listed for the BMO Financial Group Winterset Award

We’d like to thank Livres Canada Books for their assistance. And finally, congratulations to Emily Hepditch on another milestone in her writing career! The Arabic edition of The Woman in the Attic will be released in 2022.

Thank you so much Atlantic Books Today for your constant support! ❤️

Today's featured title in the Atlantic Books Today Holiday Gift Guide is the award winning, debut novel from Emily Hepditch, The Woman in the Attic. Since its release in the spring of 2020, it has been racking up rave reviews and industry accolades, some of which include:

- Winner of the 2021 competition (and winner of the Margaret Duley Award for Fiction)

- Long-listed for the BMO Winterset Award

- Finalist for the Crime Writers Canada First Crime Novel award

- Gold Medal winner for the Independent Publisher Book Awards in Canada East-Best Regional Fiction

- Winner of the Rakuten Kobo 2021 Emerging Writer Prize - Mystery

- #1 Bestseller in Atlantic Books Today, and has appeared in the top 5 sellers for 16 months in a row.

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Talk about a Halloween treat! 🎃👻

I am thrilled to announce that The Woman in the Attic is now available at all Costco stores in the Atlantic provinces! This is an absolute dream come true and I could not be more excited. Thank you everyone for all the support. I cannot believe the little life this book has taken on and I feel so grateful to get to share it with you all. 📚

Have a fun and spooky weekend!

It was so much fun to meet the wonderful staff of Chapters Fredericton. This is the first time I’ve seen my books outside the province…surreal and amazing! There are a couple of signed copies available, so if you’re in the Fredericton area and looking for new reads, maybe check out these two. 😉

Hey Fredericton, meet Emily Hepditch.

We had the pleasure of local author Emily Hepditch and her parents visit our store, so that her parents could proudly purchase their own copies of her books in-person. While she was here, Emily also kindly signed copies of her 2020 novel "The Woman In The Attic" and her 2021 novel "Alone On The Trail".

Emily Hepditch is an award-winning author from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland, who has newly relocated to Fredericton after graduating from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Emily's bestselling debut novel "Woman In The Attic" has won the 2021 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer's Prize for Mystery. We want to extend a huge congratulations to you Emily Hepditch for this well-deserved award.

Keep an eye on our page for upcoming author signings in-store for your chance to meet the author and purchase your own signed copies!

I think it’s safe to say Little Emily was meant to write novels, not poems. 😂

I am in shock. All I can say is thank you. Not in my wildest dreams would I have imagined I would hit the #1 and #2 spots consecutively, or be in the top 5 for eleven months straight. Life. Is. Wild.

April 2021: Top Five Local Sellers From Chapters-Coles-Indigo In Each Atlantic Province - Atlantic Books Top reads of Atlantic Canadians this month!

So very thankful ❤️

It has arrived! So excited to read this highly anticipated local thriller “Alone on the Trail” by Emily Hepditch!

About
From the #1 bestselling author
of The Woman in the Attic
Four best friends. One wrong turn. One shack hidden in the mountains.

To celebrate their graduation from university, Sadie, Julie, Morgan, and Jonah decide to spend a week backcountry hiking in western Newfoundland, tackling a remote route through the Long Range Mountains. Zealous, rambunctious, and overconfident, the group embarks on their self-proclaimed adventure of a lifetime in Gros Morne National Park.

But alone on a trail with nowhere to hide, secrets begin to ooze through the cracks of their bond. The farther into the forest the group moves, the more they drift apart, until their friendship becomes as difficult to navigate as the look-alike trees. And when they stumble upon an illegal hunting shack, the companions suddenly find themselves in possession of dangerous knowledge. Injured, separated, and being hunted by expert poachers, the friends must find a way to get back home before they succumb to the dangers of the trail-and the dangers posed by one another.

Alone on the Trail is a riveting merger of adventure and drama that will keep you reading late into the night-and make you think twice before wandering, unprepared, into the Newfoundland wilderness.

‘Twas the night before book release, and all through the house...

Emily was bouncing off the walls with excitement 😆.

My new thriller, Alone on the Trail, will be out in the world for purchase tomorrow. I am so excited, nervous, and proud to share this book with you all. I will be spending the majority of tomorrow signing books, so if you’d like a signed copy, please get your orders into Flanker Press and we’ll look after you! I hope to meet many of you in person when stores can safely reopen for signings.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love and enthusiasm for The Woman in the Attic, and now for my second baby. Sharing my work with the world is one of the (absolute) scariest parts of being an author, but the support I feel from this incredible community is overwhelmingly wonderful. So thank you, thank you, thank you! Here’s hoping I catch a wink of sleep tonight. 😜

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I am beyond honoured that my short story “The Fare” was selected as a winner in this year’s Arts and Letter’s competition, alongside my fellow Flanker Press Ltd. author Ida Linehan-Young. This contest is close to my heart, and I have entered many times. Congratulations to all the winners and entrants.

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Can’t believe it has almost been a year and virtual book launch #2 is ago 🤪.

Can’t wait to share this book with you all! Stay safe, everyone!

I have some very exciting news to share...

My new book, Alone on the Trail, is available for preorder through Indigo and the Flanker Press website!

I am so excited to share this book with the world. Available on April 14th! Stay tuned for more information. ❤️

Thrilled doesn’t cut it! From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who voted for The Woman in the Attic. I am lucky beyond measure and so very excited.

Thank you to the NLPL for all their hard work with NL Reads and their commitment to promoting local authors. Another huge thanks to CBC for their generous support of the literary community!

This year has been an absolute whirlwind and I couldn’t be happier. Thanks again for the support, everyone.

If you were listening in on the CBC St. John's Morning Show this morning you got to hear the announcement firsthand, but we are excited to announce that the winner of NL Reads 2021 is Emily Hepditch for her novel The Woman in the Attic!
Published by Flanker Press Ltd. and championed by its Reader Advocate Pat Parsons from Gander, The Woman in the Attic is a claustrophobic psychological thriller wrought with suspense.
Find more information about this book and the other finalists in our guide here: https://guides.nlpl.ca/nlreads/

Only four days left for NL Reads! Thank you to everyone who read my book during this competition.

If you enjoyed, please consider voting for The Woman in the Attic! ❤️

Stay safe everyone—stay home and curl up with a good book! 📚

LibGuides: NL Reads: Home Information and links related to the NL Reads competition.

I am thrilled to announce “The Woman in the Attic” has made it to the long-list for this year’s BMO Winterset Award. To be long-listed alongside these incredible NL authors is such a privilege, and a surreal feeling I will never get used to.

Good luck to all the authors on the long-list, and thank you as ever to my readers for the ongoing support.

Stay safe everyone ❤️

RELEASE: Long list announced for 2020 BMO Winterset Award

📚 www.artsnl.ca/news/longlist2020.htm

Have you been waiting forever for a copy of The Woman in the Attic from the library? Well, the wait is over! The Woman in the Attic is the December pick of the month for the library, as one of the featured books for the NL Reads competition.

For the entire month of December, you can borrow the eBook from the Libby app with no waits or holds. Thanks to the amazing staff of the NLPL for making this happen! Happy reading!

This review made me laugh out loud. Harold Walters, thanks for making my day. I think being called a "young crackerjack" who has written a "gem-dandy novel" has been the defining compliment of my career. Haha!

LOTP: Life On This Planet

I am absolutely stunned, humbled, and honoured to announce that The Woman in the Attic has been selected for the shortlist for NL Reads 2021. I am honoured to be on this list with some incredible fellow authors of the province. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me through this process. I am so freaking excited!

Voting can be done through this link: https://guides.nlpl.ca/nlreads

Happy Monday! 😊❤️

LibGuides: NL Reads: Home Information and links related to the NL Reads competition.

Thank you so much Sleep Less, Read More for this wonderful review. I would be lying if I said this didn't bring a tear to my eye. I am so happy you enjoyed my book so much--especially since thrillers aren't your typical read!

https://sleeplessreadmore.wordpress.com/2020/09/24/the-woman-in-the-attic-by-emily-hepditch/

The Woman In The Attic – by Emily Hepditch The Woman In The Attic by Emily Hepditch Print Length : 156 pages Publisher : Flanker Press (April 22 2020) Synopsis: On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald’s mother has lived…

The Woman in the Attic has been #1 in Newfoundland for 4 (4!!!!!) months straight. I truly must be dreaming. Thanks to everyone for the continued incredible support. ❤️🙉🎉

September 2020: Top 5 Local Sellers from Chapters-Coles-Indigo in each Atlantic Province | Atlantic Books Today Atlantic books were flying off the shelves

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Catch me in Port Aux Basques at the Butterfly Book Boutique where I’ll be signing books until 4! I have plenty of bookmarks to give away 🥰📚

Social distancing measures are in place! ✨

What is your preferred method of writing? Do you handwrite everything or are you strictly glued to your keyboard?

Confession: I write everything by hand first. I can’t help it. Ever since I was a kid, sitting at a computer has dried up every ounce of creativity I have. Does it make the process less efficient? Slower? Yeah! But there’s just something irreplaceable about ink and paper, and something so satisfying about a journal full of words. What do you prefer? A computer or a notebook? Let me know!

A few university grads go wandering through the Long Range Mountains. What could go wrong?

Find out in my next thriller, “Alone on the Trail”, coming spring 2021 from Flanker Press Ltd.

Stay tuned for more details! ❤️

Whoever left this rock at my house—thank you. It’s gorgeous! I am so blown away by these thoughtful little gestures, it makes me so incredibly happy.

(But seriously, who are you?? 😆)

This might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen. Thanks to Paul Ford for painting this! I hope someone finds this rock soon!

Overwhelmed, as always. #1 for 2 months??? Thanks so much for this absolutely craziness 🥰🥳

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Obsessed with books since day 1

WOW! Can’t believe I’m saying this, but I have hit 100 ratings on Goodreads. Thank you to everyone who has read the book and left a rating and/or review. Hearing your feedback is such a privilege—all comments, good, bad and in-between—help me grow as a writer. I’m celebrating this milestone on this fine muggy morning with a cup coffee and my journal.

Did you like The Woman in the Attic? Did you hate it? Feel free to leave a Goodreads review (whatever your thoughts are—I wanna hear it!). It really helps us authors spread the word 🙂

Thanks and happy Tuesday!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53240018-the-woman-in-the-attic

The Woman in the Attic On the coast of rural Newfoundland, Hannah Fitzgerald's mother has lived her life in near total isolation. When Hannah returns to the lon...

Wow, this just made my day ❤️. Thank you so much to Talia for this amazing review. It means so much to hear your feedback on The Woman in the Attic. Atlantic Books Today, thanks for all the support!

It's Thursday and time for another staff pick! Today we have Talia showing off a suspenseful Newfoundland read in the Time to collection. Check out her review on the blog below!
https://atlanticbooks.ca/blogs/news/staff-picks-talia-meade
Emily Hepditch
Flanker Press Ltd.

It is with great pride (and many tears) that I can officially announce The Woman in the Attic is the #1 bestselling local book in Newfoundland right now. I am shocked, speechless, and so very grateful. My dream of being a best-selling author has been realized.

Thank you so much to my amazing team at Flanker Press Ltd. for all they do, and congrats of course to my fellow Flanker authors!

https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/june-2020-top-5-local-sellers-from-chapters-coles-indigo-in-each-atlantic-province/

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