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Gabi Coatsworth

Gabi Coatsworth

Gabi Coatsworth is a British-born author, speaker, and blogger who has spent half her life living in the United States. She’s published by Atmosphere Press. Her award-winning debut novel, A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Over, has readers loving the friendly ghost featured in it. The sequel, A Field Guide to Library Ghosts, came out in October and has a supernatural element too – the ghost insisted. Her memoir, Love’s Journey Home, came out in 2022 and has also won several awards. If she’s not writing or traveling, she’ll be in her flower garden, wondering whether to weed or relaxing with a book.

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Characters Who Take Over Your Book

I needed a ghost. I’d just published my debut novel, A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Over, and was beginning my follow-up. I was about halfway into writing the second book when I began to receive feedback from readers about the first. One of the things they commented on was how…
Gabi Coatsworth
December 3, 2025