Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Gallagher Green. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Gallagher, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

I think I learned to write from a huge mix of things. There is never just a single “thing”. So I think my learning started with being encouraged by many people throughout my life to just create. Which is why I have started offering consulting for other authors, so I can help encourage, support, and sharpen the skills that are already within them.
If I had to boil everything down to a single skill that would have sped up my learning process, it would be learning to trust yourself. I didn’t have anyone to share my writing with who would honestly ask if what I was writing was truly me. I wrote two novels that did not represent me at all, and because they didn’t feel right, I never published them, and never will. So learning to trust who I truly am or having someone to help me with that would have really helped me early on in my writing.
The most essential skill is consuming knowledge. Most often you are told to read lots of other novels, especially those within the genre you write; which isn’t wrong. But I highly recommend non-fiction, and it doesn’t matter if that is a book, documentary, or podcast. Learning as much as you can in all fields will inspire you so much, while giving your greater perspective into the lives of others. I recently wrote a horror novella after hearing about a very rare type of volcanic eruption on a podcast. I never would have thought of that story without that podcast. So knowledge is essential no matter what genre you write.
The biggest obstacle in learning is really overthinking it. Too often people think you need to go to college, take a class/course, or learn from some other way that isn’t that accessible. Thinking you need a physical teacher to learn, so they just don’t try. Trust in yourself to learn through self-education. If the other options are available to you, great. But if they aren’t, don’t let it hold you back, and trust that you are more than capable of learning whatever you need to know for your life as a writer all on your own.

Gallagher, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I have written multiple novels over the years across several genres, and I am only expanding on that as I grow with Golden Art Publishing.
Golden Art Publishing and I have always focused on inclusion in all the works we release. We always love it when readers see themselves in a character as they never have before. But now we want to start offering ways to help ‌other authors excel in their writing.
As part of this, I have decided to start offering consulting to other authors to help them reach their dream of writing meaningful work they can be truly proud of and that embodies their values. This can be achieved with coaching. Having that writing coach to encourage you and help you through the slumps every artist has can be very valuable. Writing can be a very vulnerable process, and you aren’t always ready to share or talk through those hard moments with friends or family. I am speaking from experience. It can get very difficult and lonely, and that is where I want to help people as a writing coach.
The other service I am offering is fact checking for novels. Fact checking is something most editors do, but it is generally only done with non-fiction. Fiction editors generally don’t focus too closely on fact checking, and with the increase of AI generated answers in search engines, facts are often wrong. One of the primary sources for Google’s AI summary on searches is Reddit. So there is a high chance that the “fact” you received in that search is from a random person in a Reddit comments section.
I have read many bestselling novels from the top publishers only to be ripped out of the world of the story by the glaring mistake of a fact that is wrong, which could have been easily cleared up. I have always been someone who questions every fact I read, so I would love to help make the novels shine with that little bit of fact checking polish.
In a time where AI generated novels are flooding the market, it is important that the art of writing stories isn’t lost. The written word story has never been under such a powerful threat before, and we all know that governments will do little to nothing to protect it, so we need to stand together as artists and readers by supporting each other.

Is there a particular goal or mission driving your creative journey?

In my writing, it is to create diverse and meaningful work that will help people see life from other perspectives, and will help some readers feel less alone. Art of all forms is very powerful. It can educate without being a teacher, and it can comfort in ways you didn’t even know you needed comforting. Being part of that is the goal and mission with my writing.
As a consultant, I want to help other authors reach their potential with the support everyone needs at times. So my goal is to help them meet their goals as a writer.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

The easiest way is to just be supportive. Buy the art they create when you can, which is more important than ever with generative AI trying to turn art into factory-made products.
It is also important to remember that not all art pieces are going to be for you, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a painting or a novel; you won’t like every piece of art. But this doesn’t mean that it is bad, or that it shouldn’t exist. Too often people forget that not everything is created just for them. So sometimes the best support can be as simple as understanding that we all have different tastes, that we shouldn’t hate art just because it doesn’t suit us, and that we can still uplift it so those who it will suit might see it.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://GoldenArtPublishing.com
• Other: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/gallaghergreen.bsky.social

  LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/golden.art.publishing

Image Credits

Jim Duffin
Kim Winey Photography