Claim: Patricia Gibney is an Irish author of crime fiction who self-published a children's book entitled Spring Sprong Sally and worked with the Irish Writers Centre to improve her writing.
Evidence: Patricia Gibney is an Irish author of crime fiction who sold 100,000 copies of her first crime thriller as an e-book, and had total sales exceeding 500,000 copies in 2018. When her husband died in 2009, aged 49, three months after a diagnosis of cancer, Gibney turned to art and writing, self-publishing a children's book entitled Spring Sprong Sally. She worked with the Irish Writers Centre to improve her writing.