Finding Nutmeg

Born and raised in Limerick City, Irish author Greg Clarke attended St. Munchin's College and the Limerick Institute of Technology. After working in the property industry for seven years, Greg and his father Ger, who had recently retired from Dell Computers, partnered to create the Santa Experience live event where families can travel through several themed rooms with Elf actors guiding them as they visit the elves' post office, stable, and sleigh station before arriving at Santa's house. Coming up with scripts, rooms, props required a lot of creativity and imagination. Now in its 11th year, the Santa Experience is in six cities in Ireland. The development of the Santa Experience inspired the book, while the COVID-19 lockdown was the impetus to start writing. Greg began a steep five-month learning curve from writing the book to getting it to print. "Seeing my mind's eye come to life in such glorious illustrations is magical," said Greg. Greg lives in Limerick with his wife Melanie, a native of Michigan, USA, and their daughter Leila. Greg and Melanie met one night in Barcelona, lost each other for a few months, found each other, dated across continents, broke up, got back together and got hitched not once, but twice!