It was a rare five-hour window of peace on Wednesday for Canberra sensation Ginger Gorman, as she took a break from her frenetic media schedule promoting her flying-off-the-bookshelves work, Troll Hunting.

She used that time to get a striking tattoo from her armpit to her thigh, scarring her body in celebration of the book's success and refusing to be bowed by the emotional wounds left by the vicious online trolls she had been studying and interviewing for more than five years.

Canberra author Ginger Gorman gets inked on Wednesday by George from Armani Artspace in Narrabundah.

The tattoo artist, George from Armani Artspace in Narrabundah, was apparently so gentle Ginger fell asleep on the table.

That was also no doubt a reflection of the crazy media schedule she has been following promoting the book, whose full title is: Troll Hunting: Inside the World of Online Hate and Its Human Fallout.