Wow. Just a great big huge THANK YOU to every lovely librarian, English teacher and bookseller who has helped me on my amazing book tour for The Castle. (If you were there, you’ll know what this code says. If you weren’t … see if you can work it out.) Thank
August booky things
The month of August isn’t generally a super-busy one for books. Everyone’s on holiday, or gearing up for September, when the deluge of Christmas-ready publications will begin. Watch out! You’re about to be submerged … However, it’s been a busy enough month for me. The Castle came out, of course
Castle blog tour … coming up
I’m very pleased to announce that I shall be touring some of my favourite YA and MG blogs in September, talking about The Castle, which is officially out tomorrow! Yay! Reviews and a giveaway will be included, as well as some of the background on how and why I wrote
Best Book Awards
Last Wednesday was always going to be a big date in the calendar: it was the awards ceremony for the Best Book Awards, run by the Booktrust. And You Don’t Know Me was shortlisted in the 12-14 Best Story Book category, so I GOT TO GO! I travelled up to
The Castle – first chapter
The opening pages of The Castle have arrived! With two months to go until the launch, you can read the first chapter here. Just click on the link below, and click again on the page you get to. And let me know what you think! The Castle Chapter 1
The Voice
Woo hoo! You Don’t Know Me is out in the Netherlands. It’s called The Voice and getting some lovely attention. Go, little book! Toi toi toi!
What, Why and How I Write
There’s an ongoing blog tour about the writing process in which authors answer the following four questions: 1. What am I working on? 2. How does my work differ from others in the genre? 3. Why do I write what I do? 4. How does my writing process work? If
World Book Day – Days 2, 3, 4 and 5 …
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. When I see my agent next week and she asks me how far I’ve got with the new book and the answer is ‘My dog ate my homework’ … this is the real reason why. World Book Day. It turns out that World
New book out in August
Well, hooray! After lots and lots of writing this time last year, and lots and lots of editing in the autumn and winter, I’ve just finished my latest book for Chicken House. It’s an adventure story called The Castle, and it will be out in August, so look out for
Fall collection …
Recently is has been Fashion Week in London, New York, Milan and Paris. All the new collections have been on show (although they haven’t been the autumn ones, obviously, because fashion works six months ahead, so as the weather gets colder the models have been striding down the catwalk in