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For the past two years I’ve been Patron of Reading at The Abbey School in Reading (the place, not the activity. I know …) It’s a brilliant scheme, bringing authors and schools together – and if you don’t have a Patron of Reading at your school yet, ask for one!
Every month, you’ll find me on Girls Heart Books, talking about writing. Yesterday, I wrote about the making of a book, from first idea to finished copy. You can read all about it here. Love Song has arrived at last – 20 author copies in a box from my publishers,
The blog tour is announced! And I have the most beautiful banner for it! (Thanks, Chicken House.) Come and find out more about boys, bands and books on some of my favourite bloggy places in April …
In honour of International Women’s Day today, I was thrilled to be asked by The Bookseller to write about strong female role models in YA fiction. So I did. And I added some non-fiction too. Which they were fine with. (And fiction included manga, so yay.) Guess which of these
LOVE LOVE LOVE … Peter Dundas’s new Fall ready to wear collection for Roberto Cavalli, inspired by Led Zeppelin – it’s pure Love Song. Click on the photos to see them all, and check out my Pinterest board.
3 books arrived in the post yesterday, in a thick padded envelope with a tell-tale, yolk-yellow Chicken House label. I always love it when the postwoman delivers one of those. I got to see Love Song with its final cover for the first time, and that was so exciting! Best
So. This is the day we heard that David Bowie died. To those of us who were teenagers in the 70s and 80s, this is devastating news. Like hearing about Elvis, or Princess Diana. He was 69, and his last album came out 2 days ago, on his birthday. He
The bound proofs of Love Song go out this week. They look like this: Aren’t they beautiful? Bound proofs are the uncorrected version of the manuscript that publishers send out early to reviewers, with a cheaper (but oh so lovely, in the case of Chicken House) cover and paper. In
Big drum roll ………………………………………. (Which is kind of appropriate for a book about a rock band.) Love Song will be out in spring 2016, and the cover is ready! Here it is. Ta DAH ……………………………………….. Do you like it? It’s by Helen Crawford-White, and it fits in with the new
I love an event that describes itself as Books. Authors. Readers. Cake. That’s about as good as it gets. And I’m thrilled to be a part of this one. The first UKYA extravaganza took place in Birmingham last year and was a big success. Now it’s going to Nottingham (and
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