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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
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!
Today, thanks to the awesome blogger, Lucy The Reader, we are celebrating UKYA Day. This is all about reading and recommending YA books by UK-based writers. There are so many good ones, whatever genre you like reading! For some great ideas, why not head here: ukya.co.uk, or here: projectukya.blogspot.co.uk?
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
So, er … this. A new book prize has been announced: the Best Book Awards, run by a national reading charity called Booktrust. I love what they do. They’re all about getting people reading – adults and children – and they know that the way to get reading is to
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
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
The amazing German website, Lovelybooks, is launching a discussion on ‘Der Look’, with 15 free copies to be won. I’ll be checking in and answering questions, so if you’re reading the book in German and want to be a part of it, you can join by clicking this link. Viel
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
I’ve been editing madly over the last few days, and organising a seven year old’s dream Star Wars party, so I haven’t managed to keep up with X Factor. However, my lovely Twitter friends tell me that watching the programme this weekend was a bit like reading You Don’t Know
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