STEAM Book Prize double shortlisting and story update

Hugely thrilled that both The Quiet at the End of the World and The Starlight Watchmaker have been shortlisted for the2020 STEAM Children’s Book Prize, celebrating science in fiction!

Here’s the full YA list:

Beauty Sleep	by Kathryn Evans	Usborne
The Chaos of Now	by Erin Lange	Faber & Faber
The Starlight Watchmaker	by Lauren James	Barrington Stoke
Nowhere on Earth	by Nick Lake	Hodder
The Quiet at the End of the World	by Lauren James	Walker Books
Earth Swarm	by Tim Hall	David Fickling Books

An Unauthorised Fan Treatise is now on chapter 8, and it’s a great time to dive in, if you haven’t started reading yet! There are going to be around 30 updates in total, running until May.

Prologue

Chapter 1 – The Undeniable Facts

Chapter 2 – Evidence of Nathan’s Sexuality

Chapter 3 – Rob’s Social Media Presence

Chapter 4 – Manipulation in Media Narrative by Management

Chapter 5 – The Beginning of the End for Silentwakes

Chapter 6 – Net Worth and Property

Chapter 7 – New Evidence Uncovered by this Essay

Chapter 8 – A Warning to the Commenters

Published by Wren James

Wren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels as ‘Lauren James’, including Last Seen Online, Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Quiet at the End of the World. Amazon MGM Studios is developing The Loneliest Girl in the Universe as a feature film. Joe Roth and Jeffrey Kirschenbaum will produce the film alongside Katherine Langford. They are a RLF Royal Fellow and the story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper (Seasons 2 and 3). Season 3 will guest star Jonathan Bailey, playing a role created by Wren. View more posts