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March Favourites | Community | Wells&Wong | Oliver Bonas | Aurora

  Previously: April | May | June | July | August | September |October | November |December | January | February It’s April, which means it’s nearly summer ! Every day I keep putting on skirts and then having to add leggings because it’s just a little too cold still. One day soon it will be warm again, I hope… I spent most of March writingContinue reading “March Favourites | Community | Wells&Wong | Oliver Bonas | Aurora”

Behind the Book: US Editor Alison Weiss

Previously in this series: Agent | Ghostwriter | Editor | Library Assistant  | Publicity Assistant | Typesetter | Cover Designer | Foreign Rights Manager |Blogger |Scout |Translators | Book charity | Copyeditor | Journalist I am bringing back this series for a very special reason: to interview my American editor, Alison Weiss at Sky Pony Press!  I absolutely had to add her to my list ofContinue reading “Behind the Book: US Editor Alison Weiss”

Things I enjoyed in February | Broad City | Curtis Sittenfeld | Hamilton

Previously: April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November |December | January I can’t believe it’s Maaaarch! Where did time go? The most important thing in the universe happened in February, and I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST (finally) (third time lucky). Hurray for transportational freedom!   TV Show – Broad City It’s back!! Ilana and Abbi areContinue reading “Things I enjoyed in February | Broad City | Curtis Sittenfeld | Hamilton”

Mining the depths of the internet

Inspired by Lucy Powrie’s video on Internet books, I thought I’d talk about books featuring the internet too. For me personally, books about internet culture are something I want so much and am never satisfied by. I am 23, and I can’t remember a time without the internet. I’m sure there probably was a timeContinue reading “Mining the depths of the internet”

Things I liked in January | Captive Prince | X Ambassadors | The Rec Center

Previously: April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December I can’t believe it’s February already, and I’ve been making these posts for almost a year! I’m proud of myself for keeping up with it. I still really enjoy collecting tidbits for them, so I’m going to carry on. January was a month of lotsContinue reading “Things I liked in January | Captive Prince | X Ambassadors | The Rec Center”

🎉 Branford Boase Award nomination! 🎉

Exciting news today – my editor Annalie Grainger and I have been longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2016! It’s such an unbelievably cool honour, and I can absolutely confirm that Annalie deserves it for the hard work she put into The Next Together with me. Annalie is nominated not only as an editor, but anContinue reading “🎉 Branford Boase Award nomination! 🎉”

Write about zombie cats & other writing tips

Over the last few months I’ve done a lot of events, and I always get asked for my top writing tips. I don’t really believe in “writing” tips, because as long as a story is compelling, you can break any rule and it’ll work (there is nothing wrong with adverbs, for example). Most of theContinue reading “Write about zombie cats & other writing tips”

US Book Deal announced!

THE NEWS IS OUT! The Next Together is being pub’ed in the US by Sky Pony Press, edited by Alison Weiss! I’m absolutely thrilled to bits. I’ve been keeping this a secret since MAY so I’m going to be talking about it a lot now that I finally can! I’m really excited to work with the wonderful Alison andContinue reading “US Book Deal announced!”

Things I liked in December | And then there were none | Oscar Isaac | Podcasts

Previously: April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November It’s mid-January! I’m very late with this post! Let’s get on with it!   Podcast – Fiction Addiction My friend Sarah records this, and it’s really thoughtful and broad, and I’m very into it. Recently, she and her co-host have discussed Jessica Jones, Code Name Verity,Continue reading “Things I liked in December | And then there were none | Oscar Isaac | Podcasts”