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Variety released the news today: Amazon MGM Studios is developing the YA novel “The Loneliest Girl in the Universe” as a feature film. Joe Roth and Jeffrey Kirschenbaum (“Anyone but You,” “Fast X,” the upcoming “Jackpot”) will produce the film alongside Katherine Langford, best known for starring in Netflix’s hit YA series “13 Reasons Why”;Continue reading “Amazon Studios is making a feature film of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe!”

THE FINAL COPIES ARE HEREEEEE ✨✨✨ Which means you have LESS THAN THIRTY DAYS to get your preorders in and snag a goody bag of signed postcards and bookmarks! Go go go! Goodreads Amazon UK Waterstones Audible Foyles Netgalley (for book bloggers) Last Seen Online is a murder mystery set in the iconic LA ofContinue reading “One month until Last Seen Online releases!”

The novel for ‘An Unauthorized Fan Treatise’ is now up for preorder! If you’re in the UK, you can get a goody bag of signed merch by preordering. I’m so excited by all the love for this book already, so I wanted to do something special to count down to release day! Fill out thisContinue reading “Preorder Last Seen Online for goodies!”

I’m super excited to announce that I have a new anthology coming out today! Future Hopes is suitable for ages 9-12 and features stories by Eli Brown, L. R. Lam, M. G. Leonard, Rebecca Lim, Oisín McGann, Tolá Okogwu, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, Louie Stowell and Bijal Vachharajani. Amazon UK Waterstones Goodreads Ajji walked pastContinue reading “My new anthology is out now!”

My climate anthology FUTURE HOPES, which releases on 7th March, has just landed! The finished copy is so beautiful. I’m so proud of all the work that the contributers and team at Walker Books have put into this. If you’re a book blogger or reviewer, you can now request an early copy to read onContinue reading “Available to request on Netgalley”

Coming in March: I’ve edited my first anthology! As a climate activist, I’ve learnt that it’s so important to speak from a place of hope about the future, especially in fiction. So I asked some of the best children’s writers from around the world to write stories set in a positive future for Future Hopes:Continue reading “Announcing my next book!”

During the summer holidays at the age of sixteen, I spent a heavenly six weeks grinding freeze-dried honeybees into powder in one of Warwick University’s science labs. I’d captured the bees myself, bedecked in a white suit and mask, from a local beekeeper’s wildflower meadow hives. Once they were thoroughly decimated with a pestle andContinue reading “BBC Radio 4 + Oxford Event + Great British Menu”

Hey folks! I am unbelievably excited to announce that next month I’m going to be launching a new serialised novel! I loved posting chapters of An Unauthorised Fan Treatise online week by week. Since my novel The Loneliest Girl in the Universe takes place over the course of a whole year, with each chapter dated,Continue reading “Free novel posting online!”

2021 favourites | 2020 favourites | 2019 favourites | 2018 favourites | 2017 favourites | 2016 favourites | 2015 favourites | 2014 favourites 🏆 FAVOURITES OF 2022 🏆 It’s time! For the best in show! Here are my favourite novels, poetry collections and non-fiction books of the year.  All of these books hooked me from page 1 and kept me reading in one sitting, whichContinue reading “Best books of 2022 + yearly round up”

I recently spoke at the BBC Television Centre on writing environmental issues into fiction. The 20 minute talk is now online to watch: I also took up a fellowship position at Aston University, Birmingham, this month. Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellows work throughout the UK in universities, helping students and staff one-to-one with writing developmentContinue reading “Lecture on Writing Climate Fiction”