And The Nominations Are…
Red Ink has made the list of books in the running for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal. The Carnegie Medal is the gold standard in literature for young people. Previous winners include Sally Gardener, Patrick Ness, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman and C.S. Lewis. I’m thrilled to see my name alongside experienced authors, like Malorie Blackman […]
The Reviews Are In… *MORE ADDED*
The paperback version of Red Ink hit the shelves in June and the response has been cracking across the board. The book was nominated for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal and is long-listed for the 2014 Branford Boase Award, was featured on both World Book Day’s Summer Reading List and Booktrust’s Summer Reads List 2013, and made the […]
Red Ink Out Loud *UPDATED*
Be warned. I shall not be shutting up about Red Ink until it arrives in bookshops on Feb 7 – and shall probably keep going on about it after that too. So give in to it. Come along to one of these events and hear me blabber… On January 19 I’ll be at The Gallery Cafe […]
The Next Big Thing
What’s my next big thing after Red Ink, you ask? Well, RM Ivory and my Hot Key Books stablemate Lydia Syson have asked, to be precise, in a chain-letter style blog that gets writers talking about their next exciting project. Here’s mine below. And after you’ve read this..? I’m passing the baton to three writer friends whose […]
Binned’s Big Bash
My time on the Arvon/Jerwood mentoring scheme came to a celebratory end this week with the launch of an anthology of our work, quirkily entitled Binned. The Free Word Centre was the setting for an evening of champagne, reading and, sniffle, goodbyes. I’ve spent a year working on my new novel with Maria McCann as my […]
