Unsticky, Edinburgh and one more thing to make it an uneven three…
Greetings! A few things that you really need to know about! Thing the first Unsticky will be reissued on August 2nd. It is the same Unsticky that you may know or love but with a different jacket and a...
View ArticleA day late… Kind of…
Hey amigos! I bring not great tidings, I’m afraid. First, sadly, my London event, next Sunday (September 9th) at the Hampstead & Highgate Literary festival is now cancelled. I’m really sorry if...
View ArticleYA event. Bath. Stop.
Say hello, Thank you so much for all the amazing comments you left on my last blog, which was a bit woe-is-me (actually, it was a lot woe-is-me) but I did want to explain the delay with publication...
View ArticleOn rewriting…
I’m tidying up my computer, deleting years worth of stuff from various old computers that I migrated. Qu’elle boring! But I did find this quote that I’d felt the need to copy and paste, which was just...
View ArticleReading list
Hallå homies! The clocks have gone back and now the next few months are about hunkering down and being cosy. Craving crumble, watching black and white movies with the dog snuggled into my armpit, and...
View ArticleA video for women who don’t consider themselves feminists…
Right on, sisters This has been doing the rounds on Twitter and is a spoken word performance from Mindy Nettifee on why we all need to stand up and represent. Hell, yeah! For women who don’t consider...
View ArticleMy annual Chrismukkah Gift Guide (and a little reading list too.)
Tis here! My second annual Chrismukkah Gift Guide, plus a little reading list at the end for your book tooken. FOR TEENS (SULKY AND OTHERWISE) A compilation of all the best bits from Rookiemag.com’s...
View Article2013, be gentle with me
Self-pity is a beautiful well to repeatedly dip in and find more reasons not to live, more reasons not to cheer. And the well is an illusion until the well runs dry and then you’re ready for a...
View ArticleThe best chicken soup in the world. (No, really, it is.)
I don’t have many skills in life. I can bang out a novel and if you give me a full freezer and a huge beef joint that was half price in Sainsbury’s, I will magically make room in the full freezer for...
View ArticlePssst! Want to read the synopsis for It Felt Like A Kiss?
Hey! I am so pleased that finally, finally, finally I can share the synopsis for my new adult novel, It Felt Like A Kiss, with you. Are you ready? Like, really ready? Meet Ellie Cohen, one of the most...
View ArticleIt Felt Like A Kiss – delayed
I am really sorry, gutted in fact, to have to tell you that IT FELT LIKE A KISS has been put back to early 2014. No exact date as yet, no matter what it says on Amazon. There’s nothing wrong with the...
View ArticleSCREAM!!!!!!!! DIARY OF A CRUSH – IT’S BACK!
Hallo lovers My goodness, I’ve been sitting on this news, like a clucky hen sitting on eggs, for months and can not wait to share it with you. For years, people have been asking me when Diary Of A...
View ArticleDIARY OF A CRUSH ebooks out today!
Holla! Well, it’s been years in the making but today, the Diary Of A Crush trilogy is available as ebooks. And the ‘sort-of sequel’ Diary Of A Grace, which will only be available as an e-novella. The...
View ArticleI like to be in America.
Say howdy! Hope you are all good. I have just delivered by brand spanking new YA novel, The Worst Girlfriend In The World to Atom. My favourite line in the whole book? “Girl, you be knowing shit about...
View ArticleSex and the teenage girl
I’ve been thinking a lot about sex and teenage girls this week. It’s hard not to when the press have been so gleefully and salaciously reporting on all the details of the Jeremy Forrest abduction case....
View ArticleUnsticky – deleted scene
Hey! To celebrate finally hitting the big 5000 followers on Twitter and to thank you for suffering through my many updates on Miss Betsy I’m posting a deleted scene from Unsticky. It was written very...
View ArticleYour summer reading list
Tis summer. Exams are over. Or you’re heading off on your holidays. Or just sitting in the garden enjoying that rare beast that is the British summer and slurping down a cool drink (I’m obsessed with...
View ArticleIt Felt Like A Kiss – cover reveal
Hello! Yes! At last! This is the cover for It Felt Like a Kiss It’s out on February 13th and it’s available for pre-order now. It’s proper coming out, finally. It will also be available as an ebook,...
View ArticleThe Booby Trap on sale today
Hello lovers! A while ago Dawn O’Porter asked if I’d like to contribute you to a book she was compiling about boobs with all the proceeds going to breast cancer charities. I said yes, one thousand per...
View ArticleAuthors for the Philippines
Greetings one and all Like so many people, I’ve been terribly moved by the plight of the people in the Philippines who have been devastated by the damage caused by Typhoon Halyan. Over 2500 people have...
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