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  • It’s US release day for The Devouring Light!

    The Devouring Light has been out in the UK for just over a month, and now it’s the US’s turn to encounter the creepy abandoned house, deadly leech-infested swamp, and a host of other terrors contained within its pages 🙂 Have you added it to your Halloween TBR yet? When Haden Romero, her bandmate, and…

  • The Evolution of The Devouring Light’s book cover

    “Do you have any thoughts about what you’d like your cover to look like?” This is one of those questions most authors I’ve spoken to love to hear from their publishing team. I know I definitely do. It doesn’t happen with every book; sometimes your team have a really clear idea of what they think…

  • Cover reveal: The Devouring Light

    It’s here and I love it! This is the cover for my next YA horror, The Devouring Light, which comes out from HarperTeen on October 7. Thank you so much to my publisher’s brilliant design team for creating a cover which so beautifully matches the story. When their tour bus crashes into a ravine, long-time…

  • Brilliant books I blurbed in 2024

    One of the things I enjoy most about my job – aside from the writing itself – is sometimes getting a chance to read another author’s book early, and even offer a quote/blurb to be used by the author or publisher to help promote it. As I was looking back over my reading this year,…

  • Fictional Hangover LIVE this Sunday!

    This weekend, at 8pm on Sunday 27th October, Dawn Kurtagich and I will be joining Clare and Amanda from Fictional Hangover podcast for a special Halloween LIVE episode on their YouTube channel. We’ll be in full costume, of course, and talking about my newsletter-exclusive short story, Phantom Image, where a teenager’s digital photography project takes…

  • Blackfin Sky 10th anniversary interview with Penny Thomas, Publisher at Firefly Press

    Penny Thomas, Publisher at Firefly Press, was the first editor I ever worked with, and I’m delighted to be able to share this interview today to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the publication of our first collaboration – my debut YA novel, Blackfin Sky.  (This interview was first published in my newsletter earlier this month –…

  • 5 Random Questions with A.J. Clack, author of Lie Or Die

    In my March newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed A.J. Clack about her fantastic YA debut, Lie Or Die, which came out this month from Firefly Press. In it, Kass is tricked into auditioning for a new reality TV show by her best friend, but when she gets there and contestants…

  • 5 Random Questions with Lisa Richardson, author of Channel Fear

    In February’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Lisa Richardson about her debut YA horror, Channel Fear. In it, Iris, Byron and Molly are following in the footsteps of 2 famous YouTubers, Zach and Lucas, who disappeared while on a ghost hunt several months ago. Now, with tensions running high between…

  • Blackfin Sky and Purge are on sale!

    There’s a January sale happening over at Firefly Press’s site, which means there’s a whopping 50% off some of their excellent YA titles – including 2 of my books, Blackfin Sky and Purge. The sale ends on 31st Jan, so hurry if you’d like to grab a great bargain and support a small but mighty…

  • 5 Random Questions with Diana Rodriguez Wallach, author of Hatchet Girls

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Diana Rodriguez Wallach about her latest heart-pounding YA horror, Hatchet Girls. Inspired by the Borden murders, Hatchet Girls kicks off in modern day with a new grisly crime scene in the town where those infamous axe murders took place back in 1892.…