Updates

  • READ, SCREAM, REPEAT book cover reveal

    In case you missed the announcement last week, Farshore Books have revealed the cover of the brand-new middle grade horror anthology they’re publishing this August, which is curated by MG horror queen Jennifer Killick (author of the Dread Wood and Crater Lake series) and features stories by a fantastic host of authors: Kirsty Applebaum, Rachel…

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  • 5 Random Questions with Claire Fraise, author of They Stay

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Claire Fraise about They Stay – the first book in her YA supernatural thriller series, where Shiloh’s little brother is abducted, and it seems like the only clues she can find as to what happened to him come via the spirits haunting…

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  • 5 Random Questions with Melissa Welliver, author of My Love Life and the Apocalypse

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Melissa Welliver about her latest YA novel, My Love Life and the Apocalypse – a post-apocalyptic romcom where a teen synth named Echo and Pandora – a teen girl survivor of the apocalypse – team up to find answers to what happened…

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  • A Taste of Darkness – announcing a new YA horror anthology

    I always love reading short story anthologies. They’re perfect for just dipping into when you have a few spare minutes, and have introduced me to tons of new authors whose longer novels I then go on to read. Which leads me to my exciting news: I’m thrilled to have been asked to contribute a short…

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  • 5 Random Questions with J.P. Rose, author of The Haunting of Tyrese Walker

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed J.P. Rose about her YA debut, The Haunting of Tyrese Walker – a terrifyingly gripping horror story about a boy who goes with his mother to visit their family in Jamaica following the death of Tyrese’s father, and finds long-buried secrets and…

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  • 5 Random Questions with Tess James-Mackey, author of Someone Is Watching You

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Tess James-Mackey about her gripping debut, Someone Is Watching You – a YA thriller set in an abandoned prison, where Nia is goaded by her friends to put herself into increasingly dangerous situations until she finally encounters a danger she really hadn’t…

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  • Harrow Lake-inspired art

    A few weeks ago, I was invited for a virtual visit with a class from Korah Collegiate & Vocational School in Canada. The students had been studying Harrow Lake for their class, and so a Q&A session seemed like the perfect way to round off their study. They had a bunch of awesome questions, and…

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  • 5 Random Questions with Naomi Gibson, author of Game Over Girl

    I wanted to find out a few facts Naomi Gibson’s readers might not know about her. Enter the 5 Random Questions!

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  • Kat Ellis: My 2022 in Review

    Doing a yearly review post has become a bit of a tradition (I first started it back in 2012 on my old Blogger site, RIP) and it’s a tradition I thought I’d continue as I launch this new site. So, what happened in 2022? On the writing front, foreign editions of Harrow Lake and Wicked…

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