Tag: YA

  • 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…

  • 5 Random Questions with Ann Dávila Cardinal, author of You’ve Awoken Her – part 2

    And here is part 2! In case you missed it, this month in my newsletter (catch up HERE) I interviewed Ann Dávila Cardinal about her latest creepy YA, You’ve Awoken Her, and asked Ann 5 Random Questions… in 2 parts! (So yes, technically that’s 10 Random Questions, you lucky things!) If you missed part 1,…

  • 5 Random Questions with Ann Dávila Cardinal, author of You’ve Awoken Her

    This month in my newsletter (catch up HERE if you’ve missed any of them) I interviewed Ann Dávila Cardinal about her latest creepy YA, You’ve Awoken Her, which I absolutely loved. In it, Gabriel reluctantly goes to spend the summer with his friend in the Hamptons, only to find a terrifying creature lurking in the…

  • 5 Random Questions with Dan Smith, author of The Deadsoul Project

    This month in my newsletter (catch up HERE if you’ve missed any of them) I interviewed Dan Smith about The Deadsoul Project, the first in his brand-new YA thriller series with Barrington Stoke. The book sees siblings Kyle and Lauren return home to their flat to find their recently-deceased stepdad Kyle sitting at the kitchen…

  • 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,…

  • 5 Random Questions with Sarah Naughton, author of You Better Watch Out

    In December’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Sarah Naughton about her chillingly festive YA thriller, You Better Watch Out, which sees Eleri receiving increasingly threatening advent gifts from a sinister Secret Santa. This is a fantastically gripping read for any time of the year, but especially perfect for the Christmas…

  • 5 Random Questions with Emily Lloyd-Jones, author of The Wild Huntress

    This month in my newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Emily Lloyd-Jones about her latest YA fantasy, The Wild Huntress, in which Branwen – a girl who can see and slay monsters – enters the wild hunt to try to win a cure for her mother’s illness, and has to join…

  • 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…

  • 5 Random Questions with Logan-Ashley Kisner, author of Old Wounds

    In the Halloween issue of my newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Logan-Ashley Kisner about his debut YA horror, Old Wounds, in which trans teens Max and Erin get trapped in a creepy, small town where the locals are determined to sacrifice them to the local monster – which only eats…