Hello lovely blog readers. My minion human just got her copyedits for ACID, so she's asked me to step in and blog for her this week (af...

It was a list. Just a list, written on an A4 sheet of lined paper torn from a notebook. Names and addresses, with neatly ruled lin...

When I went to visit my publisher for the first time last summer, just after they bought ACID, they asked me if I’d be willing to do sc...

Today, I'm talking to Dan Smith, whose (quite literally) chilling THE CHILD THIEF is published today by Orion Books . Dan an...

What does the smell of a freshly-opened packet of mint gum mean to you? For me, it’s being 14, opening a brand new notebook and st...

Finishing up edits again, so I'm not really here, but I thought I'd drop by to tell you some very exciting news. Tomorrow is the l...

Today, I'm absolutely thrilled to welcome Julia Martin Munroe Martin to the blog. I first met Julia, a freelance writer and ...

On Tuesday night, I ran my first ever proper workshop session at Chesterfield Library . It was for a group of young writers called...

But I will be tomorrow. In the meantime, you can find me over at the fabulous Friday The Thirteeners blog, where I've been dared by Thi...

Firstly! A fantastic new blog for all things UK YA has been launched, courtesy of Keris Stainton , Keren David and Susie Day . Ch...