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QUEEN OF TEEN, The Final Chapter
I was wrong — it wasn’t easy to pick me out of the crowd after all. Some of the potential Queens of Teen had even come all in black, and it was an altogether friendly, sophisticated, jolly affair, not gratuitously sparkly, and with the greater part of the pink action restricted to cupcakes and petit [...]
You SHALL go to the ball.
Yes, fans, I’m going to the ball. THE ball. The Queen of Teen ball, dresscode: Pretty in Pink. Sparkly shoes and glittering jewels optional (but fab!) The last time I dressed all in pink was in 1987. I was 30 and living in NYC, invited to a wedding in London, and my mother (despairing that [...]
Sound Bites
Puffins, apparently, live more or less forever — or at least for 70 years. And they like a (noisy) party. So it was great to have all those friends and relations out in force to celebrate the birthday — Eoin Colfer, Cathy Cassidy, Jeanne Willis, Lauren Child, Cressida Cowell, Morris Gleitzman, Kevin Brooks, Charlie Higson…and [...]
Queen of Teen? Make mine the Prince of Darkness.
I can keep quiet no longer. Despite the fact that some of my favourite authors have been nominated for the Queen of Teen award (“It’s glitzy, it’s glam, it’s the ultimate award for teen fiction!”), I have just looked at the website for the first time now. And while I passionately believe that anything that [...]
Name dropping can be fun
When I first started meeting other authors, I couldn’t believe how easy it was just to drop their names casually into conversations. Which I did a lot, JUST BECAUSE I COULD.
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