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The PEA’S BOOK OF HOLIDAYS design-a-cover giveaway!
Facing a long drive to get to your summer holiday this year? Or staying home and in need of entertainment? Then this is the competition for you. Up for grabs: a COMPLETE set of unabridged Pea...
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Lynda, RIP
This feels strange, but when I have too large feelings I write, because it helps sort them through, and reading facebook memories has helped deal with today, so I sort of think this is ok to share....
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Blurbing Kitty
There’s a new book out with my name on the front cover. But it’s not by me. The first in a new series about first love and friendship by much-loved teen author Keris Stainton Sometimes the greatest...
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Pea’s Book of Holidays Design-A-Cover Giveaway – winner!
It’s Back To School time (for me too, sob) – but back in those heady days of summer, I asked you to design a fabulously Famous Five-y book cover to celebrate the new audiobook of PEA’S BOOK OF...
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What to do with your weekend
1. Buy mittens! Hemiplegia Awareness Week runs all next week: visit Hemihelp to find out how else you can get involved. 2. While you’re out mitten shopping, find yourself a bookshop and celebrate Books...
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Hot Narnia: Jordan’s Dana to Petra trek (and how it might – or might not –...
It seems unkind to my fellow sufferers of dreary old British November to even mention it, but… I’ve been on holiday. To a hot place. 8 days in Jordan, including a 6 day trek from Dana Reserve to Petra....
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Tumbling back to YA
For the last few years I’ve been happily writing books for 8-12s, about friendship and families, feelings and funny stuff. I plan to spend this year doing much the same. But it’s been lovely to dip a...
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The Secrets of Sam and Sam: COVER REVEAL!
Sometimes the loveliest things appear in your inbox when you aren’t expecting them at all. Next to an email telling you you’re finally allowed to show them to other people, instead of sitting on your...
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UKYAExtravaganza Eleganza!
35 authors. Tickets sold out within hours. More cake than has ever been gathered in one place before. The first ever UKYAExtravaganza took place in Birmingham on Saturday, and it was amaaaazing. It was...
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We have crisps. And bins, and Tescos, and trackie bums, and lots and lots of...
When I was small, one of my big sisters had an Indiana Jones lunchbox. It was metal, and rattly, and completely impractical for actual lunch-carrying purposes (unless you like your sandwiches to taste...
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Ten Alternative Titles
Inspired by Keren David, almost-author of UKYA novels ‘I’ve noticed your lipstick‘ and ‘Such Boring Clothes‘, I bring you the Ten Alternative Titles for The Secrets of Sam & Sam (out 30th July)....
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The Secrets of Sam & Sam: FAQ
What’s The Secrets of Sam & Sam all about? Sam and Sam are boy-girl twins, at the end of Year 6, about to set off on the school residential trip to Treetops Outdoors Activity Centre. And because...
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Timing
It’s back-to-school time right now. Starting-over time. I’m back at my desk to wrestle a draft into a book. Summer clothes, most unworn, are being packed away. My house has filled up with students. (I...
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Hemiplegia Awareness Week 2015
If you’ve read Pea’s Book of Holidays, you’ll already know a little about hemiplegia. Ghosthunter Ryan Munro, of Paranormal Investigations Edinburgh, joins Pea and family on the hunt for Corfe Castle’s...
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COVER REVEAL! The Secrets of Billie Bright
I’ve been sitting on this for a little while, and it has been agonising not to yell from every rooftop that I have the most beautiful, most special, most upliftingly lovely book cover to share. And now...
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COVER REVEAL: new jackets for all!
Remember when I showed you the amazing cover for my next book, The Secrets of Billie Bright? (It’s still a peach. I’m still crying. Aieeee.) And remember how I promised there were new amazing covers...
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More Secrets of Billie Bright + GIVEAWAY!
She’s here! The Secrets of Billie Bright is out now – as are all the shiny new covers of the Pea and Sams books. To celebrate, here are ten Billie Bright secrets: Billie has three older brothers. I do...
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Wishgranting
When I go into schools, I often tell people that I have the best job in the world. I get to spend all my time with imaginary friends. I get to be all of them: the good guys, the bad guys, the ones with...
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COVER REVEAL! The Secrets of the Superglue Sisters
Here we go again. I’m thrilled to reveal the gorgeously green cover of THE SECRETS OF THE SUPERGLUE SISTERS: Shy dancer Georgie and quirky, witchy Jem aren’t just best friends any more; now Georgie’s...
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Superglue, sunshine, and compassionate souls
I have a new book coming out! In two weeks! If only it wasn’t too hot for me to actually get excited. The UK is currently in the thrall of Actual Summer TM, aka a hideous sweaty nightmare in which we...
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