That cover 🤤
With only two weeks until #TheSacrificeBox hits shelves in the US, Barnaby is on the move...
Very pleased to share the first episode of my new podcast, Four Books! Link in bio. Each episode, I’ll be interviewing a person of interest to find out which four books they’d take with them if they were beamed aboard an alien spaceship. It’s Desert Island Discs for bibliophiles, and I’m so excited about it. Episode one is now live on my website, with the iTunes link to follow. Download it to hear which Four Books @alicecrumbs chose for the spaceship, and for a fascinating insight into the creative process of one of UK YA’s brightest talents.
Barnaby hanging out beside my newly-signed @alicecrumbs books. I met Alice at @edbookfest this weekend and had a brilliant chat about books, writing and the writing life. . More about which soon!
This was the end of the queue for Philip Pullman’s event last night — the entire way around Charlotte Square — and this was our seat for the man himself. Could listen to him talk all day, it was brilliant. . One of the best lines came from the chair, Val McDermid, on why a dog dæmon doesn’t meant you’re stuck socially as a servent, or even predestined to be one: ‘a genetic tendency towards alcoholism doesn’t mean you’re going to be an alcoholic,’ she said, ‘but you can try.’ #booksbooksbooks #edbookfest #bookfestival #authorevent #philippullman #writing
Edinburgh Book Festival 2018 — got our lanyards! #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #author #authorevent #edbookfest #books
Letter to my grandmother, then just turned nineteen, from her father. Just come across a whole cache of these — an amazing piece of family history, and so charming.
Amazing to see stuff like this: #TheSacrificeBox on @barnesandnoble’s picks for August. Love the copy! . Releases 28th August in the states, in beautiful hardcover. One of which I’ll be giving away here, and on twitter, soon! #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #YA #UKYA #horcomrom #fiction #teenfiction #horror #80s #retro