Everything About You – launch!
Launch day!
Everything About You finally hit the shelves today, and signings took place at Goldboro books in London and Forbidden Planet London and Bristol.
I’m delighted to share this news that THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF LOVE has been signed by award-winning, climate-positive publisher SRL. The book is about a shy tunnel engineer whose best friend is trapped on a reality television show, based in a shiny new country where popularity is prized above all else.
Arlo Knott is finally out in the world, having been launched at a sell-out event at Storysmith Books, Bristol. With fabulous hosting from Hugo award-winning sci-fi critic and publisher Cheryl Morgan, we talked about having an undo button for life, plus the power of hindsight, quantum physics and snakes and ladders. The room was packed…
PRESS RELEASE | 18 May 2017 Little, Brown Book Group imprint Orbit is delighted to announce the acquisition of Smartface, an exceptional debut by Bristol-based author Heather Child. Senior commissioning editor Jenni Hill acquired world rights in two crossover novels from Julie Crisp of the Julie Crisp Literary Agency, and Smartface will be published…
Local authors for local people: Forbidden Planet Bristol set up this excellent table display… You can see Everything About You reviewed in the Daily Mail, Sunday Sport and Guardian. One of my favourites is this intelligent and insightful review from Blue Book Balloon. “We can, if we want, keep the option of living our own…
It’s been a strange year – one of those authors go through sometimes – in which novel-writing has been slow or tricky, and instead I’ve done what I term the ‘marginalia’ of a writer’s life – other things that around the margins of writing actual books. So this year, I’ve been a mentor on the…