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These books will save your life
OK. So that’s a slight exaggeration. What I really meant to say was “these books will make you laugh / cry and thus fill an afternoon that would otherwise have to be spent nodding as Auntie Felicity shows your 400 … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarice Bean, David Levithan, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Grace Dent, Joan Aiken, Joanna Nadin, Meg Cabot, Nick and Norah, Rachel Riley
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Back to the start…
So, it’s New Year. And there’s the usual rash of ill-thought-out resolutions and promises e.g. I absolutely will use that pink step machine I bought in a fit of crisp-induced madness for at least fifteen minutes every day. But for … Continue reading
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Tagged Chick Lit, Joanna Nadin, My So-Called Life, Rachel Riley, Saffron Walden, Teen Lit
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Irresolutions
This traditionally the time of year when I write myself a to-do list of utterly unachievable tasks e.g. a) Learn to like milk b) Remember to take vitamins c) Wear sensible shoes d) And pants e) Train menace to use … Continue reading
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Funny girl
You know some weeks, everything goes a bit pants, and you end up sniveling into a cherry coke and packet of minstrels while watching The Princess Diaries and cursing boys/mothers/small children with a tendency to poo in inappropriate places? Well, … Continue reading
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I AM Buttercup Jones (and Lola, and quite a few other characters too)
It’s the nature of writing that every heroine I have conjured up, from Penny Dreadful to Rachel Riley has a little of me in her. In the case of Rachel, pretty much all of me. So much so, that when … Continue reading
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Buttercup Jones meet the World
OMG. Buttercup Mash is published, like, TODAY, and I am NOT EVEN JOKING. It’s on bookshelves in shops, and on Amazon, and everything, which, like I KNOW. I mean, seriously, have they no IDEA how OFF THE SCALE this is. … Continue reading
Penny Dreadful is unleashed
Not content with appearing at Hay not once, but twice this week, I also have a sickening three books out, the first of which, Penny Dreadful, is unleashed on an unsuspecting public today. Her name isn’t actually Dreadful, it’s Jones. … Continue reading
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Making Hay (and the sun had better shine)
I love being a writer. I love being able to wear my pyjamas or a ballgown to work (and believe me, I have done both), without anyone but a seven year old telling me I am dressing inappropriately (although usually … Continue reading
Richard and Judy
There is no way of saying this without blowing my own trumpet, so cover your ears if you don’t like the noise, but ‘Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me has been picked for the Richard and Judy Summer Book Club, … Continue reading
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Buttercup 2: Return of the crazy
Dear Dr Sven OK, so it’s, like, nine days until publication, not that I’m counting or anything, but, well, yes I am actually, wouldn’t you? I mean, it’s the biggest thing to happen to me since Rachel Riley messed it … Continue reading
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Tagged Buttercup Mash, Glee, Joanna Nadin, new book, Rachel Riley, teen book
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Joanna Nadin 