Kiss Date Love Hate - it's a book!

Here it is… Kiss Date Love Hate – the actual book!

 

Kiss Date Love Hate on the bookshelf.

 

Available everywhere from 2nd February 2012.

Hurray!

 

 

accents and audiobooks on Girls Heart Books

Swapped by a Kiss audiobookI’m on Girls Heart Books talking about accents, with samples from the Split by a Kiss and Swapped by a Kiss audiobooks.

Visit Girls Heart Books to read the post.

Booktrust - my tips on book reviewing and blogging

BooktrustBooktrust have revamped their excellent site to provide even greater resources for readers of all ages, including writing tips for teenagers. They kindly invited me to give tips on book reviewing and blogging, and you can now read these on the site.

Tips for Starting a Book Blog

Tips for Writing Book Reviews

Booktrust main page

Funny words and retro games

I’ve been busy on the joint blogs this week!

I wrote for Girls Heart Books about the time when aliens invaded Planet Earth. Don’t panic – it’s really about retro computer games. Read it at Girls Heart Books.

And today I’m on Read It And Laugh talking about funny words.

Read It And Laugh is a new multi-author blog focusing on the lighter, funnier side of fiction for young adults. It features authors including me, Amanda Ashby, Kimberly Pauley, Niki Burnham, Tom Clempson, Greg R. Fishbone, Ebony McKenna, Shana Norris, Marlene Perez and Janette Rallison, together with guest authors. There’s a great book giveaway running until the end of November 2011 if you’d like to nominate your favourite funny books.

Read It And Laugh.

British Month at Fluttering Butterflies - and a giveaway!

Fluttering Butterflies British authors monthFluttering Butterflies book blog is running a month celebrating British authors, and today she has reviewed Extreme Kissing and hosted a guest post by me about the British settings of this book and Swapped by a Kiss. There’s also a giveaway of a copy of Extreme Kissing, with a closing date of 30th November 2011.

Read the review of Extreme Kissing.

Enter the giveaway.

Check out Fluttering Butterflies all month (and beyond)!

Edited to add: Here’s my second post for Fluttering Butterflies British Month: Confessions of a British Word Nerd

Swapped by a Kiss on audio

Swapped by a Kiss audiobook

Swapped by a Kiss is now available as an audiobook on CD, narrated by Penny Rawlins, who also read the Split by a Kiss audiobook. She’s equally brilliant at US and UK accents!

Listen to a sample of Rachel’s story at Whole Story Audio – Swapped by a Kiss, or click below.

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Swapped by a Kiss is also available – and you can hear a free sample – at Audible UK and Audible US.

Swapped by a Kiss audiobook

Readathon launch at KEVICC

I was recently involved in a school library Readathon launch.You can see pics of me in the slideshow below, and read more about it at the King Edward VI Community College site.

KEVICC visit, Girls Heart Books, Bookhi and Steph Bowe

I’m on Girls Heart Books following my recent school visit to King Edward VI Community College, with brilliant contributions from the students in answer to the question “Why read?”

This was inspired by an interview with me at Bookhi.

I’m also on teen author Steph Bowe’s fab blog as part of her Writing Bootcamp, with advice on how to revive your novel.

Picture above reproduced with kind permission of Classroom Free.

Thanks to Zoe, Steph and Classroom Free!

 

Holsworthy Community College visit

Appledore Book Festival 2011Big thanks to Holsworthy Community College for a warm welcome today and loads of great questions!

In case any of the students are reading this page after today’s visit, the links I mentioned during my talk are: Chicklish – teen book review site, and Girls Heart Books – group author blog.

I visited Holsworthy as part of the schools programme for the Appledore Book Festival, so huge thanks to them, too!

My Girls Heart Books post about names and more...

Girls heart books

I’m on Girls Heart Books today, talking about finding your name in other people’s stories…

Read all about it.

You can catch up on all my past Girls Heart Books posts, too.