Oh Lordy.

It’s 2017. It’s May. And we are a little bit excited here at Blowfish.

Why?

Because the widely anticipated sequel to Bad Blood Part One is out next month. It’s dark and ugly and its takes no prisoners. It’s told from both Ben and Sophy’s points of view. Ben’s in...

An interview with the very lovely Georgina Tranter about my forthcoming appearance at the UKYA extravaganza in Newcastle. Very excited!

Any advice to anyone dreaming of becoming an author?

It’s like any other goal in life, the first thing is to just start: to t...

When Librarian Mrs Ward asked me to say a few words about reading to a group of lovely Year 7 eager readers (chaired by SF Said) I wondered about where to start. And it seemed only natural to start in bed, lying on my side, covers pulled up, the warm glow of my bedside...

So. #amrewriting.

More brutally exacting than #amwriting.

Less enjoyably forensic than #amediting.

In the case of my sci-fi novel Summer at the Methane Lakes (to be published by Blowfish Books in December), it’s a root and branch restructuring: I’ve got a more coherent pl...

Heavens to Betsy. I have the book in my hot little hands. All the way from our lovely printers in Poland – Say hi, Walter!

The book took a long time to write, but as ever, the voice of the main character, Ben, came galloping at me, insisting I write down his words. He d...

In the last six months (post Carnegie-nom) I’ve visited a whole heap of schools. Been given lanyards, signed in, led down corridors, waited in libraries, been stared at by students. I have met many school librarians who, for my money, have to be some of the nicest peop...

Funny how things can just wallop you out of the blue when you least expect it – good and bad. And when I opened my inbox last Thursday, the last – the very last thing – I was expecting, was a Carnegie nomination for The Edge of Me.

I’ve written before about going it alo...

Well, we did it and we did it large style. Consider The Edge of Me graduated! A really splendid celebration of Blowfish Books, of the two of us doing it for ourselves, and of course, of The Edge. Thank you so much to the serene and wonderful Imogen Green for letting us...

1. This books centres on the tragedies of the Bosnian War. Did the nature of this context present any challenges in the writing process?

In a way, because it is still so close, so charged, so raw in so many people’s memories – there are still over nine thousand people m...

I love Twitter.

I love the discipline. I love the badass stuff. I love the pictures. It’s mostly original, mostly unmediated, and connects you with interesting people all over the planet. Twitter is how I stumbled on Kevin Sullivan.

Kevin works for the International Comm...