There are some teenagers who contact me when they’re worried about something and, of course, I always try to help. This time, I need your
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When book festivals pay and when they don’t
Yup, that old issue again. Thing is, it just doesn’t go away. I’m going to sing the praises of two book festivals, one very large (Edinburgh)
Don’t fear bleak books for teenagers – and why we do
I rarely review books but I did when Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks first came out, so I’m on record as thinking it brilliant and brave.
Scarcity, bandwidth and preoccupation
In the last issue of Scientific American Mind, I was struck by an article called Freeing Up Intelligence, with the subtitle, “A preoccupation with scarcity
A 16-year-old reviews The Passionflower Massacre and Sleepwalking
I was contacted a few months ago on Twitter by 16-year-old Charlea Harrison, who had read and loved Write to be Published (though it’s aimed
Sleepwalking – Dystopian YA before it was so trendy
People talk a lot about the current vogue for dystopian YA. Well, Sleepwalking was exactly that, published nine years ago. And now (well, next Monday)