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YA AUTHOR INTERVIEW: S.J. Morgan, author of #LoveOzYA debut, 'Heaven Sent'.

Welcome to Episode 9 of this blog series:

YA Authors in Conversation!

So this is the final YA author interview I'll be hosting for 2018, and I am so pleased to have local Adelaide debut author, S.J. Morgan on my blog, whose lovely contemporary #LoveOzYA novel, Heaven Sent, was released in October 2018.

I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did!

READ ON:
S.J. Morgan Interview:
Questions asked by Poppy Nwosu.


Your #LoveOzYA debut novel is a beautiful quiet contemporary set...

STORYTIME MONTHLY UPDATE: November 2018

Well a lot happened this month, the biggest thing ever basically being that I got to hold an ARC (Advance Reader Copy) of my actual book, Making Friends with Alice Dyson.

It is heavier than I expected, and just freaking beautiful, very bright and sweet and lovely.
 
So yeah, I’m pretty over the moon about that!
And realistically it has overshadowed all the other things I was doing this month. To be honest I can’t even remember them.

Did I even do anything else?
 
Nah.
 
I just stared at m...

COVER REVEAL: Making Friends with Alice Dyson by Poppy Nwosu

Well this is a moment I’ve been waiting for since forever.
Well six years maybe. Which included five years of trying to get published and the past almost year of getting this book ready to go with my publishers, Wakefield Press.
Which means obviously I’ve spent a lot of time imagining what kind of cover I would like for my book.
And you know what?
 
I really couldn’t have ever imagined anything as beautiful as this one!
 
I mean, check out my name on the cover!


It’s my name! On a book! T...

JOURNAL OF A DEBUT AUTHOR - CHAPTER FOUR: Does receiving a book contract change how you write new manuscripts?

Yes.
The short answer I have discovered is definitely yes.
 
I have touched on this topic previously in this post called: LEARNING TO LET AN AWFUL STORY GO: How do you know when to kill a work in progress?  

But I thought I would include it into my Debut Author series, as I think it is probably a fairly universal feeling for newly published or about to be published authors, and I guess I wanted to explore it a little further.

So here we go...


Of course everyone writes differentl...

YA AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Margot McGovern, author of #LoveOzYA debut, 'Neverland'.

Welcome to Episode 8 of this blog series:

YA Authors in Conversation!

I can't believe I'm up to 8 interviews already, how exciting!

And this month I am hosting #LoveOzYA debut author, and local Adelaide writer, Margot McGovern, author of the lyrical and raw 'Neverland'. 

I'm super excited to share this interesting interview!

READ ON Margot McGovern Interview:
Questions asked by Poppy Nwosu.


Your debut novel, Neverland, was released in 2018, and is a dark and searing exploration o...

BOOK MUSINGS: Some micro YA fiction reviews.

Here are some little micro reviews of some books I read recently, covering:
A lovely manuscript by a friend (Lyndall Clipstone)Rosemarked by Livia BlackburneLord of the Shadows by Cassandra ClareThe Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R PanMirage by Somaiya Daud

Aaaah. Reading. Lovely.
 
I read lots of cool stuff during the month of September, also a manuscript written by a friend which was quite amazing, a romantic fantasy, so that is very exciting. I wish it was an actua...

STORYTIME MONTHLY UPDATE: October 2018

Welcome to my monthly update!
Here I will waffle on for a short time about what I’ve been up to over the past month in terms of my writing progress, reading and a bit of general life stuff too.
 
So here we go :)

WRITING LIFE:
Oooh, let me break this down into sub sections!


Recently Finished Manuscript:
Well last month I completed a new YA manuscript, which is in the same vein as my soon to be published debut novel (so basically a cute and romantic contemporary) and had just sen...

JOURNAL OF A DEBUT AUTHOR - CHAPTER THREE: How I got a Literary Agent!

I am lucky enough now to not only have a YA debut novel coming out soon with Wakefield Press, but to have also secured a lovely literary agent, who is representing my other work.

This is a dream come true for me, and, if you have read my very first post in this series (which can be found HERE), you will also know it has been a long loooooong time coming.

In this post, I talk a bit about how I started working with an agent.


Choosing to have an agent is such a personal decisio...

SONGS AS POETRY: Cool.

Cool.
Troye Sivan.


but nothing is feeling right
I drink but I choke
I love but I don't

I was just trying to be cool
I was just trying to be like you

MY DEBUT NOVEL, Making Friends with Alice Dyson: An Introduction and Book Blurb.

I've been shouting it from the rooftops, so it's possible everybody already knows that my debut YA novel, Making Friends with Alice Dyson, is due to be released in March 2019.

Behind the scenes a lot has been going into the making of this novel, from rough manuscript to, very soon, actual published book! The whole thing has been such a strange but amazing experience.

Today I am SUPER pleased to share that my book is now up on Goodreads, so if you feel like it you can add it to your...