Would Your Child (Or You) Like To Be An ARC Reader?

Fancy being an ARC reader for me?

I’m coming to the end of the second draft of my new book for Young Adults, which I’m currently thinking might be for 8-12 year olds, the feedback so far really made me laugh, especially:

"It’s A Series of Unfortunate Events meets The Thick Of It”

which I think is pretty darn accurate.

I wrote the book for my daughter after we had a long and (I thought) interesting conversation on election day, about how democracy works, which included diagrams, YouTube clips of famous speeches and lived experience galore. At the end, I put down my pen, my face shining with the joyous light of warm, fatherly instruction and looked at her as she said, “I’ve never been so bored.”

In revenge, I’ve written this book for her.

I also think it may have the best first line I’ve ever written. Possibly that’s ever been written.

Obviously, I’m wondering how this sort of explosive start will sit with 8-12-year-olds and so I’m asking my existing readers if their younglings would like to be an ARC reader for this book. You’d get the book quite soon (end of the first week in June, possibly sooner) and I’d need feedback by the end of June. If you have a child of that age (or roughly around there) or you yourself love reading YA books then please fill out this form and I’ll be in touch.