THE NIGHT ITSELF SNIPPET

Hello my lovelies! I hope you are all having a delightful, or at least survivable, week so far. Today I realised that we passed an important threshold without realising it. Last Tuesday it was officially ONE HUNDRED days until the release of The Night Itself ! No, really! Which means that today it's only NINETY-ONE days, which sounds far less impressive and important. So I decided to belatedly commemorate this important date by teasing you with a new snippet of The Night Itself . Are you up for that? Sorry, I can't quite hear...? Oh, all right then, there's no need to shout.

Read On.


Foxes with multiple tails. Foxes as tiny as house cats. Foxes as big as wolves. White foxes, black foxes, grey foxes, red foxes. Foxes with giant, tufted ears, foxes with narrow, cruel-looking muzzles that reminded me of dingoes. There must have been a thousand Kitsune here, so many that even this giant place felt crammed. And every one of them was staring at us. Their whispers echoed through the space under the trees like the sound of the tide rushing in.

*Cackles evilly* Just ninety-one days, my duckies!

Oh! Something else exciting to tell you about! I've just become part of a new group blog called Author Allsorts , which aims to showcase the talents of a variety of British children's authors, from those who create picturebooks to those who write YA novels. There are some amazing people involved, most especially the founding members Emma Pass and Kate Ormand, who organised everything and got all the rest of us involved. Whenever I blog on Author Allsorts I'll post a link here too so that you can get your usual helping of Zolah goodness, just in a different location.


And that's about it for today, except to say thank you so very much (if you're around today) to the readers who've sent me such lovely emails and comments over the last week or so. I don't know if there's something in the water, but boy, it's been nice!