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Five Things

By on July 27, 2011 in blog

1. I am not dead!  But I have been pathetically quiet lately, due to the typey parts of my brain being busy with TWO honking great book deadlines.

2. I have met my deadlines! Both of them! Whole bookfuls of words with beginnings and middles and ends and everything.

Balloon

Here is a balloon, because I am quite happy about Thing number 2.

3. EXCITING NEW BIT: one of the books even has a shiny new title! The Series Formerly Known as Mermaid Girls (which you may have encountered me waffling about here) is not being called that, because that’s a stupid name for a book that doesn’t actually have any mermaids in it. (I know. One day I will get better at titles.) Luckily, the kind people at Random House did the hard bit for me, and the first book in the series will be called…

PEA’S BOOK OF BEST FRIENDS.

Isn’t it lovely? I’d read that. There will be a second Pea’s Book out in 2012 too, and another one after that. I haven’t written them yet. This is not at all scary. LOOK AT THE BALLOON. KEEP LOOKING AT THE BALLOON.

4. I have been on holiday! To Corfe Castle in Dorset, which is allegedly the template for Kirrin Castle in the Famous Five stories.

Susie in Corfe Castle

Me, in a castle! Do not even ask me what is going on with my hair. I'm in a castle!

I was with littlest niece SP and littlest nephew ESP and their lovely parentals, which meant lots of sandcastles and picture books and MONKEY WORLD, and grown-up conversation in the evenings. It was ACE.

5. There is no number 5. Or rather, there are a billion number 5s because I haven’t blogged in ages, and have since read many lovable things (Cat Clarke and Liz Kessler and Ally Carter and Keris Stainton and a Cory Doctorow from 2003 that is so entirely about e-publishing right now this second that it makes your head hurt), and watched much intriguing telly (New Doctor Who, and New Torchwood, and The Shadow Line (oh Gatehouse, my Gatehouse), and loads of Fringe, and insane amounts of Leverage, several times over), and exciting things have occurred like my kitchen no longer being painted Angry Daffodil, and the discovery that Bananagrams is the best. game. ever. until really whittling them down to one would be silly.

So. Five things. Ish. LOOK AT THE BALLOON!

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Splishy Splashy News

By on January 4, 2011 in blog, herring, mermaid girls, project bluebell

BIG NEWS! I’m thrilled to announce my new series MERMAID GIRLS, for readers aged 9+, will be published by Random House Children’s Books next year.

Hey Sus, why in the heckity heck are you writing about mermaids all of a sudden?

I’m not. The MERMAID GIRLS series is about 11-year-old Pea and her sisters Clover and Tinkerbell, and none of them have tails. Or fins. And Pea can’t swim. Their mum, however, is a bestselling super-author-type-lady of a series of books called MERMAID GIRLS, so, you know, title.

Bummer. I wanted there to be Actual Mermaids!

Oh. You should read Marina Cove’s MERMAID GIRLS series, except I made it up so you can’t. Sorry. (Pea has a guilty suspicion they might not be the good, improving sort of books anyway.)

OK. Where can I buy your MERMAID GIRLS book which is apparently not about mermaids at all?

You can’t, because I haven’t finished it yet. The first book will be out in 2012, and maybe the second as well if I behave myself. I EXIST TO MAKE YOU SAD.

I AM NOW SAD. Why are you even telling me about these books which I can’t read and aren’t about mermaids?

It convinces my Mum that I have a proper job. Also, I’ll probably mention them here on the blog and on Facebook, and I thought you might be interested to see how they’re going. Also, I might be accidentally spending all my time eating noodles and watching Due South reruns, and I’ll need keen, prodding sorts of people to poke me and remind me to do some typing every now and then. (Pea makes Special Writing Tea for her mum. I may have to advertise for a Pea of my own.)

BUT BUT BUT I’m not aged 9-12. What happened to your teen/YA books?

I’m still working on a GORGEOUS new summery book for teens, which will be published by Marion Lloyd Books (Scholastic) in 2012 too. It’s about Bluebell, who makes a wish on her 13th birthday and gets a very unexpected present: herself, aged 14. Shenanigans ensue. The shenanigans involve Welsh beaches, top-hatted boys named Merlin, and being IMMERSED IN MOULD. I promise to tell you all about that book too, because it’s lovely.

Wow. It sounds like you have a lot of books to write, Sus.

Yeah.

Should you be getting on with that, then?

Um. Yeah.

What’s that noise?

Dunno. Typing, probably. That’ll be it. IT WOULD IN NO WAY BE THE THEME MUSIC OF DUE SOUTH.

Wish me luck? :D

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