For ZA's 10-year anniversary, I thought a lot about what I learnt and how it changed me as an author.

Five years ago today, I released some of my favourite characters out into the world, and I can't believe it's been so long! Because I'm feeling nostalgic and self-indulgent - and also because it's Zombie Awareness Month - I thought this would be the perfect time to share my top five quotes from ZA. Enjoy, and I hope you're all staying ZA Ready! Thanks for indulging me. It's been a wild five years. Here's hoping I can tell you the rest of this story someday soon! You can get Z

I love all zombie media. Films, books, video games, TV shows, you name it. Strangely enough, I don't like horror usually, but if it's...

In this new world we find ourselves in, a record number of us are working from home. In fact, it's more than ever before. I'm sure most of you felt like I did on that very first day: petrified. I know I for one couldn't stop my head spinning. How are we all going to communicate? How can I combat loneliness? How do I keep my spirits up? How can I get all this done? How can I think about everything I need to think about at once? As someone who worked alone at home for two and a

In fairy tales and stories of the past, women were always the ones who needed saving. Not just in books, I might add. Look at Princess...

Happy World Book Day, everyone! This year I thought I'd celebrate by listing my top ten YA books released in the past five years. Okay,...

There are so many incredible authors out there, a great deal of them female, and I think YA is a genre that embraces that. There are over...

Happy World Book Day, everyone! I've done many lists here on this blog, and this year's no different. This year I've listed my top 25 YA...

Two weeks ago today, I finished my fourteenth book. As always, I tweeted about it to celebrate, and as always, I received an outpouring of support and congratulations from my fellow writers. (Writers really are an amazing support network.) People were telling me how many books they'd written and how long their longest ones were and generally just sharing the love of word counts like only authors can. @LouCadle took it even further. So that's exactly what I'm going to do :

I'm a little late with this seeing as we're already 16 days into 2018, but I've been so busy finishing my 14th book that nothing else...