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		<title>Being held by Chris Evans&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I was hugely excited on Friday night when a friend tweeted me to tell me that there was a picture of one of my books on the BBC Radio 2 website. Being held by Chris Evans, no less! You can see the hands on the Scattering Like Light cover in the picture above. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Libraries Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is National Libraries Day, so I wanted to tell you a bit about the influence that libraries have had on me. When I was young I lived in a house full of books which seemed to be mostly for adults or directed towards boys (I have two brothers). I read everything I could lay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sold Out!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I’ve been doing school visits again over the last few weeks, supporting the launch of Scattering Like Light. It’s part of my role as a writer which I enjoy enormously, meeting all the readers and getting feedback. Today’s talk, in Tunbridge Wells, was particularly exciting because we actually sold out of books! Every copy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday was the launch of Scattering Like Light, and on Friday I was invited to talk about the books on BBC Radio Kent, on the Pat Marsh Show. I’d never done a radio interview before, and the fact that it was going out live made it even worse! I was incredibly nervous but everyone at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publication day&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It’s the 12th January 2012, and it’s finally publication day for the last book, Scattering Like Light. Spookily, it’s almost exactly a year since the first book in the trilogy was published – that came out on the 13th January last year, and even more weirdly it’s exactly, to the day, two years since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello 2012!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ So, 2012 is finally here, and it’s just days now until Scattering Like Light is on the shelves. It’s an exciting moment and hopefully will mark the start of another fantastic year. It will be hard to beat 2011 though, which was one of my best:  Small Blue Thing was published in January, I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scattering Like Light is nearly here!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just the week before Christmas the copies of Scattering Like Light were printed, and I got sent a few copies to give away as special presents. The first one went to Ellie (obviously!), and then I gave some to my nieces, Julia and Beth. Here&#8217;s a picture of Julia and Ellie with their books. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Giveaway!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Hi, This is a very quick post to let you know that there is a fabulous book giveaway over on the Girls Heart Books website &#8211; 10 copies each of Small Blue Thing and Perfectly Reflected! Go and see if you can win &#8211; I bet you all know the answer to the question [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A completely different Small Blue Thing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A part of my job which I really enjoy is school visits. I talk to year groups about how I wrote my books, what they are about and where I get my inspiration. They are always a lot of fun and I am constantly amazed at the range of questions which come up. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Proof</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Before I started writing I had given very little thought to the process that a book has to go through after it leaves my laptop and before it gets to you.  Sure, someone has to edit it, check the grammar and the continuity, but that’s all, surely? How wrong I was.  I happened to [...]]]></description>
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