Award news

February 14, 2011

I’m thrilled to announce that BOYS, BEARS & A SERIOUS PAIR OF HIKING BOOTS has been named the YA winner of the Green Earth Book Award 2011!
Awarded by the Newton Marasco Foundation, the award recognizes messages of positive environmental stewardship.
“Taking time to read to our kids is time well spent. The 2011 award winning books will [...]

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2011

January 1, 2011

Happy New Year, everyone!
I hope you’re all excited about the year ahead, and making excellent resolutions that involve fun, and building on the year that’s just passed. 2010 was a big, busy year for me. I had two novels published – BOYS, BEARS & A SERIOUS PAIR OF HIKING BOOTS, and THE LIBERATION OF ALICE [...]

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Guest blog

October 12, 2010

Just a note to say I’m the guest blogger at the Teens Read Too bookclub. Drop by to read my interview, find out more about my 2011 YA release ‘The Anti-Prom’, and win some shiny book-shaped prizes!

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Winner

July 13, 2010

The competition is now closed. Congrats Lija, you were picked by the nifty random number generator, and win copies of The Popularity Rules and The Liberation of Alice Love! Email me with your info, and I’ll get those out to you soon.

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Competition + first review of The Liberation of Alice Love…

July 6, 2010

…And it’s great!
Closer Magazine give it 4 STARS!
“Lawyer Alice gets a big shock when she finds out <SPOILER>  has emptied her accounts and run up debts in her name. So what does Alice do? Trail the thief across the world with the help of a hunky fraud investigator, of course!
Refreshing, fun and sexy, this is [...]

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New deal news!

June 24, 2010

Drumroll please…
Author of SOPHOMORE SWITCH and BOYS, BEARS & A SERIOUS PAIR OF HIKING BOOTS Abby McDonald’s GETTING OVER GARRETT DELANEY, about a head-strong, dramatic teen who decides to kick her unrequited crush for good – with the help of her quirky co-workers, the boy least likely, and her very own summer twelve-step program, to Liz [...]

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Vacation

June 20, 2010

I was going to write a post about what I got up to on vacation, but it turned out, my intrepid girl explorer did it for me at ThisRecording – with added literary musings.
The Brit and I got sloshed on desert cocktails. We wore our prettiest girl outfits and flirted shamelessly with the bartenders. Fortified [...]

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Competition time!

April 8, 2010

*** CLOSED! STAY TUNED FOR WINNER ***
To celebrate the release of Boys, Bears & a Serious Pair of hiking boots, I’m giving away a fabulous signed gift pack. You’ll get a shiny hard-cover copy of Boys, Bears… PLUS a cute paperback of Sophomore Switch too!
To enter, just comment below, telling me about the best – [...]

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O Canada

April 1, 2010

For me, locations aren’t so much a backdrop in my novels, but more a main character in themselves. Whether it’s a city, neighbourhood, park or party, often, I’ll think up settings I want to use first, and then craft scenes around them. Sometimes I find myself going off in new (geographic) directions just because I [...]

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Set for Spring

March 26, 2010

Yes, that’s a bright new colour scheme you see, to tie in with my next YA book release! ‘Boys, Bears & A Serious Pair of Hiking Boots’ (which has to be the most twitter-unfriendly title ever) will be hitting stores April 13th, and I can’t wait.
A story of summer fun, environmentalism, romance, hilarious kayaking adventures [...]

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