We have a cracking end to Spooky Season with a Q&A with author Derek Landy! Skulduggery Pleasant is a widely popular series and now has its first graphic novel to read! Check out our Q&A below and have a safe and happy Halloween. HOW HAVE YOU FOUND THE SHIFT BFROM WRITING BOOKS TO GRAPHIC NOVELS? […]
Jack Meggitt-Phillips is the internationally bestselling author of the monstrously funny The Beast and the Bethany books. The latest book in the series, The Beast and the Bethany: Child of the Beast is out now. Here, Jack talks us through how he sources ideas for his books . . . Isn’t it marvellous when things […]
We have a brilliant guest blog from author Jo Simmons about her spooky books, The Reluctant Vampire Queen and The Reluctant Vampire Queen Bites Back. My recent teen books, The Reluctant Vampire Queen and The Reluctant Vampire Queen Bites Back, published in 2022 and 2023, sit firmly in spooky territory. I mean, obviously! They feature […]
Spooky Season continues with a new title sure to thrill and chill! Check out our guest blog from Ciannon Smart, author of Rayleigh Mann in the Company of Monsters. Something Spooky this way comes . . . It might be a relief to learn that I wasn’t always fond of monsters. When I was a […]
Spooky Season continues today with a guest blog from Alex Bell, author of The Train of Dark Wonders, an exciting and spooky story! One of the things I enjoyed most about books when I was a child was the tightknit friendships you often found between the main characters. Not only did they go on incredible […]
Welcome to Spooky Season on the FCBG Blog! For the rest of the month we are featuring titles that are sure to scare, thrill and chill! We kick off Spooky Season with a Q&A with author Lisi Harrison about her new series, Graveyard Girls. Where did the idea come from to develop a slightly […]
The judges of the inaugural Inclusive Books for Children Award were announced this morning! Read on for further details! JUDGES REVEALED FOR INAUGURAL INCLUSIVE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AWARDS, WITH A TOTAL PRIZE FUND OF £30,000 FOR BEST BOOKS DEMONSTRATING INCLUSIVITY New charity, Inclusive Books for Children (IBC) announces an illustrious judging panel for its inaugural […]
I wrote the first draft of Best Friends Forever (back then known by its working title ‘Sugar Dirt’) with no real sense of what it was, or whom exactly it was for. It was Autumn 2021 and having struggled to make any real headway with the Young Adult project I’d been working on throughout […]
Tell us about the concept of your debut Totally Deceased? Totally Deceased is a funny supernatural YA murder mystery where seventeen-year-old Jess wakes from an emergency heart transplant to find she’s being haunted by her donor. High-maintenance trust fund teen Tilly is convinced she was murdered and refuses to rest in peace until Jess agrees to […]
Author and illustrator, Giselle Clarkson shares some insights into her new book and why she was inspired to create it. Over the past year, when people asked my what my upcoming book was about I would struggle to summarise it. As the title suggests, The Observologist is primarily about being observant – but it’s not […]
