Best Friends Forever winners!

Hi Girls! Thanks to all of you who entered the Totally Lucy – Best Friends Forever comp! The winners are (drum roll, please!) Naomi Murrell, Cliona Keely and Catherine Hall. Congratulations and happy reading! Lots of love, Kellyxxx Continue reading →

Ice Princess winners!

Using a random-number generator (my mum on the phone, picking numbers without a clue what they were for), I have selected five lucky winners! Orli Vogt-Vincent, Shakira Saleem, Fatima Sheikh-Nur, Kulsuma Begum and Chloe Smith each win a copy of ICE PRINCESS – the first book in the Skate School series. Smashing Usborne will be sending out copies … Continue reading →

Guest Blogger: Emma Barnes

Secret Me I’m often asked if I base my characters on real people.  And more specifically if my main characters are based on me. “Definitely not!” I reply.  “They couldn’t be more different.” Take Jessica, in Jessica Haggerthwaite: Witch Dispatcher.   She’s a confident go-getter who makes things happen.  She loves science and wants to win … Continue reading →

When I grow up…

This time next week, I have to stand up in front of hundreds of Bristol uni students, and tell them why I’m a writer. Which has led me to question many things e.g. my sanity when I agreed to do this, but most of all, why exactly I am a writer. Because when I was … Continue reading →