BONESMITH is a bestseller + UK Trip!

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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

I have lots of things to update you on, but first…BONESMITH is a bestseller in the UK!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 It debuted at #2 on the Sunday Times children’s bestseller list, and is the #1 YA book on the list.

I woke up to a text from my agent with the exciting news, since my team in London is 5 hours ahead (also, I was being lazy and sleeping in––part of my post-deadline, post-launch recovery), and then later, I got these:

I have always been envious of authors who get flowers sent to them by their publishers (I’ve also been envious of bestsellers, obviously!!!) so it’s a bit surreal to suddenly be one of them 🥺

I haven’t really done much celebrating because in case you missed it…

I’M OFF TO THE UK!!!!

I already had a trip planned to London and Scotland before I hit the bestseller list, but now I get to celebrate with my UK publisher and the UK readers who made it happen! If you’re in London next week, I hope I’ll see you there!

You can get more info on both events here.

After London I’ll be traveling up to Scotland, but I don’t have any official events happening there. Still, I’ll be at the Edinburgh Book Festival on Saturday, August 12th, so please come say hi if you see me there!

NEWS & UPDATES

Amazon Editor’s Pick

I was thrilled to discover that BONESMITH is an Editor’s Pick on Amazon for the month of July! I’ve never had a grey banner before, so that’s something else to scratch off the author bucket list!

Speaking of Amazon…

If any of you have read BONESMITH yet, I would so appreciate if you could post a review online. I’m sure you’ve heard this before but reviews boost algorithms on retail sites, which helps readers find the book. It doesn’t have to be long or fancy. A sentence would work! Thank you 😊

French Edition

My French publisher Lumen announced their edition of BONESMITH, which will publish September 7th! They also bought the rights to the sequel, which I assume will publish sometime next year.

I have more foreign fights news, but I can’t share yet. Stay tuned!

The Bookish Box Special Edition

Ahhhh I am so excited to share images of the Bookish Box’s special edition of BONESMITH!!!!! It is absolutely stunning, and available for purchase here.

PRESS

I had some press items come out since we last spoke! I did a Q&A with The Nerd Daily and there’s a review/interview with Paste Magazine.

I also did an interview with Demythifying Podcast! We had a great chat, so I hope you’ll check it out.

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📚 CURRENTLY READING

• The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles - This was a delightful queer historical romance, and I loved the glimpse into the world of “free trading” or smuggling!

• The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

  David K. Randall - This is a non-fiction book about the history of paleontology (I’m a dinosaur nerd, in case you didn’t know) and I have loved learning about the “Bone Wars” and the “Great Dinosaur Rush” (I mean, those terms, COME ON) and I am getting lots of exciting plot bunnies…

📺 CURRENTLY WATCHING

• Heartstopper: Season Two is cued up and ready to watch on my flight!

• I also just started watching Sandman and am very intrigued to see where this story goes!

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Okay, I think that’s finally it! Please drop any questions or comments you have below!

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