Author: Natasha Ngan
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The Memory Keepers Cover Reveal!
GUYS I’M SO EXCITED! Today I get to share with you the cover for my second novel, The Memory Keepers – and isn’t it absolutely beautiful! When Hot Key showed me the cover they’d made for The Elites, I didn’t think it could get much better. But then this came along. Huge props to Jan…
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Page Proofs!
Looky looky look! How beautiful do this bad boy look? Receiving page proofs from my publisher is one of my favourite parts of the process. It’s the first time you see your story looking like a proper book, and words you’ve read over and over again now look fresh and new. However, it’s also a…
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Writing Description Checklist
(Originally posted over at Author Allsorts) Every writer has a different style when it comes to description. Some use only a minimal amount, focusing instead on action and dialogue, with short, sharp bursts of description to ground it all. Others really build it up, winding their narrative around atmospheric writing that’s so alive it’s almost…
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Exciting News!
Drumroll please lovely readers, because I have truly exciting news that I’m finally allowed to announce! You might have heard already if you’re up to date on all things YA, but Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman has organised YALC, the UK’s very first young adult literature convention, and me? I’m in it. YALC will take place…
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Book Review: Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
A stunning novel about the power of hatred, revenge – and love. Goodreads | Amazon They say I’m evil. The police. The newspapers. The girls from school who sigh on the six o’clock news and say they always knew there was something not quite right about me. And everyone believes it. Including you. But you…