Authonomy-based excitement!

From December 18th to January 2nd, The Boy From The Next Dimension will be reviewed by Authonomy's Young Adult Literature Forum!

I've not looked at TBFTND for a while now, with the intention of looking back over it later with a less attached eye - now, I can see that it's in need of a makeover, so hopefully the wonderful YALFers will be able to give me some guidance on exactly where to get started with that!

To finish, I'd like to mention an amazing book that I've just finished reading: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. It's exciting, it's intelligent, it's romantic, it's funny... I started the sequel last night and it promises to be as good as the first book!

Isabel :)

Let there be blog posts!

So, after a long period of silence, I have returned to the blogosphere and I bring, with my return, the synopsis of my new book Etiquette. I said a while ago that I'd post the synopsis if I became confident that the story was going somewhere, and I think it probably is. Where it's going, I don't know, but time will tell. Here's the synopsis, without further ado:

One girl's mission to become a lady...

When Cam is made to swap her modern school of two thousand pupils for a three-hundred year old boarding school in the countryside, she is sure that she knows what to expect: serious girls whose hobbies don't extend beyond Latin and chess and buying sensible knee-length skirts.
But she's faced with a very different reality and her past experiences are rendered useless in the glamorous place, where lunch doubles up as an etiquette lesson and incorrect napkin placement can grant you social exclusion.
Cam finds friends who take it upon themselves to remodel her into the elegant, upstanding Camilla - but it's not easy. Cam wears nothing but jeans and has never eaten a canape in her life.

I've written about 17,000 words and it will soon be readable on Authonomy :)