by evemmitchell154 | Sep 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
In 2012, my comedy teen novel ‘The Art of Kissing Frogs’ was shortlisted for the Greenhouse Funny Prize. This was key moment for me. After years of rejection – and after having more rejections than Mary Berry has had cakes – I really thought I’d got somewhere. I...
by evemmitchell154 | Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
To be honest, I’m not an author who is particularly inspired by places. I normally write in the same place every day, an over-crowded desk, cluttered with books, pens and sweet wrappers – usually with the soft drone of Eighties music playing in the background. I’m...
by evemmitchell154 | Sep 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
To celebrate Kicking Off coming out this week, I’m going to share some fun Dick Kerr Girl facts with you. 1. The girls played football to raise money for injured soldiers in WW1. They raised about £180,000, which would be around £10 million today. 2. The Dick...
by evemmitchell154 | Aug 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Just Another Little Lie (Barrington Stoke) is out today (6 August 2020) and is available in all good bookshops and online retailers. Violet’s mum hasn’t been herself for a while. A few too many glasses of wine in the evening. Mornings when she can’t...
by evemmitchell154 | Aug 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’m so excited that Kicking Off, the first of my Dick Kerr Girl’s series will be published on the 3rd of September 2020. The series is based on the true life events of one of the first ever female football teams who came together during the WW1 and were...
by evemmitchell154 | Jul 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Writing about an abusive teen relationship was not an easy thing to do, in fact it was one of the hardest things I’ve written so far. Almost immediately I grew to love Anna. She was a character that developed quickly within me. She is an honest, hardworking, faithful...
