YALC 2023

As a YALC superfan, I was very excited to be invited to YALC 2023 last weekend to help out on the Sweet Cherry stall and sign copies of The Songs You’ve Never Heard.

My husband Mat and best friend Paul came with me for the day and we had great fun chatting to people on the stall, meeting new readers and seeing all the amazing costumes from the Comic Con downstairs! I even got to meet Lumiere!!

It was so lovely to chat about mine and Ellie’s ‘booksical’ with people - I’m so excited for new readers to discover Meg, Alana, Matty and Caspar for the first time. I also got to catch up with my author friends Danielle, Nadia and Louise who I first met at The YA Book Prize, as well as Katie who was our panel interviewer in Edinburgh. It meant so much for so many people to come to the stall to say hello and to catch up with everyone!

It was also so awesome to see my author heroes wandering around the event such as Juno Dawson and Holly Bourne - I wish I’d had more time to go and see their panels, but I did get to go book shopping in the afternoon and pick up a great haul. Paul and I even got matching Pikachu Tattoos that have lasted 4 days already and show no sign of fading despite being “temporary” LOL…

I always have such a fab time at this event and I really hope I’ll get to go again next year, maybe with a brand new book to promote next time?! Watch this space… :)

(PS. Click HERE to see my reel from the day! :D)