Want to know whether your Queen of Teen prefers sweets to chocolates, shoes to handbags, and what makes her laugh or scream? How about her tips on writing books, or what she was like when she was your age? Click on each question to discover how the writers ‘fessed up in our exclusive Queen of Teen Q&As.
1. What makes you smile?
My best friend's jokes
2. What makes you scream?
Poor dead birds killed by the foxes in my garden
3. Describe your favourite outfit.
Something soft and black – with lace in summer, velvet in winter with very funky shoes
4. What's your favourite girlie movie?
Thelma and Louise
5. What's your favourite saying?
Don't worry, be happy!
6. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
Half an hour – to bath, wash hair, dress, put on make up and have coffee and toast
7. What's your star sign?
Sagittarius.
8. Bags or shoes?
Both!
9. Sweets or chocolate?
Neither
10. What were you like as a teenager?
Shy, imaginative, a bookworm, loved dancing, already writing seriously
11. Was the young girls' popular magazine 'Jackie' named after you?
So they said – they published my first stories and articles when I was 17
12. If you could choose to be like a character from one of your books, who would you choose?
Maybe Charlie from The Lottie Project – she's very popular and confident and makes great cakes
13. How did it feel to have your books televised? Were your characters portrayed as you had imagined?
I think all the TV adaptations have been great. My favourite was The Illustrated Mum
14. What is the greatest compliment that you've ever had about your writing?
Girls have said they found reading boring until reading one of my books turned them into bookworms – I'm always so thrilled to hear this!
15. Who inspired you to write?
No one – I just loved reading and making up my own stories from when I was very young
16. Why did you decide to focus on children's books rather than adults?
I've written five novels for adults but I much prefer writing for children – it's much more immediate and fun.
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