STOLEN shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards
This is really exciting to announce! Stolen has battled fierce competition to make it onto the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult fiction in Australia. The Prime Minister's Literary Awards celebrate the contribution of Australian literature to the nation's cultural and intellectual life. Lucy is especially thrilled about this award as she is super excited to see the book getting recognised in her home country, Australia! There are seven shortlisted books for this category, and all of them are fantastic. You can check out the competition on the official website, here - http://www.arts.gov.au/books/pmliteraryawards10
Lucy wins the BRANFORD BOASE award
Lucy is thrilled to announce that her debut novel, Stolen, has WON the 2010 Branford Boase award!! This is a really special award that celebrates the best debut novel for young people published in the UK over the last year! It's a real honour to be chosen for this, and Lucy is very grateful. For more info and photos, see the Branford Boase award website.
TY gets shortlisted for best Villian!!
Click here to Vote!!!!We are thrilled to anounce that Ty MacFarlane, anti-hero of STOLEN, has been nominated for BEST VILLAIN for the Indigo Teen Read Awards! This is a fantastic new award that has been organised by Indigo Booksellers in Canada and , the best bit of all ... this award is decided by YOU! That's right, you can vote for Ty to win the best villain award right here on the Indigo website - http://www.teenreadawards.ca
There are also heaps of other fun categories you can vote for in these awards, including best hottie and best liplock!!
Sooooo, get voting and get your voice heard!! There are prizes and giveaways too for casting your vote - every day you vote, you can win a new prize! Ty would be most enormously grateful to receive your votes! He's never won anything in his life before, so he'd be thrilled to win this! Please vote for him here!
HULL Children's Book Award
Lucy is delighted to have won, and accepted, the Hull Children’s Book Award (Key Stage 3) for her debut novel, Stolen. Lucy travelled up to Hull for a special award ceremony which was attended by teens from the local schools, as well as the rather fabulous local librarians. The Hull Children’s Book Award is a special award because the overall winner is decided purely by the teen vote! Lucy was presented with a beautiful picture by a local artist to mark the occasion.
Lucy's recent trip to the USA
Lucy has been busy over the past few weeks, first traveling to Bedfordshire to attend the Bedfordshire book festival, then Berkhamstead for a lovely school visit, and then to Hull for the Children’s Book Award. During this, Lucy has also found time to fit in a visit to the USA. She was out there with her publisher, Barry Cunningham, to promote her debut novel, Stolen (which has just been released in the US). While visiting, Lucy did interviews for Indigo, RT Magazine and the Scholastic On Our Minds site. She also spoke at the American Librarian’s Association conference, and met many amazing librarians. It was a wonderful trip, full of great excitement and admiration for the novel. Particularly exciting was being able to meet the team at Scholastic U.S who publish Stolen there. What a wonderful and enthusiastic team!
From Chicken House to White House. Lucy and her publisher, Barry Cunningham, on their recent tour of Washington D.C. Lucy signing at the American Librarian's Conference, where she read from Stolen.Visit to the USA
Lucy is over the moon about visiting the USA soon. She will first be travelling to New York to meet her fantastically wonderful Scholastic team, and then heading off to Washington D.C to be a part of this year's American Librarian's Association Conference. How exciting is that?! Apart from a visit to Disneyland and Hawaii when she was very small, Lucy has never been to the states! She hopes she gets to meet some American fans while she's out there too...
STOLEN on the short list for the Branford Boase Award
STOLEN joins six other fantastic novels on this impressive short list for this fantastic award. Not least, STOLEN is sharing the short list with "stable mate" Rachel Ward, another Chicken House chicken and author of the fabulous Numbers. STOLEN's editor Imogen Cooper is also the editor of Numbers, so a double celebration for this very talented lady too! What a thrill to be on this very exciting list! Check out this talented list for this year's Branford Boase Award here
Book Trailer for STOLEN....
Check out this fantastic book trailer made for the American edition of STOLEN.here
Lucy talks about her books on You Tube
To see Lucy speaking about her books in Australia recently, you can watch it here
STOLEN wins book award
STOLEN has just won the Hull Children's Book Award!
Lucy heads Down Under
Lucy will be visiting Australia from the 5th - 25th April to coincide with the Australian launch of her second novel, Flyaway, and to celebrate the recent CBCA shortlisting for Stolen. She will be visiting and talking to various schools and bookshops while she is out there, and also holding an official launch party for Flyaway. For more details, see the diary page on this website. If anyone would like to get in touch with Lucy while she is in Australia, or if you are a shop that wants her to sign stock, then please contact her via her email address - lucy@lucychristopher.com - or via her Australian publishers (publicist Sarah Hatton at Scholastic Australia on 02 9413 8378). Please note that Lucy will only be visiting Melbourne and Sydney as part of this trip.
Australian Launch Party for Flyaway (all welcome!)
Everyone is warmly invited to attend the Australian launch party for Lucy's second novel, Flyaway. More details can be found on the events section of Lucy's Facebook Fanpage (where you can RSVP, too). But just quickly, the Flyaway Launch Party will be held on 15th April from 5.30pm in Enchanted by Books in Williamstown (177 Ferguson Street, near Williamstown North train station). Lucy will be talking about the book and her inspirations for it, as well as reading from the novel. She will be on hand to answer questions and sign copies of both Flyaway and Stolen. Please come on down for a fun, relaxed evening of talking, mingling and nibbling. It would be great to see as many of you there as possible to help launch this book into the Southern Hemisphere! Free smiles for all who attend! If possible, please RSVP you attendance either on Lucy's Facebook Fanpage or by calling the shop on 03 9397 1154 (this is just to help us confirm numbers for food).
STOLEN is shortlisted for 2010 Book of the Year by the Children's Book Council of Australia
This is really exciting news, and we are absolutely thrilled that STOLEN has been shortlisted for the 2010 award for Older Readers by the Children's Book Council of Australia. What an absolute delight to be chosen! Lucy is especially thrilled to be shortlisted for this award as she grew up in Australia, spending most of her life in Melbourne (where she still has a base). This award is one of the most prestigious in Australian Children's Literature, and the result is followed eagerly by librarians, booksellers, parents and teens. It means such a great deal to be among such a talented short list for this year, including such brilliant writers as David Metzenthen and Judith Clarke. There are six books in total that have been shortlisted, and the results will be announced August 20th this year. Stay tuned for more news on this! If you want to visit the CBCA website to get more information, the address is here - http://cbca.org.au/ShortList.htm
Flyaway spread its wings, took flight
Thank-you to all that attended the launch of Flyaway and made the night a wonderful success last week. During the launch, Lucy discussed Flyaway with Barry Cunningham from The Chicken House (picutred). Have a look at Lucy's diary to see where she'll be discussing Flyaway next!
Official launch party of Flyaway
Lucy will be officially launching her second book FLYAWAY on Thursday 28th Jan in Bath Waterstones at 6.30pm (Milsom Street). Everyone and anyone is warmly invited to attend to help set this book out on its first flight into the world. Barry Cunningham from The Chicken House will also be there to ask Lucy lots of questions about the process of writing and publishing this novel. There will be chance for questions from the floor too, and of course time for book signing! Come along for a feathery night to remember!
Branford Boase Longlist
STOLEN has been longlisted for the Branford Boase award, which is an award made to the most promising book for 7-year-olds and upwards by a debut novelist. It's a really prestigious award so Lucy is rather chuffed with this! Apparently it's rather a long longlist, however, but hey, it's still exciting to be on it!
Flyaway Blog Reviews
Flyaway has had some lovely blog reviews of late. Jenny from Wondrous Reads gave it an amazing review (seriously, they don't get better than this!). You can read it here
Plus Sophie from So Many Books, So Little Time has also given FLYAWAY an equally brilliant review. Read that here
Lucy NOW tweeting
Follow Lucy on twitter and keep in touch about all things to do with writing and tours (and how to use this twitter) here.
Shortlist Success
Both of Lucy's books have been shortlisted for some major awards recently.
Lucy's new novel, Flyaway, has been shortlisted for the Waterstone's prize. The competition is fierce with many other great books, however, Lucy is over the moon to have been selected.
STOLEN has been shortlisted for two awards: The Leeds Book award and the Coventry Inspiration Book awards. If you like STOLEN, you can vote for it for the Coventry Inspiration award on the voting website through this link.
Flyaway landing soon....
Lucy's second novel, Flyaway is publishing early in the new year. To read more about it, visit the books page. It is also available for preorder at all good book shops.
STOLEN Longlisted!
Lucy's debut novel has been longlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal. If you want to comment, write a message on Lucy's facebook page here
Loads of talks up North
Lucy is speaking in loads of places up north over the next month. Be sure to check out the Lucy's diary to see where she'll be next!
New interview on Good Reading
Lucy was interviewed recently on the Good Reading website. To see the interview, Click here
STOLEN sold out of first 10,000 print run!
STOLEN is in reprints after the first 10,000 copies have sold out. Look out for the new edition which has a slightly shinier (and fab) cover!
In addition to that, the publishing rights to STOLEN have been sold to USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Poland, Sweden and Thailand.
Such a milestone couldn't have been achieved without people buying the book, so a big THANKS to STOLEN's wonderful readers!
Lucy at YLG Conference
Lucy will be on a panel on "Challenging subjects for a difficult audience". For more info, please visit Lucy's diary page.
Become a fan of Lucy on Facebook
If you're on Facebook you can become a fan of Lucy through this link. Where you'll here all the latest updates direct from the horse's mouth!
Bath Children's Literature Festival
Lucy will be speaking with Barry Cunningham, Managing Director of The Chicken House, and other fab teen author Rachel Ward at the Bath Children's Literature Festival. Come along on the 24th September to learn how to write and get published for teen fiction.
Talk and signing in Borders Cardiff
Come on down to Border's in Cardiff to hear Lucy speak about Stolen and get yourself a signed copy of the book! She will be there between 1-2pm this Saturday (4th July).
Lucy's School Visits
Lucy has really enjoyed her recent visits to St Joseph's RC High School in Newport and to Whalley Range High School and Manchester High School for Girls in Manchester. What lovely schools with such lovely librarians and teachers! Thanks for buying so many books too!
Lucy speaks to teen bookgroup at Borders
Stockport
On Thursday 25th June, Lucy spent a delightful evening with the lovely folk at Borders Stockport and with their brilliant teen book group. Thanks to Jenny and Charley and Mike (the wonderful Borders staff) for having her and for making the night such a success. If anyone lives near this wonderful store, go in and visit them - their knowledge of teen books is amazing and you'll be sure to walk out with a book you can't wait to read
For more photos of the event browse on to Wondrous Reads. A great Blog that you should all check out!
Lucy SOLD OUT of books at the Guardian Hay
Festival 2009
Her event with Melvin Burgess and Anna Perera went really well too, attended by a full house of teens and their families.
There were some thoughtful questions asked, plus the winners of the Spinebreakers competition were presented with their prizes. It was especially fantastic that the first prize-winning story was inspired by the front cover of STOLEN! And what a well-written and chilling story it was too! A successful day all round.
STOLEN Review
Check out this great review of STOLEN from Michael Thorn on Achuka. It's only the second five star review Michael has given for 2009 - and both of the five stars he has given have been for debut novels!
Borders Bookstore Visits
Lucy will be talking about her novel STOLEN in two Borders stores. The two wonderful stores in question are:
Borders Stockport, 6.30pm Thursday 25th June
Borders Cardiff, 1pm, Saturday 4th July
Please come along to hear about the novel, ask Lucy questions and get your book signed! These are also fabulous stores, well deserving of a little mooch around!
School Visits
Lucy is really excited about the schools she will be going to visit over the next few weeks, and looking forward to the creative writing workshops she will be doing there. If your school would like to book Lucy for a creative writing day or author talk then please get in touch.
The Official Launch of STOLEN
26th May, 6.30pm Bath Waterstones.
Everyone is warmly invited to attend the official launch of Lucy's debut novel STOLEN. Lucy will talk about the novel, read from it and sign copies. Free wine and nibbles.
Melvin Burgess speaking to Lucy
and Anna Perera at the Hay festival
28th May, 4pm
For more info click here or see all of Lucy's events here.
The Lucy Christopher Website launched
Welcome to the website of the Author, Lucy Christopher.