Publishers Weekly review

I'm so happy with the lovely review that Publishers Weekly gave me and from now on I will always refer to myself as a 'zippy' writer, since it's a term that I now officially adore!!!!!!!

Sophomore Emma Jones has been training at Burtonwood Academy for years, expecting to follow in her late mother's footsteps and become a dragon slayer. Being made a fairy slayer is not in her plans--fairies are harmless and lame ("...the worst she'd ever seen them do was change the food labels at the supermarket"), nearly impossible to kill, and they love taunting her. Worse, she's forced to train with Curtis, the cute guy who took her dragon job. As Emma tries to change the principal's mind about her specialty, an extremely dangerous seven-foot-tall fairy that only she can see shows up. Now Emma needs to figure out where the creature came from, what it wants, how she's going to kill it, and most of all, how it knew her mother. In a fun mashup of the modern and the magical, Ashby (Zombie Queen of Newbury High) creates nicely developed characters and supports them with strong plotting and zippy writing. Laced with humor, danger, and romance, this book will have readers smiling all the way to the last page. Ages 12–up. (June)

In other news, my two kids now have the plague of some description and seem hellbent on giving it me. Funny that they weren't so generous when it came to Easter chocolate! Apart from that, I've finally started work on a new project and will try and get as much written as possible before my next lot of revisions of arrive, which means I officially name May the month of writing!!!!!!

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