Hello lovers! (You are not actually my lovers but you get my drift, also I am heavily addicted to Go Fug Yourself especially when they do a Jennifer Lopez post. But I haven't even got the the main blogging action yet and already I'm wittering.)

So, I have been a maelstrom of writerly activity and with writerly activity comes writerly news. Good news.

I'm super happy, thrilled even, to announce that my third grown-up novel, Nine Uses For An Ex-Boyfriend will be published on 2nd February 2012. Hurrah! There is no official synopsis yet but basically, like so many of my other novels, it's largely a case of boy meets girl meets rock meets hard place.

As soon as I have a cover and proper synopsis, I will post all the details here.

I'm also equally thrilled to tell you that my first YA novel for Atom Books, and my first YA in over two years, Adorkable will be released on 24th May 2012. I've just finished the first draft and I think you are going to love and loathe Jeane, my heroine, in equal measure.

Both books are available for pre-order now, but don't you worry, I'll remind you nearer the time. I'm nice like that.

So, no news of any events for the rest of this year as I will be editing 9 Uses, finishing Adorkable and starting my fourth grown-up novel sometime in September after I've had a little holiday. But next year, I hope to be out and about, doing talks, doing signings, taking names etc.

Now I need to go and shift a really heavy filing cabinet from lounge to study (the glamour of my life, it almost kills me) but before I go, I'd like to big up Caitlin Moran's How To Be a Woman I think every woman, hell, every man, should read this book. But more importantly, if you're a teenage girl, then I beg, implore and beseech you to get hold of Caitlin's funny (like, snorting liquid out of your nostril funny,) intelligent, entirely making sense memoir/rant on what it means to be a feminist and why if you have a vagina, you SHOULD be a feminist. And as she explains far better than I ever could, feminism has become a dirty word and so many of us don't want to describe ourselves as feminists, when actually you probably already are one, you just don't know it yet. But I do know that if I'd read this book when I was 17, it would have totally changed my life.

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Sarra x