Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner…

Very shortly, I will be leaving for this place:

But if I were not, I’d be heading to this place:

Because on Monday 28th June at 5.45pm, the fabulous bookshop Tales On Moon Lane are hosting a teen fiction event at Dulwich Library. Check out the line-up:

Luisa Plaja, author of Split By A Kiss, Extreme Kissing, and Swapped By A Kiss (and some other top secret books – Luisa is prolific, in fact she’s my personal Queen of Teen).

Keris Stainton, author of the recently published Della Says: OMG (which has had all manner of superb reviews) and such a fabulous blogger that I’d call her my inspiration for starting Doing The Compossible a few years ago.

Simmone Howell, author of Everything Beautiful and Notes From The Teenage Underground, who is so effortlessly cool and talented and is a fellow resident of Melbourne (though didn’t require the rigorous medical or madness-inducing forms that I had to suffer to get here…).

Sarra Manning, author of Nobody’s Girl and Let’s Get Lost and more besides, and if Wikipedia is telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth she also went to the same uni and did the same degree as me…hmm, maybe I should have gone to a few more lectures after all…

I’ve been lucky enough to meet 75% of this line-up already (one of the perks of the job…we need perks, they don’t pay us much y’know) and give you my personal solid-gold 5-year warranty guarantee that this event is going to be enormous fun and an inspiration. Or your money back. (The event is free but places are limited so call Tales on Moon Lane on 0207 274 5759, email them on info@talesonmoonlane.co.uk or pop into the shop or Dulwich Library.)