taking dictation from people who don't exist
Crossing the Line
shortlisted for the Angus Book Award
longlisted for
the 2010 Carnegie Medal,
Wirral Paperback of the Year 2010
and
the North Lanarkshire Catalyst Award
Bloomsbury 2009
Bad Faith
longlisted for the
North Lanarkshire Catalyst Award
Strident 2008
Adult edition coming in 2010
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Photo credit - Helen Giles
The 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival - right after my Schools Programme event. So can you tell I had a good time?
Ah, that Edinburgh weather - it's always like this.
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...and a more realistic one below, with dog and sunglasses.
Photo credit: Les Hester
I live in the north-east highlands of Scotland, with one husband, two children, one labrador (Cluny), two psychotic cats (the Ghost and the Darkness) - and not as many rabbits as there used to be. Writing for a living is a lot of fun - like taking dictation from the characters in my head, who spend their lives telling me what's going to happen next.
But I like it that I never know just how it's all going to end - not till the fat lady sings, the villain meets a suitably sticky end, and the boy gets the girl (or indeed the boy).
Gabriella Poole's
DARKE ACADEMY
In collaboration with the highly successful book packagers Hothouse,
I write the Darke Academy series under the name Garbriella Poole.
The first book, Secret Lives, was published by Hodder in August 2009.
Blood Ties will appear in February and Divided Souls in August 2010.
As well as full-length books, I write fiction for secondary Key Stage 3. Life Of The Party, Mind's Eye and Sea Fever have been published by Evans Brothers, and short stories The Changeling, Rockface, Misty and The Kindest Cut appear in their sci fi, crime, ghost and comedy collections.