Zelah Green is changing! From July 2010 she's going to look like this:
Yes - this is the BRAND NEW COVER for the second Zelah Green book (previously entitled 'Zelah Green: Dating Queen'). Hope you love it as much as I do!
......AND A BRAND NEW SERIES OF BOOKS FEATURING 'LILAH MAY', COMING SOON......
Welcome to the homepage of Vanessa Curtis, author of children's books 'Zelah Green: Queen of Clean' and 'Zelah Green: Dating Queen' (due out early 2010), journalist and biographer of Virginia Woolf. If you'd like to leave a comment on Zelah Green please visit my 'Guestbook'and leave a comment there. I'd love to hear from you! And shock horror - I've finally updated my blog....
NEW - SNEAK PREVIEW OF 'ZELAH GREEN: DATING QUEEN', the sequel to Zelah Green: Queen of Clean which is due out January 2010. Please select that option from the menu on the left. And you can see the sparkly red cover for the new book below!
I'm a children's author whose first book 'Zelah Green: Queen of Clean' is published by Egmont UK and was shortlisted for the 2009 Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the 2010 Manchester Children's Book Awards and the 2010 Bolton Children's Book Awards. The sequel 'Zelah Green' is due for release July 2010. I'm also a freelance book reviewer and the author of three books on Virginia Woolf.
I'm represented by Peter Buckman at the Ampersand Agency and live near Chichester harbour.
Influences etc:
Books and poetry: Philip Larkin, Dorothy Parker, Sarah Waters, Cormac McCarthy, the Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Isabel Allende, Mr Gum (Andy Stanton), Adam Mars-Jones, Patrick Gale, Helen Dunmore.
Fave Eras: the 1940's, the 1900's, the 1890's.
Art: Kahlo, Perry, Dali, Nash, Hepworth, Wallis.
Music: Mozart, Marillion (mark 2), Brahms, Chopin, Green Day, Eddie Thompson, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Dave McKenna.
Telly: Coronation Street (best scriptwriting ever).
Films: Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Age of Innocence, The Pianist.
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