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Heather Child

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Heather Child's latest novel is THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF LOVE - available for pre-order now!

Her previous books, EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU and THE UNDOING OF ARLO KNOTT, are published by Orbit (Little, Brown).

Heather lives in Bristol, UK. Alongside writing she has had an eclectic career in charity marketing and communications.

You can find out more about her novels, including discussion questions for book clubs, at www.heather-child.co.uk or follow her on X (@Heatherika1) or Bluesky (@heatherika.bsky.social)
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Once you know what you want to get out of writing, get to know your material inside out - the characters, the settings, the backstory. That way your writing will be fluid; it will come from inside the story, and be convincing to readers.(less)
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Everything About You

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What a cover!

In case you haven’t already seen it, here is the beautiful cover for The People’s Republic of Love…

I love this cover look – at first glance it transports you to the perfect tropical island, on which the book’s reality TV show is filmed, but there’s also a sense of something a bit wrong, a hint of totalitarianism beneath the palms

The cover was designed by Andy Whittaker, and the Fantasy Hive kindly

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