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Molly Looby

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in Chelmsford, The United Kingdom

September 10, 1994

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YA Author. Adverb Slayer. ZA Ready.

Molly Looby is the author of many young adult fiction novels. Her zombie novel ZA was published in 2016 by Molten Publishing. She lives in sunny Essex, England and spends almost all of her time hunkered down at her desk with her imaginary friends. When not talking to the people in her head, she can be found singing too loud when she’s alone or getting frustrated at the PlayStation.

Achievements include an 800,000+ total NaNoWriMo word count, a Shakespeare Award for services to Literature created by her A’ level form tutor, and a Zombie Run medal.

She was shortlisted for the Sony Young Movellist of the Year Award 2013 and the Wicked Young Writers' Award 2015 and 2016.
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	ZA 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playing with Reality: (The Immorality of Immortality #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chancing the Truth (The Immorality of Immortality #3) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gambling a Fairytale: (The Immorality of Immortality #2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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My Top 15 Female Authors for International Women's Day 2018

There are so many incredible authors out there, a great deal of them female, and I think YA is a genre that embraces that. There are over 200 books on my bookshelves, and over 100 of them are written by women.

So to celebrate phenomenal female authors, here are my top 15! (Listed alphabetically)

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I devoured this book like a thing possessed, reading all 402 pages in 2 days. I COULD NOT STOP. I absolutely adore these characters, and this ending did the world perfect justice. Brigid Kemmerer did such an outstanding job! I’m in awe 🤩 Now I’m off ...more
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“People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy.”
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“You know what would be awesome? . . . If I could have a machete.”
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“A love of writing is far greater than any word count.”
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“There's no right and wrong anymore. Just living and dying.”
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“It's all about survival.”
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“That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.”
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“It was all about survival. That's all it had ever been about.”
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message 5: by Rohini

Oct 16, 2014 04:42AM

Molly wrote: "Rohini wrote: "Molly wrote: "Rohini wrote: "I was wondering- are your books available in paperback too?"
Playing with Reality and Gambling a Fairytale are. They're pretty easy to find on Amazon if..."

Yeah. I tried accessing the UK site but it automatically converts it into the high Indian price. The thing here is even popular books take a year or so to come out in the market and one can many YA books only after it has been made into a movie or something like that.

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message 4: by Molly

Oct 15, 2014 06:14AM

Rohini wrote: "Molly wrote: "Rohini wrote: "I was wondering- are your books available in paperback too?"
Playing with Reality and Gambling a Fairytale are. They're pretty easy to find on Amazon if you type in Mo..."

Oh no! I just looked at the price and it's outrageous! It converts to way over the normal price. Sorry . . . And it's a shame because in the UK it seems to be on sale . . . is there no way to buy it from the UK site or does it not work?

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message 3: by Rohini

Oct 13, 2014 01:27AM

Molly wrote: "Rohini wrote: "I was wondering- are your books available in paperback too?"
Playing with Reality and Gambling a Fairytale are. They're pretty easy to find on Amazon if you type in Molly Looby.
Bu..."

Oh!I don't have Kindle and mostly I prefer buying books. And in India your books are really expensive.

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message 2: by Molly

Oct 12, 2014 12:02PM

Rohini wrote: "I was wondering- are your books available in paperback too?"
Playing with Reality and Gambling a Fairytale are. They're pretty easy to find on Amazon if you type in Molly Looby.
But ZA is not. I'm thinking about bringing out a paperback version at some point next year though. I think you can get ZA on other devices other than Kindle but I'm not sure how to do that.

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I was wondering- are your books available in paperback too?

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