Wren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels as ‘Lauren James’, including Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. They are a RLF Royal Fellow at Aston University and the story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper (Seasons 2 and 3).
Wren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, editor of the anthology Future Hopes: Hopeful stories in a time of climate change, and a member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. They work as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies, major brands and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. They run a Queer Writers group in Coventry.
Their books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in seven languages. The Quiet at the End of the World was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and STEAM Children’s Book Award.
Their other novels include The Next Together series, the dyslexia-friendly novella series The Watchmaker and the Duke and serialised online novel An Unauthorised Fan Treatise.
Wren’s writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly.
Wren was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where they studied Chemistry and Physics. They have taught creative writing for Coventry University, WriteMentor, and Writing West Midlands. Their next release is Last Seen Online.
2nd Reading: fun to read the quirky side of Charlie. And Nick likes it too. Don't we all have our quirks? Fun quick read.
As Nick and Charlie spend more time together, Nick now sees that Charlie likes a smart, good-looking, famous academic professor that is coming to town to give a speech. Nick realizes that this speaker is not the rugby-type and feels some anxiety. Great feeling of reality in this short one.
The Ethics of Infatuation Dynamics is a cute comic set in the Hearstopper world that follows Nick and Charlie as Nick begins to feel jealous over Charlie’s celebrity crush. I loved every second of this comic. It was adorable. I also loved how this comic addressed celebrity crushes in relationships, which is something I wish more books would cover as I’ve always wondered how that impacts relationships.
Mini comic, but i absolutely loved it! It was really good and gave a lovely insight to Nick and Charlie’s relationship. This is where I read it: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge...
I know it’s not written by Alice, and that much is obvious because it’s like bad fan fiction. The characters just don’t seem like themselves and the plot was so ludicrous. If the writer wanted to explore insecurity and jealousy, having Nick be jealous of his boyfriend admiring an older celebrity really wasn’t the right way to go as it was so unrealistic.
Me pareció súper cómico cómo Nick se ponía celoso e imprimía posters de estrellas (incluso uno de Ariana Grande), para luego terminar él también enamorado del otro. Lo mejor de todo es que es igual a Charlie.
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You guys, this is absolute gold! Like, the bi panic alone is just *chef's kiss* Only thing that makes it a 4 star read instead of 5 is that I felt like it was waaaayy too short