Department 19 teaser and author video now on YouTube! Enjoy.

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As mentioned in my previous post, author Will Hill has done a phenomenal amount of work in plotting out the history of Department 19 to make sure every detail is correct.  Most of this will probably never find its way on to the pages but it is a fascinating insight into the process he went through [...]

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Last night we invited as many of our bookselling friends as we could to Churchill’s Cabinet War Rooms and presented Department 19, our big debut YA launch title (and frankly work of brilliance) for next April.  We love a theme here at HarperCollins, so we sent out ‘classified’ invitations (see previous post demonstrating how I wounded my hand via [...]

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I was very excited on my holiday in Croatia to find our Carrie Diaries TPB in not one, but two bookshops!  Obviously I had to get shriek and get a picture. This one was in Dubrovnik, I like to think it added a necessary touch of glamour to their window. This is one I took [...]

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If you haven’t seen me yet, it’s possibly because I’m covered with a pile of mailing envelopes like a big lego tower on my desk. For someone who just finished A-levels, getting a work experience place at one of the leading publishing companies is just so lucky. And things I get to do are awesome [...]

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