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Waterstones has just published its list of the best YA of 2024:
What do you think? Have you read the books on their list? Do you agree with their picks?
We loved Songlight by Moira Buffini, and The Prisoner’s Throne by Holly Black. The Twelve by Liz Hyder is waiting on our TBR, and we’re really hoping someone puts Not For the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher under the tree for us this year!
What were your favourite YA books from 2024? And what should we read next?
We really can’t believe this. We launched our first novel, Battle Ground, at London Olympia FIVE WHOLE YEARS AGO on a frighteningly hot and humid day at YALC.
😲 FIVE YEARS!! 😲
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has bought, read, reviewed and told other people about the book and the series. It has been an amazing five years of writing, promoting, meeting new readers – and winning two international awards. Thank you all for your support and encouragement. 🧡
Taller Books has come a long way in five years. Seven books in the Battle Ground Series (plus a free novella), a standalone LGBTQ+ novel, Angels, a children’s picture book, an indie author editing service, and sponsorship of the Foreword Festival UK.
Here’s to the next five!
This the Taller Books team today. It’s been an amazing weekend of #AtHomeYALC events, and now we need to sleep off the exhaustion . . .
Massive thanks to Josie Jaffrey and AE Warren for joining Rachel for the self publishing workshop! You can still catch the 20-minute rundown of essentials for Indies on YouTube.
Hopefully we’ll be back in London for YALC 2022 – come and visit us on the Taller Books stand! It’s a brilliant event. Just make sure you bring book money, comfortable shoes, and plenty of strong bags for your book haul …
See you there!
The Indies are coming to #AtHomeYALC!
Thinking about self-publishing? Join Rachel Churcher, Josie Jaffrey, and AE Warren today for a 20-minute rundown of essential information for indies.
We’re running a giveaway to celebrate Battle Ground‘s book birthday!
For your chance to win a signed copy of Battle Ground and an awesome Battle Ground Series tote bag, simply sign up to our mailing list. We’ll send you a bonus FREE novella when you sign up, and we’ll enter you into the random draw.
The giveaway is open worldwide, and runs until 11pm BST this evening. We’ll draw a winner at random tomorrow.
If you missed Rachel’s broadcast at yesterday’s #AtHomeYALC Virtual Book Fair, you can catch it again on her Twitter feed. All the details of the giveaway are in the broadcast.
Good luck!
This giveaway is run by Rachel Churcher, and is not affiliated with YALC, #AtHomeYALC, Twitter, Instagram, or Taller Books.
We’re very excited to announce the #AtHomeYALC Virtual Book Fair!
Join thirteen amazing authors for readings, Q&A, giveaways, and more to celebrate the Young Adult Literature Convention weekend. The physical event might be cancelled, but authors are moving online to share fantastic YA books with readers.
Find us on Twitter Live, Saturday 25th July from 1pm BST. We hope you’ll join us!
Schedule | Authors | Books | Giveaways | FREE book!
I’m so sorry to hear that YALC won’t be going ahead this year. It’s undoubtedly the right decision, but I’ll miss meeting readers and talking books and politics all day! Put July 23-25 2021 in your diaries instead – I’ll see you there! ❤️
Wow!
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported ‘Battle Ground’! We published a week ago, and so far the book has been the Amazon number one free download in three different categories, reached number 41 in paid YA Dystopia, and collected some amazing reviews. We’ve been to YALC, and met readers and writers who are passionate about YA, and excited to read our post-Brexit dystopia. We’ve sent ‘Battle Ground’ on a blog tour. Amazon ratings are at 4.8 stars.
We’re exhausted, but ‘Battle Ground‘ is finally live on Amazon.
Read this year’s most relevant dystopia for 99p (or FREE on Kindle Unlimited).
Welcome to Day One of the Battle Ground blog tour! Today’s views and reviews come from these lovely bloggers:
Head over to their blogs, and say hi while you’re there!
We’re so excited! Battle Ground will be live to buy on Amazon tomorrow – and the Kindle edition will be FREE until Sunday 28th July! Check back here tomorrow for the Amazon link, and download your FREE copy of Book One.
We’ll also be posting links to our blog tour. Check out the reviews and find out what book bloggers think of Battle Ground!
