Can you believe Christmas is almost here? This year has seriously blown by. I feel like I was just in Wakanda for my birthday literally the other day.
So one of the exciting things I wanted to mention in my last blog is...my book is shortlisted for London's Big Read 2019! Emily Knight I am...Awakened has been doing so well and now it's up against 14 books and it's up to the public to vote for their fav book. Voting starts World Book Day 2019. We had the launch party for it, with the other authors, family, friends and press. I had to do some interviews and I got to go on London Live to talk about my book! I have no idea why I thought London Live was radio and not live TV. All Helen told me was not to be late. I totally forgot that I had my first BookBrunch committee meeting but thankfully they were fine with me missing this one. Of course this was the day when there was diversions and cancelled trains. I had to be there at 5 and the building was next to the station. At 4.55pm my train decides to stop in the tunnel. Real talk I was losing hope. Helen told me to still go so I literally ran to the building and made it a few minutes after 5 and thankfully I was still able to do the interview. Once they got us seated, I got so nervous and do you know what I do when I'm nervous? I swear. I was with Emilie and Laura who lovingly told me, you've got this and don't swear! It was over in 5 minutes and I still can't believe I got to talk on live TV about my book. Of course my dad sent the link to every family member across the world lol.
Laura always dresses so cool and I said to her, “You're making me feel shit.” So I went to the nearest H&M and spent a silly amount of money updating my wardrobe.
You can watch our interview here London Live London's Big Read 2019
One of the cool things about London's Big Read is all the authors have to do these free events to promote the theme of the competition which is female empowerment and I am doing a few under a series called Girls Can Do Anything from February to June. It's events aimed at empowering writers to create dynamic, strong and well rounded female protagonists or female voices in their writing—so grab a ticket for free and join me and my special guest speakers
Girls Can Do Anything ticket Use the code at checkout to get the ticket for free: girlscandoanything2019
And I'm also collaborating my Emily Knight books with some very talented people who know all the people I want to know in film. EEEK! It's one of those things that I can't talk more about but I will say it involves some Hollywood vibes with one of my favs and it's so sick! It's funny because I was working with other people to produce Emily for I think a year and they basically went ghost on me (I have no idea why) and now they watch all my IG stories, so I cannot WAIT to shout about this.
Helen and I were about to have our Christmas party and we was on a phone call. I was scrolling through Instagram and I showed her this picture of Drake. She literally was speechless for about 10 seconds. I could see she that she was trying to talk but she couldn't do it. I almost peed my pants laughing.
I got to see the legend that is Ms Lauryn Hill to celebrate 20 years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Now I was fully prepared for her not to turn up—I know about her rep but she came on and was amazing! She sang all my favs and even did Killing Me Softly. I know people have a lot to say about her not being professional but she was on point on my night.
There was this young couple in front of us who went thought at least 3 bottles of wine and they spilt their drink on the lady next to us, who understandably goes mad. I had some tissues so gave it to lady. So they're going back and forth and the guy is so drunk that he's swinging his cup around, so it's spilling on the floor. Then he purposely tilts his drink so more alcohol spills on the lady's lap. Now I'm like hell nah! And I start having a go at him. The girls next to us are talking to the girlfriend and the lady who got drink spilt on her goes to find security. I say to the guy, “I saw you purposely spill your drink on her. That's not cool.”
He has the cheek to deny it and then his girlfriend starts crying and staring at me! Saying how he didn't do it on purpose, why would he. I'm so lost because I saw him do it.
Drunk girl: Everyone is shouting at me, it's scary
Me: No-one is shouting at you
Drunk girl: Those girl are shouting and scaring me
Me (looking over and trying not to laugh): You mean the Black girls?
Drunk girl: Yeah they want to hurt me
Me: Don't make this into a race thing. We're defending the girl your man spilt his drink on who is white!
They ended up getting kicked out and the girl who got drink spilt on her then told us she was pregnant! It was definitely a show.
Anyone looking to get into publishing? We have a 6-8 hour admin position available at Hashtag Press. Send your cv and why you would be a good fit for us to info@hashtagpress.co.uk and we are launching Hashtag Press 2020 in Jan, offering a traditional deal to an author! We also just published our 10th book with our first author Stephanie Nimmo!!!! Can't believe we are on book 10—so wild.
I had a full on convo with Malorie Blackman last week. It took me 10 minutes to stop being a fan girl and go and say hi! Then Yolanda Adams commented on our dance video to 'I Believe.' Yessss! Watch the video here
Went to Christmas at London Zoo with Anneliese and Pauline. I thought the animals would all be out still but they weren't, it was mainly these cool lights. Pauline is a trip. She kept telling us about some animal that attacked her at the zoo in Zambia or something crazy but I dragged her along anyway. I hate marshmallows but they had a campsite type fire to roast them so I brought a hot chocolate flavoured one and OMG. Totally get it. It tasted like a hot chocolate drink with whipped cream. Soooo good!
My last blog of the year will be NY Eve! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas x
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