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We’re thrilled to be welcoming novelist Susie Day to the Podcast this Friday. Susie is the author of Big Woo/Serafina67 (two names, one book) which has been described as ‘Laugh-out-loud funny, stunningly authentic and totally original.’ Big Woo is the book’s title in the UK and is published by Marion Lloyd Books: Serafina67 is the US edition, out in hardback August 08. Susie describes herself as an internet geek so it isn’t surprising to find that Big Woo is written in the form of a blog.

On her website she says… “There’s always a lot in the press about the dangers of the internet, the nasty stories about kids being groomed in chatrooms and so on, and I wanted to explore blogging and social networking in a more balanced way: to show the positives too, the reasons why so many of us live half our lives online. It throws up loads of questions about trying to find your real identity, which is such a huge thing when you’re a teenager. Plus I liked the idea of the writing challenge: whether you could actually tell a story, or create distinct characters, without all the descriptions and so on you usually get in a novel.”

Susie won the BBC Talent Children’s Fiction Prize with her novel Whump!…in which Bill falls 632 miles down a manhole, which was published in 2004. She lists her likes as “cheese, Time Lords and the Go! Team”, so we’ll probably be able to wedge in some sort of reference to Yarg!

Join us live in the UStream chatroom this Friday to ask questions and listen live! The chatroom opens at the following times, the show itself starts recording 30 minutes later.

• 7:30pm London time
• 2:30pm New York / EST
• 11:30am Los Angeles PST

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