Alice Feeney
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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But then they all held up my books and they really were there to see me. And this year we've got events where there are over 400 people coming along. And I just I think it's amazing.
Nope.
I always remember with Sometimes I Lie, my first book that was published. Yeah. The first ever newspaper review of the book got the names in a muddle. So the book was about a character called Amber Reynolds who is in a coma and But the newspaper review, the first one I'd ever seen of my writing, didn't say Amber Reynolds. It said this book is by Amber Reynolds.
And it's about Alice Feeney, who is in a coma. And I think since then, I've wondered, am I? Am I lying in a hospital room somewhere with machines keeping me? Because how else did I get an agent and publishers and all these wonderful things?
Is it?
That's good. I'm still jealous of the butt eye, but you know.
My first ever review.
All publicity is good publicity, according to my publicist. So here we are.
This is fine.
well now you know how we've been talking about uber yes podcasts tiktok is a bit of a mystery to me as well oh it is i understand what it is it's videos on the phone yeah i did look at it once it made my brain melt a little bit i thought yeah it'll definitely change uh the way that you think about like shorten your attention span yes but i only bring it up because i think that book talk
I love that on Instagram is the one I do do a little bit. I like Instagram, pretty pictures. I'm there for it all day long. But sometimes people will tag things on Instagram and they'll say that it's on BookTok as well. And I know that Rock Paper Scissors was a book of BookTok, which sounds very fun.
That's, that's incredible, isn't it? Again, amazing things happen.
Yeah, absolutely. Sometimes I think there can be some snobbery in this business. And I think if people are reading, to me, that's fantastic. And however they can hear about books and however we can spread the word about books is also fantastic. And I love that I have a lot of young readers who are much cleverer at all this technical stuff than I am, but sometimes very young.
I had an event in Macedonia last year and there was a 12-year-old in the audience with all of my books and came up to sign them at the end of the event. And I did wonder if 12 was a little bit, a smidgen, a smidgen too young perhaps to be reading my books.
um but then it reminded me that I used to read Stephen King at that age and yeah I think I sort of turned out okay I think you turned out okay but yes it was interesting meeting that 12 year old actually changed the ending of this book um really yes in what way um I really loved her I loved her energy I loved how enthusiastic she was about all reading it makes me really happy when children are reading I get
so scared that everyone is living inside screens these days including me I spend too long looking at screens for everything um so to see this kid who is so into her books and so eloquent about stories and what they meant to her and how they had helped her and changed her life just made me so happy and I was worried she might misinterpret how I wanted the ending to be
read how I wanted people to feel about the women um on the island did you see me pause there to try and avoid spoilers no spoilers here it's so tricksy because I know what happens um but yeah so I did I tweaked the ending a little bit because of meeting a reader who I'm mentioning because she was talking about TikTok so clearly it's a it's a it's a big thing for young readers especially out there and I think anything that spreads the word about good books is a great thing
I just I find it so fascinating meeting people. We had our first event last night and one of the readers who came along made me a hat to match the book. She knitted an actual beautiful, ugly hat in the same colors and things like that just blow my mind. Or sometimes people turn up with lucky Kit Kats.
Movie show this summer. The filming's all done and it'll be on our screens this summer, which is just incredibly exciting. I still can't quite believe that's true either.
I feel like I can't get enough. And I think there are lots of other people out there who feel the same. You know, we've got this desire for some reason. We're all obsessed with these dark, twisty stories and we love playing the game of who did it and trying to solve the mystery. So, no, it's been a fantastic experience. A few of my books have been optioned.
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