Stuff about me and this website

My name is Alice Kuipers.  I’m lucky enough to be a novelist with two books out with HarperCollins.

This is me

My first book, Life on the Refrigerator Door, was published in 28 countries and won several awards. My second – called Lost For Words in the US, and The Worst Thing She Ever Did in Canada, Australia, Germany, Croatia, Turkey, Portugal and France, comes out May 11th 2010. I’ve had non-fiction published in Easy Living Magazine, the Sunday Telegraph and the Bristol Review of Books; several short stories turned into radio productions; and one short story which was used to inspire a short film. I have loads of tips and suggestions for teenagers who want to write their own fiction and non-fiction and that’s what this site is going to be all about. How to write well, write often, and all sorts of other writerly things…