The Fearsome Faeries are coming to America

The Fearsome faeries are coming to America and I’m so excited for my faerie books to fly across the Atlantic and into the hands of new readers!
INTO THE FAERIE HILL is publishing in exactly four weeks on June 24th and THE CHANGELING CHILD will follow in October. Both books are distributed by Penguin Random House. Read more about the books by clicking the titles.


I first travelled to America in 1987 to live with my aunt and spend a semester at Montclair State College in New Jersey. Here’s 1980s me (with 80s hair). As one of very few people I cycled to school—a hilly 8 km stretch.

I remember trying to get into a creative writing class but they were all booked up. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I had succeeded. Would I have stayed and begun my writing journey as a teenager, instead of taking a path that included studying economics and 16 years in a corporate job, before I took my writing hobby seriously?
Who knows… Life is strange and full of sliding doors. Some (especially bookish doors) might even lead into Faerie…
You can find links to pre-order the books here: