Susie Day

Susie Day was born in Penarth, South Wales in possession of three older sisters, a lisp, and a rather unfortunate choice of first name.

She has a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, an MSt in English Literature from Oxford University, and is still grasping at a doctorate in English Literature from Oxford University. Despite this lack of imagination, Susie always wanted to be a writer. At the age of 8 she co-wrote a radio play entitled 'Paperback Writer', based on the Beatles' song, and inexplicably about a racehorse that really wanted to win the Grand National. Hopefully her Mum has lost the one remaining copy. Susie's first book, WHUMP!... IN WHICH BILL FALLS 632 MILES DOWN A MANHOLE, won the BBC Children's Fiction Prize and was serialized on Radio 4 in 2004.

Susie likes Arthur Ransome, Scotland, Time Lords, and cheese. She lives in Oxford, and hopes one day to find the 'off' switch on the television.

Susie's hilarious and touching novel for teens, BIG WOO!, is published by Scholastic (Marion Lloyd Books) in the UK in April and by Scholastic Inc in the US in the summer. In the US it goes by the title of SERAFINA67 *URGENTLY REQUIRES LIFE*

serafina67 is the online identity of Sarah, a bright but troubled 15-year-old with recently divorced parents. Despairing at having been sent to Crazy Pete the Therapist by her worried folks, Sarah tentatively starts to blog her life and experiences online.

Articulate, hilarious and endearing, if at times capricious and verging on the downright ‘emo’, serafina’s blog entries attract friends both old and new. There is patchworkboy, her sweet guitar-hero new boyfriend; cameraobscurer, the ultra-hip Year 12er; and serafina’s long-suffering best friend fantastica. But then there are also the bitchy girls who make life hell when a discussion of eating disorders passes from the internet to school gossip, and just who is the mysterious daisy13?

serafina is a teenage Bridget Jones for the Myspace generation – who’s about to find out the benefits and the dangers of ‘revealing yourself’ online!