Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The schoolgirl EL James: Teen author's romance ebook soars up the bestsellers lists ahead of paperback launch

By Lucy Waterlow
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Watch out EL James, there's a new writer out to steal your crown as a bestselling romance novelist - and she's only 17-years-old.
Like the 50 Shades author, Beth Reeks was snapped up by a publisher after her book was initially a hit online. Now her novel, The Kissing Booth, is set to be published in paperback which could see the teenager propelled even higher up the bestsellers lists.
Like James, Reeks' genre is romance but, befitting for her age and that of her target teen audience, she doesn't realm into the erotic. Her novel is described as a 'cool, sexy young adult romance', and is about the pretty and popular Rochelle Evans, who has never been kissed - until she falls for 'total player' Noah Flynn.
Watch out EL James! Teenage romance writer Beth Reeks is surging up the ebook charts with her debut novel
Watch out EL James! Teenage romance writer Beth Reeks is surging up the ebook charts with her debut novel

Beth, who goes by the pen-name Beth Reekles, wrote the story on a laptop in her bedroom in Newport, South Wales, around revising for her A Levels. 

She never expected to get a worldwide following after posting it on the website wattpad.com, an online community where writers can share their work with readers around the world.
'Not being that confident about what I was writing I liked the fact it was all done anonymously and thought I’d give it a go,' she told Wales on Sunday, who have crowned her the 'new teen queen of romance'.
'The only reason I wrote it in the first place was because everything else on the market for young adults seemed to be fantasy-themed involving vampires and werewolves, certainly not the kind of thing I was looking for as a reader,' she added.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2265819/Beth-Reeks-schoolgirl-EL-James-romance-ebook-The-Kissing-Booth-soars-bestsellers-lists.html#ixzz2IjF3FIIO

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