 Tony Jones, the YA horror expert who curates the teen section of the site ‘Young Blood’ will be interviewing two rising stars of the genre Kathryn Foxfield (GOOD GIRLS DIE FIRST) and Cynthia Murphy (LAST ONE TO DIE) at the Cymera Festival for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. The panel is called "FRIENDS OR FOES" and sits on Sunday 6th June, 11am, going out live on Zoom. Tony has been a secondary school librarian since 1994 and is regarded as an authority on YA horror, who has been writing for Ginger Nuts since 2015 and a horror fan since he learned to walk. Since 2015 Ginger Nuts has become a leading light on the YA horror genre, interviewing many of the top authors and reviewing countless novels. Some of his most popular features include his Christmas roundups, annual reviews on the HWA YA Stoker Award, and his multi-part articles on series in horror. Tony’s top fifty YA horror novels of the last decade, published last year, attracted considerable attention in the horror community. Both novels were previously reviewed on Ginger Nuts: Good Girls Die First: https://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/young-blood/-good-girls-die-first-by-kathryn-foxfield Last One To Die: https://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/young-blood/last-one-to-die-by-cynthia-murphy-book-review FRIENDS OR FOES will be a fascinating discussion taking in conversation points as wide-ranging as:
https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/book-tickets/murphy-foxfield?fbclid=IwAR38T5v-A0ZnhAAMOr1kJlAHPnvDk9N47M8cJ2i_a5mQgGiLXwFQbJ8gRVY More about Cynthia Murphy: Cynthia Murphy is a YA writer from the North-West of England, though her ‘real job’ is in education. She has a long-standing love affair with all things scary, reading Point Horrors at primary school before graduating to Stephen King in her misguided teens. Classic 90s and 00s horror movies are definitely her pub quiz strong point and her first love may well have been Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Studying for a degree in Art History and Archaeology meant that she developed a thirst for anything old, beautiful and very often dead. She tries to combine this with contemporary settings in her writing to make unique and chilling modern stories. Cynthia is married to her best friend and they share (are ruled by) a Romanian rescue dog called Loli, who loves to steal socks. Her YA thriller Last One To Die is published by Scholastic in the UK. More about Kathryn Foxfield: Kathryn Foxfield writes dark books about strange things. She blames her love of the creepy and weird on a childhood diet of Point Horror, Agatha Christie and Dr Who. She writes about characters who aren’t afraid to fight back, but wouldn’t last 5 minutes in one of her own stories. Kathryn is a reformed microbiologist, one-time popular science author, cat-servant and parent. She lives in rural Oxfordshire but her heart belongs to London. Her YA thriller Good Girls Die First is published by Scholastic in the UK. Find out more about Cymera 2021 here: https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2021-digital-events Comments are closed.
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