Bad Blood press and news
Bad Blood longlisted for the Manchester Book award
Bad Blood has been longlisted for the 2009 Manchester Book Awards. The shortlist will be decided by the young people of Manchester in November and there will be an award ceremony at the City of Manchester Stadium, Wed March 11, 2009, for the shortlisted authors.
Bad Blood longlisted for the BookTrust prize
The longlist of 16 books includes Bad Blood.
See here for more.
Bad Blood longlisted for the Guardian prize
Bad Blood has been longlisted for the Guardian prize in May 2008. Julia Eccleshare wrote of the eight longlisted books: "...these brave and ambitious books portray the journey from child to adult as a complicated, hazardous and unpredictable one."
Rhiannon visited the Hay-on-Wye book festival where she was announced as a longlisted author and interviewed by Julia Eccleshare before taking questions from the audience. She also signed copies of her books for a queue of enthusiastic fans.
Read the full article at The Guardian website.
Bad Blood shortlisted for the Leeds book award
Bad Blood was shortlisted for the Leeds book award in 2008. The winner was The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Visit the photo album to see photogaphs from the award ceremony in Leeds.
Boses Blut published in Germany
Bad Blood was published in hardback in Germany in 2008 by Fischer (ISBN 978-3-596-85297-0). It was translated into German by Anna Julia Strüh and Christine Strüh. A German audio edition (ISBN 978-3-86610-482-2) is narrated by Anna Julia Strüh and a paperback edition is forthcoming.
Visit the Fisherverlage homepage for more information about the German edition.
Blackwells signing and competition
Rhiannon read from the book at Blackwells in Oxford and ran a competition to win copies of Bad Blood. Visit the photo album to see photogaphs from the signing and of the competition winners.
Bad Blood published
Bad Blood was published in paperback in the United Kingdom by OUP in August 2007. Visit the photo album to see photogaphs from the launch party in London.
Press release
The official press release for Bad Blood, from Oxford University Press.
Sticks and stones may break your bones... but names will surely kill you.
Think 'The Blair Witch Project', Stephen King, and James Herbert for teens.
Think terrifying psychological horror.
Think about leaving the light on when you read it.
Bologna 2007
While Oxford University Press children's fiction division celebrated their centenary at the Bologna Rights Fair, a Bad Blood show card prominently adorned the stand.
You can read about Rhiannon's visit to Bologna on this site in her weblog entry and see more photographs in the photo gallery.
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