Well, this was a hoot - as you'd expect from a guest like Jenny McLachlan, author of the BRILLIANT, bestselling ROAR books, as well as Dead Good Detectives, Stink (Worst. Fairy. Ever) and a whole load more. Jenny began her writing career with amazing YA books, before graduating into equally amazing Middle Grade novels and early readers - so, she has written across the ages, and with equal aplomb in all. She's funny, her characters are memorable, her stories are equal parts heartfelt and hilarious, and this chat was exactly the same. Come with us as we get to know the powerhouse that is Jenny McLachlan, and find out her answer to our perennial question: Are You Storyshaped?

Find Jenny online:

www.jennymclachlan.com

Her Twitter

Books mentioned in this week's episode include Jenny's own:

Flirty Dancing

Love Bomb

Star Struck

Stargazing for Beginners

Sunkissed

Truly, Wildly, Deeply

The Land of Roar

Return to Roar

The Battle for Roar

Dead Good Detectives

Pet Quest

The Jumpy Bumpy Feeling

The Quack in the Kitchen

There's a Chicken in my Bookbag

Zoom to the Moon,

Stink: Worst. Fairy. Ever.

And the stories that shaped her include:

Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad

Topsy and Tim, by Jean and Gareth Anderson

Helpers, Alfie, Moving Molly, and Dogger by Shirley Hughes

The work of Jackie Collins

The work of Jilly Cooper

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

The work of Jane Austen

The work of Charles Dickens

The Beano comic

Pippin in Playland comic

Annuals: Twinkle, Bunty, Mandy

Bella magazine

Just Seventeen magazine

Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

The work of Jacqueline Wilson

Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare

Circe, by Madeleine Miller

The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker

Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep, by Philip Reeve

The work of M.G. Leonard (check out our podcast chat with M.G. here)

TV influences:

Succession

Game of Thrones

Saving Lives at Sea (TV documentary)

Print Media:

Joseph Coelho: I set out to find the happiness I felt as a child, and it worked

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