Season one, episode four of the Genre-rama podcast is titled: How to Write Teen Fiction and features an interview with author Sophie McKenzie.

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CAST

Host: Helen Cox

Guest: Sophie McKenzie.

Sophie McKenzie is the multi-award-winning, original queen of teen thrillers, whose debut, Girl, Missing, is still a top-ten YA bestseller fifteen years after first publication. Sophie followed this success with two further books in the series: Sister, Missing and Missing Me, alongside over 20 other adventure and romance novels, including The Medusa Project series, Blood Ties and Blood Ransom. Her latest teen thriller, is Hide and Secrets, published July 2021.

Sophie's first adult novel, Close My Eyes, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club and she has since published three more psychological thrillers for grown-ups. Her books have sold more than one million copies in the UK alone and are translated and sold all over the world.  She lives in North London.

http://www.sophiemckenziebooks.com 

Twitter: @sophiemckenzie_

Instagram: @sophiemckenziebooks

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