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19/08/2010:  I've been informed that my agent's website server has been hacked, and that anyone who clicked on the link to her site here may have been exposed to malware. I'm very, very sorry if this happened to you! I've deleted the link until the problem is fixed, and I've put some new links to great author blogs on the page.


19/06/2010: And just when you thought things couldn't get anymore exciting - I've decided to start a blog. This is a bit of an experiment, but I thought it would be nice to have somewhere to talk to people directly, run giveaways, post interesting videos, talk about books, whatever. Let me know if there are questions you would like answered or topics you want covered. If people follow the blog and comment then I'll keep it going. The page marked above will take you straight there.


18/06/2010: Not nearly enough of you guys are visiting me on YouTube. It's making me feel lonely. So - a new video posted here for you, some more book trailers posted - one on the DotF page, one on the TSK page - and please follow the link and rate or subscribe so that I know someone's watching!


11/06/2010: New Shadows on the Moon trailer on the book's page: not only is this one much prettier, it gives you a bit more information about the all important plot of the book...


13/05/2010: Amazing news today - I will never think the 13th is unlucky again. My publishers have just contacted me to let me know that they're going to move Shadows on the Moon's release date forward to July 2011. They're setting the release date for the sequel to Daughter of the Flames at July 2012. And even more amazing, they're going to reissue TSK and DotF in brand new covers at the same time. I love Walker Books. Hurrah!


27/04/2010: Having been a devoted YouTube watcher for quite some time, I've decided to join the party. For more information, watch the video above.
Zoë's Home


This website is a place for me to share information about my books, about writing, myself and other things I think are fun or useful. Anyone who loves books, reading and writing should find something interesting here - and any suggestions for new pages and topics can be sent to me on the link below. I update this site pretty frequently - more frequently when people are using it and sending me emails - so please check back often.

About me:


My full name is Zoë Davina Marriott and I was born on a rainy day in April twenty-something years ago.


I've known that I wanted to be a writer since I finished reading my first book; 'The Magic Faraway Tree' by Enid Blyton. I think I was about eight, but I've never changed my mind in all the years since then. 

My favourite film is 'Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' and my favourite colour is green.


I can't name a favourite book - there are far too many that I love. Favourite authors are Tamora Pierce, Robin McKinley, Megan Whalen Turner, Terry Pratchett, Garth Nix, Mary Stewart, Jane Austen, Diana Wynne Jones, Sherwood Smith, Lois McMaster Bujold...and many more!


I live in a little house in a town by the sea, with my two rescued cats, one called Hero after a Shakespearian character and one Echo after a nymph from a Greek myth.

I also have a springer/cocker spaniel called Finbar (otherwise known as The Devil Hound). There's a picture of him below.
My fantasy for young adults,The Swan Kingdom was published by Walker Books in the UK and Candlewick Press in the US.

The Swan Kingdom was short-listed for the 2008 Lincolnshire Young People's Book Award, nominated for a 2008 Cybil Award in the Young Adult SF category, long-listed for the Branford Boase Award for 2008, and is on in the USBBY List of Outstanding International Books  for 2009.  It is also on the International Reading Association Young Adult's Choices Booklist 2010 and the American Library Association's List of Popular Paperbacks for 2010.  TSK may be getting on, but she's still got it. Praise and quotes about the book can be found here, and there.
My second young adult novel, Daughter of the Flames, was released in 2008 in the UK and came out in the US in February 2009. It has been listed in the American Library Associations Teen's Top Ten, was nominated for a 2009 Cybil Award and for the Amelia Bloomer Project. Other praise for and quotes about the book can be found here.

More information about each of these stories and how they came to be written, along with their first chapters, can be found on their individual pages. 

The website is also stuffed with lists of books, authors and music that I recommend, links to other sites I like, information about how I write, and lots more. Any comments or questions, or suggestions on things you'd like me to add, can be sent to me  at zdmarriott at gmail dot com.

Please leave the password Alexandra in the subject line (this is to fool spammers). I look forward to hearing from you.
All text Copyright Zoë Marriott 2009


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