New Writing

#PleaseRetweet is the new novel by UEA alumna Emily Benet and is published this week by HarperImpulse. Emily (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature in 2002. Her debut book, Shop Girl Diaries, began as a blog about working in her mother’s chandelier shop and won the CompletelyNovel Author Blog Awards in 2010. Her second book, The Temp, began as a serialised novel on Wattpad and accumulated two million hits under its original title Spray Painted Bananas before begin published in paperback by HarperCollins. Emily has contributed articles on social media to guidebooks and magazines including  Publishing Talk, Blogging for Writers, Writers and Artists and Mslexia. She also runs social media workshops and in 2013 she published a guidebook Blogging for Beginners (2013).