![]() ![]() Q.How old were you when you had your first book published? ![]() I thought it would be only for one book, but I've written as Ann Halam and as Gwyneth Jones, alternately, ever since. It's my great-grandmother's name, but I spelled it wrong, it should be Ann Hallam. They asked me to use a different name if I sold it somewhere else. It was a comedy thriller (called Ally Ally Aster). Long ago, my publishers didn't like a book I offered them. Siberia (a scientific fairytale) was shortlisted for the Teenage Book Trust Prize.Ī. The Fearman (a vampire story) won the Children of the Night award. "If I'm going to take the trouble to write a whole book," she says, "It's going to be something that couldn't happen if I didn't invent it." Her other explanation is that she believes in strangeness. All her books have some kind of fantasy, ghost story, science fiction or horror element. Is the name Gwyneth Jones uses when writing for teenagers. ![]()
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