Vanessa Curtis

I'm a children's author whose first book 'Zelah Green: Queen of Clean' is published by Egmont UK and won the Manchester Children's Book Awards 2010. It was also shortlisted for the 2010 Young Minds, the 2009 Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the NASEN awards and the 2010 Bolton Children's Book Awards and longlisted for the Branford Boase 2010. The sequel 'Zelah Green: One More Little Problem' is now released (Egmont).The first book in my new series, 'The Taming of Lilah May' is published by Frances Lincoln with a sequel out in early 2012. My first ghost story'The Haunting of Tabitha Grey', ghost story for 11+ isto be published April 2012 and a new two-part series featuring Amelie Day, 'The Baking Life of Amelie Day' is out later in 2012 too.I'm also a freelance book reviewer and the author of three books on Virginia Woolf.I'm represented by Peter Buckman at the Ampersand Agency and live near Chichester harbour.