It made me feel that it was worth pursing, and though my novel didn’t get me an agent, I wanted to write more novels, and I wanted to learn more about the craft. I was so delighted when you published my short story, The Night Train, and so encouraged when you continued to support my writing. And around that time I remember seeing Dear Damsels announced in The Bookseller and writing to you to ask if I could submit to you. I read that you should start with short stories, poems and such like. But it was 2016, when I was working on my first novel, that I started taking writing really seriously. That was the area of publishing I knew best, as I was a picture book editor. My first published work was a picture book in 2006, and I went on to write around thirty picture books, educational books and non-fiction texts for young readers. Hi Lucy! Would you mind telling us a bit about your journey to publication? We spoke to Lucy about her writing journey, the inspiration behind the novel and her advice on getting published.
Written in verse and telling the story of periods, sex and online shaming, Blood Moon has already received praise from the likes of Louise O’Neill and Sara Pascoe, and is helping to change the conversation around periods. Sure to be a conversation starter, Blood Moon is the unforgettable portrait of one girl's fight to reclaim her reputation and to stand up against a culture that says periods are dirty.Nothing pleases us more than when a DD writer goes on to have their writing published elsewhere – which is why we were delighted when Lucy Cuthew’s debut YA novel Blood Moonhit shelves earlier this summer. Brimming with emotion, the story captures the intensity of friendships, first love, and female desire, while unflinchingly exploring the culture of online and menstrual shaming.
As the online shaming takes on a horrifying life of its own, Frankie begins to wonder: is her real life over?Īuthor Lucy Cuthew vividly portrays what it is to be a teen today with this fearless and ultimately uplifting novel in verse. Who can she trust? Not Harriet, her suddenly cruel best friend, and certainly not Benjamin, the only one who knows about the incident. In the time it takes to swipe a screen, Frankie's universe implodes. But soon a gruesome meme goes viral, turning an intimate, affectionate afternoon into something sordid, mortifying, and damaging. This powerful, timely novel in verse exposes provocative truths about periods, sex, shame, and going viral for all the wrong reasons.Īfter school one day, Frankie, a lover of physics and astronomy, has her first sexual experience with quiet and gorgeous Benjamin-and gets her period.
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