Booklist described Shantallow as 'serious, literary and very scary' and Kirkus called it 'gut-wrenching on various levels.' It was an Ottawa Book Awards finalist and was longlisted for the Sunburst Award. In 2019 I made my horror debut with DCB under the name Cara Martin. Packed with movies references and giddy love for Dublin, Ireland, Just Like You Said It Would Be is a frank exploration of first love, full of confusion, elation, disappointment and its knack of making the ordinary seem amazing. My 2017 young adult novel, Just Like You Said It Would Be, is the book of my heart. They also published my middle grade sci-fi, Stricken. Two of my contemporary YA books, The Sweetest Thing You Can Sing and Delicate, were published by Cormorant Books' Dancing Cat Books imprint in 20. I released Yesterday's sequel, Tomorrow, in 2013 and put out my first adult novel, Come See About Me, as an ebook in June 2012. My first young adult book, I Know It's Over, came out with Random House in September 2008, and was followed by One Lonely Degree, The Lighter Side of Life and Death, My Beating Teenage Heart and sci-fi thriller Yesterday. I became an Irish citizen in 2001 and continue to visit Dublin as often as I can while working on novels about young people. You have most of your life to be an adult but you only grow up once.Ĭurrently residing near Toronto with my Dub husband, I'm an aunt to twenty-one nieces and nephews, and a great-aunt to five great-nieces and two great-nephews.

By then I'd discovered that fiction about young people felt the freshest and most exciting to me.

I always believed I'd get around to writing in earnest eventually, and I began writing my first novel in a flat in Dublin and finished it in a Toronto suburb. (Hons) in film studies but a fine way to get a general arts education.Īfter getting my film studies degree I headed for Dublin, Ireland and spent the majority of the nineties there in forgettable jobs meeting unforgettable people and enjoying the buzz. No surprise, then, that most of my time spent at York University in Toronto was as an English major-not the traditional way to graduate with a B.A.

Throughout high school my favourite class was English. Long before I was an author I was a fan of books about Winnie the Pooh, Babar, Madeline, Anne Shirley and anything by Judy Blume.

I Know It's Over by C.K. Kelly Martin