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NEWS FLASH: Crossroad Films have bought the film option for Pulling Princes! (picture moi doing small skip of delight!) You can now chat to one another by pressing the Blog BUNNY BLOG ABOVE AND CHAT YOURSELF MAD. Also you'll find daily gossip and cool song links

Duelling Princes - Bestseller!

Oh my giddy aunt, can you believe it, my mad little book Duelling Princes is currently on the bestseller table at Borders. Worshipful praise to all of you Darlings, for putting it there. Now we just have to drag random people from the streets (including chavs and psycho-toffs!) into bookshops so mad sales will get those auditions for the film cracking.

Oh! And I really, really love you Borders-type people. You rock!

Posted: Friday the 19th of May, 2006

Latest book release dates...

Book publishing dates for the USA - Bloomsbury USA

Pulling Princes 2005

Stealing Princes Hardback June 2005

Dueling Princes Hardback December 2005

Dumping Princes is Hardback in December 2006

True Love, The Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles 30th October 2007

Book publishing dates for the UK - Piccadilly Press

Pulling Princes: 2004

Stealing Princes December 2005

Duelling Princes April 2006

Dumping Princes January 2007

Posted: Saturday the 20th of May, 2006

Website happenings ...

Idols, and Latinology.

Posted: Monday the 22nd of May, 2006

Ranting Girls

NOTICE! All rants have now been moved to the blog! press your mouse over the bunny that reads BLOG and have your own little rant

Posted: Friday the 26th of May, 2006

Kids night in

Look out for the absolutely mad short story by Tyne O'Connell to be included in the next Kid's Night In collection. The short stories are already out in Australia published by Penguin and will hit shelves in the UK next year published by Harper Collins UK. The proceeds of sales of the book go to WarChild and No Strings, my personal two favourite charities in the entire world. If you buy the book you can get a great read as well as help children in war zones all over the world. I can't think of a better reason to buy a book.

Posted: Tuesday the 30th of May, 2006

Latest Press

Tyne O’Connell: Back to Basics

Being passionate about what you do is the key to being successful. And when inspiration and passion meet, magic happens. Such is the case in Tyne O’Connell’s Youth Adult fiction books.
With a compelling series about an American teen going to live at an English boarding school and “pulling” the prince of England, entitled the Calypso Chronicles, and a new book, True Love, The Sphinx and Other Unsolvable Riddles, O’Connell is not only a well-known author, but a highly successful writer, whose passion for her work and inspiration from her travels, truly do allow the reader to unwrap the magic of her stories just by opening one of her books.
But even highly talented authors must begin somewhere. For O’Connell, that somewhere started when she was only nine years old. “My English teacher was handing back our marked homework – a short story about anything. When I went to get my paper from her desk she gripped my hand in hers and pronounced, ‘You will be an author.’” With her teacher’s words, swimming through her mind, O’Connell let her teacher’s, “prophecy become my goal.”
It was not until she met her second husband while she was living in Cairo, that she actually made this goal a reality. She wrote her first book in 1990, but claims, “it was ghastly and I didn’t keep it.” With other books failing, O’Connell sat at home and watched as the rejection letters piled one after another. It wasn’t until her first husband met a famous editor at a big publishing house in 1995 that things started going. The editor liked what she saw in O’Connell’s books and wanted to help foster her career.
Being elated by the facts, “I went home…but instead of doing rewrites, I wrote 30 more pages of a new book. I don’t know why but it seemed right.” And right it sure was. One week later she had a two book deal based solely on those 30 pages.
Two books was just the start of it, though. O’Connell’s career was about to explode, and of course in a big way. With many other Youth Adult fiction books and Adult books written, some offers rolled in for T.V. shows and now even movies.
For those who love the Calypso Chronicles (which includes Pulling Princes, Dueling Princes, Stealing Princes, and Dumping Princes), a movie with a production company is in the works, as well as a fifth installment to the series, which was put aside to write her latest novel.
With so much talent and a lot of success to show for it, is there ever a break? “I write and read everyday wherever I am in the world. It defines me.” Ah, spoken like a true author.

Interview by Danielle Durban

Posted: Wednesday the 24th of October, 2007