Sarra Manning

Sarra Manning is an English writer and journalist. She attended the University of Sussex and took an English with media studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to Melody Maker. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine Just Seventeen. Manning was the editor of Elle Girl (UK edition), then re-launched What To Wear magazine for the BBC and has worked on UK magazines such as Bliss and The Face. She has contributed to Elle, Seventeen, The Guardian and Details and is a contributing editor to Elle UK. She writes regularly for Grazia, Red and Stella, as well as consulting for a number of British magazine publishers. Her books include teen fiction book Guitar Girl, and the Diary of a Crush trilogy.

Manning is currently^[when?] the literary editor of Red magazine, a UK women's magazine.^[1]

Novels

She has written over 25 novels, both young adult and adult.^{[citation needed]} Her first young adult novel, Guitar Girl, was published in 2003. Her first adult novel, Unsticky, was published by Headline in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

She currently^[when?] lives in North London. She had a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Miss Betsy, and is an advocate for dog adoption.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

Guitar Girl - UK, 2003; US, 2004
Diary of a Crush 1: French Kiss - UK, 2004; US, 2006
Diary of a Crush 2: Kiss and Make Up - UK, 2004 (parts given away with Just Seventeen under the title, Losing It); US, 2006
Diary of a Crush 3: Sealed with a Kiss - UK, 2004 (parts given away with Just Seventeen under the title, American Dream); US. 2006
Pretty Things - UK & US, 2005
Let's Get Lost - UK & US, 2006
Fashionistas 1: Laura - UK, 2007
Fashionistas 2: Hadley - UK, 2007
Fashionistas 3: Irina - UK, 2008
Fashionistas 4: Candy - UK, 2008
Unsticky - UK, 2009
Nobody's Girl - UK, 2010
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - UK, 2011
Nine Uses For An Ex-Boyfriend - UK, 2012
Adorkable - UK, 2012
It Felt Like A Kiss - 2013
Diary of a Grace - 2014
The Worst Girlfriend In The World - UK, 2014
It felt like a Kiss - 2014
After The Last Dance - UK, 2016
London Belongs to Us - UK, 2016
The House of Secrets - UK, 2017
The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp- UK, 2018

References

^ "Sarra Manning". AM Heath Literary Agents. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

External links

Official author's blog
Author's MySpace page
Author details
Sarra Manning, Penguin Group (USA)
"Spotlight on Sarra Manning", BBC Blast Writing

[1] "Sarra Manning". AM Heath Literary Agents. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

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