About Amy Hello, I'm Amy, an aspiring motorsports writer and former blogger. If you dig deeper enough, you find some very old blog posts, as this started as a book blog, but that's really where I got my start in writing: book reviews, hot book topics and as well as the odd personal essay. After leaving university, I left the book blog behind, but continued writing and going in the world of social media, writing film reviews and promoting queer cinema, but after a tragic event in my personal life, I quickly discovered Motorsports. What started as a love for Formula 1, while finally watching the Formula 1 film, Rush, and discovering Formula 1 TikTok, this love soon expanded to everything Formula E, IndyCar, Formula 2, Formula 3, as well as F1 Academy. I soon found the itch to write come back, with the fast-moving news of motorsport, to the drama, the competition, and the journey of drivers trying to find a race seat. I found that it was the people and storie...
So over the weekend I went to the Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC) which is an event in the UK which focuses on YA books but mainly UKYA. There were panels, signings and workshops and it was a very fun experience. I met lots of good people who have the same passion of books as I do and passionate authors who care about the community. As well as this there were lots of books to get, these included books that I got signed, advanced readers copies (ARCs), there were two book swap areas and books that I brought myself on the weekend. I walked away with so many new books that I actually haven't counted them yet and to be honest I don't really want to. As I bought too many books I did a book unhaul which you can see here . So lets get started... Signed Books (I didn't buy most of these except Am I Normal Yet?) All the authors I meet were really lovely and it was clear that they were passion not only about they own books but everyone else's books as well. ...