Cathy Cassidy was voted Queen of Teen in 2010 - beating Jacqueline Wilson and Louise Rennison to the throne. This has been an incredible experience for us and one that we will never forget. We had a wonderful time and it was awe-inspiring to meet Cathy and see what a lovely person she is in real life. Meeting Cathy has been an experience that has inspired us to keep on writing our own creations… In many ways it has motivated us to think outside of the (chocolate) box! Here are some of the questions we got to ask her: Skye wants to be her own person, but with an effortlessly cool twin, how can she? Will Skye ever step out of Summer's shadow and find her own chance to shine? This is the second book in the series and is centred around Skye solving the mystery of her distant relative, Clara, and getting out from her sister's shadow.

My first book, Dizzy, was published eleven years ago this summer, so I was clearly fairly ancient! My kids were aged nine and ten and I had decided to have a proper go at making my childhood writing dreams come true.

After the amazing twist at the end of Sweet Honey, the sixth and final book in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series follows Jake, the Tanberry sisters' newly discovered half-brother... But Jake's about to realize he can only escape his problems and his future for so long. However far you go, you can't outrun destiny . . . Third must-have title in this gorgeous series from one of the UK's best-loved girls' authors, Cathy Cassidy. The more Summer tries to find perfection, the more lost she becomes. Will she realise - with the help of the boy who wants more than friendship - that dreams come in all shapes and sizes?

Summer has always dreamed of dancing, and when a place at ballet school comes up, she wants it so badly it hurts.I write directly onto a laptop these days as it makes it so easy to edit and alter things as you go. When I started out, I wrote everything out in longhand in exercise books, then trained myself to type with two fingers on the ancient manual typewriter my dad used for typing invoices for his car repair business. These days I have a MacBook Air laptop and I love it. The first book in the series and is about Cherry Costello's new life when she moves to Tanglewood House to live with the Tanberry family. The next scrumptious story in Cathy Cassidy's Chocolate Box Girls series, following Cherry Crush and Marshmallow Skye. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson. It used to be the little blue shed in the garden when I lived in Scotland, but now I’m down on Merseyside I have an indoor writing room with all my favourite things in it. On sunny days I push up the sash window and sit on the sill with my feet on the little balcony and the laptop on my knee, dreaming and gazing out over the park.