Beth Garrod

Hello - I'm Beth, and I write comedy fiction and graphic novels (and bad author profiles).

Super Awkward was my debut YA book, Truly Madly Awkward was the sequel, and Access All Awkward was the third in the Awkward trilogy. I also have some standalone comedy YA books - Take A Chance On Me, a summer-holiday awkward-fest which and two festive romcoms, All I Want for Christmas (which came out as 'Blame It On The Mistletoe' in the US) and All The Jingle Ladies.

My youngest books are the The Inflatables, a 6+ graphic novel series about the adventures of Donut, Flamingo, Cactus and Watermelon - four forgotten inflatables at Have A Great Spray Water Park. I write this with the amazing Jess Hitchman, and they're illustrated by the incredible Chris Danger.

I also have two contemporary Middle Grades (but with a little magical twist.....) Sister Switch and The (Un)fortunate Wishes of Nelly Young (although that's not out til February '23).

My day job is making stuff for TV, radio and online, mainly around social impact themes, and I've worked on everything from Blue Peter to Radio 1 to MTV. Career highlight was probably fishing out Miley Cyrus' used face-wipe from a bin.

I live in east London, and dream of owning a dog.

If you want to get in touch about that - or anything else - head to bethgarrod.com or follow me on Twitter @bethg or IG @beth__garrod.