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About

Melinda Salisbury is the four-time Carnegie nominated and bestselling author of multiple teen and young adult novels, including the Sin Eater's Daughter series, Hold Back the Tide, and Her Dark Wings, a Guardian Children's Book of the Year 2022 and a Reading Agency Book of the Year 2022 pick. Her debut teen novel, EchoStar, a tech thriller aimed at 12–14-year-olds, was published in March 2024 by Barrington Stoke, with AdelAIDE following in August 2024 and The Foundation publishing in January 2025.

 

Her first novel, The Sin Eater's Daughter, was the bestselling UK YA debut novel of 2015, and collectively her books have been nominated and shortlisted for numerous national and international awards and accolades, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Branford Boase, the Edgar Awards, the 2016 and 2019, 2021 and 2023 Carnegie medals, YALSA Best YA 2022, Eason's YA Book of the Month, and more. Her books have been published in sixteen countries to date.

 

When not writing, Melinda works as a writing mentor and development editor, and volunteers at a local independent cinema on the East Sussex Coast. Her agents are Claire Wilson at Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency, London, and Pete Knapp at Park and Fine Literary and Media, New York. 

YA Fiction

Books

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Recent and Upcoming Events

October 10th 2024 - Cheltenham Literature Festival, schools programme, Cheltenham

October 25th-27th 2024 - SCWBI Europolitan, Cologne

December 10th 2024 - Two Cities Book Award, Birmingham

Contact

For professional enquiries/bookshop/festival/school/library visits, email.

For professional enquiries/bookshop/festival/school/library visits relating to EchoStar, AdelAIDE, or the Foundation email: poppy.mclean@harpercollins.co.uk

For commissions/to work with Melinda, email: clairewilson@rcwlitagency.com

For film/TV/production rights, email: emily@theartistspartnership.co.uk

To write directly to Melinda, email.

 

Melinda is active on Instagram as @melindasalisbury

And on Bluesky as Melinda Salisbury

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