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Kumari is the star of a series of books written by Amanda. The first one, KUMARI – GODDESS OF
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| KUMARI REDHOUSE BOOK OF THE MONTH - FREE COPIES TO WIN! |
| We're Lovin' Lola! |
| GODDESS OF GOTHAM OUT IN PAPERBACK! |
| Have a Divine Christmas! |
| Hello from Bulgaria! |
| GODDESS TIP |
| Lyrebird |
| KUMARI NOMINATED FOR WATERSTONE'S BOOK PRIZE |
| Readers - You Rock! |
| BOOK TWO ON THE WAY... |
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Win A Copy Of Goddess Of Gotham And A Kumari T-shirt! Posted by good007n April 24, 2008 |
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Just when you think you know what you're talking about...... Posted by AGgirl March 16, 2008 |
“Amanda Lees was brilliant! If you haven't read her book Kumari - Goddess of Gotham I highly recommend it!”
Lisa Clark, agony aunt, MIZZ magazine
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Hello from Amanda!
Hello and welcome to a very special place on the web – home to KUMARI’S KINGDOM and much more besides!
I’m so very glad you dropped by – do join us so that you can really benefit from everything my site has to offer (see below for a taster!).
Joining here is completely free. Once you’re a member, you can read my private diary (ok, it’s not so private now!) and inside the members-only forum you’ll be able to meets lots of readers, take part in tons of competitions with brilliant prizes, and generally have a ball – just the way Kumari would!
So what are you waiting for? Let’s get the party going!
To celebrate the launch of Amanda's new book KUMARI – GODDESS OF GOTHAM we’re running some FANTASTIC competitions! So join up now – it’s fun and free – and start entering!
YOUR BEST GODDESS TIP!
We want you to give us your very best how-to-be-goddess tip… it might be hair, diet, makeup or absolutely anything that’s guaranteed to make you feel like a goddess! Enter as many times as you want… the best entry wins a valuable personally-dedicated copy of KUMARI – GODDESS OF GOTHAM plus a unique KUMARI T-shirt! Click here for more…
YOUR BEST PICTURE OF BADMASH!
We all love Badmash, Kumari's cute 'n' cuddly pet baby vulture. And Badmash loves food, especially the sweet, sticky kind. True, he's a bird with a lot of attitude (did you know his name means ‘naughty’?) but underneath that babyfluff there’s a big heart. Draw, paint or even collage a picture of Badmash and you could win a signed first edition copy of KUMARI, GODDESS OF GOTHAM together with a fabulous KUMARI teddy bear! Click here for more…
YOUR BEST KUMARI STORY!
That’s right – we want you to write a short story featuring girl-goddess Kumari! Keep it under 1500 words – entries will be judged by Amanda herself, and the winner will receive dedicated copy of KUMARI – GODDESS OF GOTHAM plus a unique KUMARI Goddess Journal! Click here for more…
AND BEST OF ALL…
We really want you to have a great time here meeting other readers and fans of KUMARI… so join in now and let’s start the party! Click here to join!
 | Check out the BRAND NEW GAMES in the Arcade inside… make your own super-cool LIVING AVATAR from your control panel… get free BANNERS & WALLPAPER from the Cool Stuff section… And did we mention all those fantastic CONTESTS? Of course we did!!! So don't hang around - come on in NOW! |
If you think it’s hard being a teen goddess, just try writing about her!
Read on to find out what I’ve been up to recently… If you’re a member, you can DISCUSS my diary (really! Say anything you want!) inside the forum and find out some more secret snippets exclusively shared with members.
Not a member yet? Then you MUSTN’T read my diary! Shame on you!!!
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The fabulous folk at Redhouse - www.redhouse.co.uk - have nominated Kumari to be their Book of the Month for May and, even better, they have 10 signed copies to give away! All you have to do is visit redhouse and click on the Reading Room link to ask me a question. The 10 best questions will receive a signed copy of the book so get clicking and think up something outrageously brilliant to ask me...
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In the first of a regular series of chats with other YA authors, I am proud to present the divine Lisa Clark, agony aunt extraordinaire for Mizz magazine and author of Think Pink and Beauty*licious. Now Lisa has written two more books starring the Queen of Thinking Pink, Lola Love. Viva La Diva and It's a Girl Thing are both available right now in any good book shop or online and we were lucky enough to grab a quick interview with both Lola and Lisa on their whirlwind book tour of cyberspace...
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Kumari Goddess of Gotham is out in paperback this week complete with all-new shiny cover! Hope you like the new look - let me know what you think in the forums...x
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A big Kumari kiss to all of you and have a wonderful time! x
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EmailA big hello to you all from Bulgaria where I am spending a rainy half term holiday starting Book 3 in the KUMARI series! It's the perfect weather for writing and at my tumbledown cottage here there are no distractions (and therefore no excuses!) - no internet, no TV and no signal to make a phone call. I've had to go into the nearest town, passing donkeys and carts on the road, to an internet cafe to post this message.
What's great about living like this for a week is that it gives me an even clearer idea of Kumari's world, the Hidden Kingdom, where there isn't even electricity, never mind a computer (although one does make an appearance in Book 2, Goddess of Secrets, but that's another story...)
Anyway, for those of you also on half term break, hope you are having a wonderful time and normal service will be resumed in a few days when I'm back in the real world!
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EmailI've been reading your entries for the Goddess Tip competition and I think they're fab - so fab in fact it's only fair I share one in return. Here's one that had everyone making like a major goddess at the Bath Lit Fest. Have a go and let me know how you get on!
Get a Goddess Grip
Next time you feel nervous about some kind of big (or small) event, try sitting quietly beforehand and picturing yourself strutting in there, super-confident. Make that picture really big and bright and now make a fist (or some other, similar gesture). Do this several times, concentrating as hard as you can. Then, as you make your grand entrance, repeat the gesture. You'll feel like a goddess and come over like one too!
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EmailThe lyrebird plays a walk-on part in the second book in the Kumari series, Goddess of Secrets and here is an incredible video clip I came across while doing my research:
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Those fabulous folk at Waterstone's have nominated KUMARI, GODDESS OF GOTHAM for the 2008 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. What can I say but thank you very much and I salute you on your excellent taste!
If any of you are in your local Waterstone's do let them know how much you love KUMARI - the more KUMARI love we spread around the better as far as I am concerned...x
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EmailSpent a couple of days last week meeting you lovely lot - first of all in Waterstone's, Walthamstow where I met students from Walthamstow Girls School and then at QEGS in Barnet. And what a brilliant bunch you all are!! Here's a pic of me talking to Year 8P at QEGS(and a big hello to Year 8L as well)
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EmailI'm just days away from finishing the first big edit of Book 2 in the Kumari series (and you thought we authors just sort of type it out and that's it?!) This time most of the action takes place in the Hidden Kingdom and it's possibly even scarier/faster/funnier than GODDESS OF GOTHAM with some big surprises to come!
You can get a sneak preview of the cover art below and even download it from the Freebies section of this site as wallpaper. The book is called GODDESS OF SECRETS and it's out in January 2008. That sounds like a long way off but actually it's only 3 months...3 MONTHS!!! I'd better get back to the author cubbyhole like NOW. See you when I emerge...
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