My beloved GodSquad: your author needs you. My new MG Series, VI SPY (illustrations by the fabulous Jez Tuya) is coming into the world in Feb. These are tricky times to promote a book and preorders are everything. I'd love you to order my book, so let me tell you about it:

In 2018, my 16-year marriage came to a very sudden and very sad end, breaking my heart and my home in two. I am blessed with a beautiful friendship with my ex-husband, but as anyone who has walked this path knows, it is utterly devastating for family, finances and futures.

My life, mind and heart were in pieces - trying to guide my beautiful babies through the bewildering new shape of their world was the hardest thing I have ever done and, in truth, it's taken me this long to come to terms with it. But I needed to make a positive. So I wrote.

I am a child of divorce, so I went back and thought about Young Maz, who loved watching James Bond with her Dad. I thought about the most mismatched couple I could and hit upon a super-spy and a super-villain. What would happen if they got divorced? And Vi's family was born.

Vi (Valentine Day) is desperate to be a spy, like her legendary spy mum, Easter Day. But Easter retired when Vi was born and is now super over-protective. She forbids Vi from pursuing a place at Rimmington Hall (the famous school for spies) and makes her promise to stay safe.

Vi agrees - but secretly works on a mission to save the world from Umbra, the evil overlord who vanished 10 years ago. Meanwhile at home, Easter is about to remarry - and her fiancé is Vi's teacher, Mr Sprout, father of Russell Sprout, the school's uber geek.

Vi had always believed her father Robert to have died when she was a baby - but on Mum and Mr Sprout's wedding day, Robert comes back from the dead and reveals himself to be Sir Charge, the infamous super-villain. He's still married to Easter. And he wants to see his daughter.

So now Vi finds herself stuck between her warring parents. Normal divorcing parents are bad enough, but when yours have an arsenal of weapons in the airing cupboard and can put tracking devices in your lunchbox, things get very messy very fast...

With Elliot's world, I wanted to shine a light on a hidden army of young carers. With Vi, I want to talk about divorce - which affects millions of kids - and reassure them that their parents might act like idiots to each other, but they utterly love them. It gets better. Honest.

I love this job, but one of my biggest frustrations is that, as an FFF (Funny, (non) Famous, Female) I can be confident of precisely zero press coverage for my new series. It was ever thus - WLTGO was reviewed nowhere and won nothing. But you made it a six-figure bestselling seri

And now I need you again. I don't write for critics (luckily...). I don't write for prizes (really luckily...). I write for you. I hope this book might help some of you. Even if it just makes you smile. So please order VI SPY from your local bookshop - huge love and thanks xxx