Emily Benet is a British-Spanish author.

Early life

Benet was born to a Spanish father and a Welsh mother and raised in South London until age 13. She then spent her teen years in Barcelona.[1][2]

Writing career

Benet has written three notable books, Shopgirl Diaries, Spray Painted Bananas, and "#PleaseRetweet". Spray Painted Bananas was republished in September 2014 by Harper Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins and renamed the Temp.[3] #PleaseRetweet is her latest book, published in August 2015.

She lists herself as a Wattpad sensation after her book received over one million hits, which led to her signing with a literary agent: MBA. She has a two-book deal with Harper Impulse.

ShopGirl Diaries

Her debut novel, Shopgirl diaries, began as a blog about working in her parents' chandelier shop and was commissioned as a book by Salt Publishing. It was also made into a short film starring Blake Harrison from the Inbetweeners, Katy Wix and Annette Badland.[4] The short film was selected for The London Short Film Festival in January 2014.

References

  1. ^ "How a Blog Helped Emily Benet Achieve Her Dream of Successful Authorship". How to Blog a Book. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  2. ^ "Author's Blog". Blogspot. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Author's Blog". Blogspot. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  4. ^ "film credits". IMDb. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Benet
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