Sarra Manning is an English writer and journalist. She attended the

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and took an English with media studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to ''

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''. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine ''

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''. Manning was the editor of ''

Elle Girl ''Elle Girl'' was the largest older-teen fashion and beauty magazine brand in the world with twelve editions. Launched in August 2001, it was the younger sister version of ''Elle'' magazine, and similarly focused on beauty, health, entertainm ...

'' (UK edition), then re-launched ''What To Wear'' magazine for the BBC and has worked on UK magazines such as ''Bliss'' and ''

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''. She has contributed to ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Guardian'' and ''

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'' and is a contributing editor to ''Elle UK''. She writes regularly for ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''Stella'', as well as consulting for a number of British magazine publishers. She has been dubbed the "teen queen extraordinaire" following the publication of her hit teen fiction book ''Guitar Girl'', and the popular ''Diary of a Crush'' trilogy. Manning is currently the literary editor of ''Red'' magazine, a UK women's magazine.

Novels

She has written over 25 novels, both young adult and adult. Her first young adult novel, ''Guitar Girl'', was published in 2003. Her first adult novel, ''Unsticky'', was published by Headline in 2009.

Personal life

She currently lives in

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. She had a Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Miss Betsy, and is an advocate for dog adoption.

Publications

* ''Guitar Girl'' - UK, 2003; US, 2004 * ''Diary of a Crush 1: French Kiss'' - UK, 2004; US, 2006 * ''Diary of a Crush 2: Kiss and Make Up'' - UK, 2004 (parts given away with ''Just Seventeen'' under the title, ''Losing It''); US, 2006 * ''Diary of a Crush 3: Sealed with a Kiss'' - UK, 2004 (parts given away with ''Just Seventeen'' under the title, ''American Dream''); US. 2006 * ''Pretty Things'' - UK & US, 2005 * ''Let's Get Lost'' - UK & US, 2006 * ''Fashionistas 1: Laura'' - UK, 2007 * ''Fashionistas 2: Hadley'' - UK, 2007 * ''Fashionistas 3: Irina'' - UK, 2008 * ''Fashionistas 4: Candy'' - UK, 2008 * ''Unsticky'' - UK, 2009 * ''Nobody's Girl'' - UK, 2010 * ''You Don't Have to Say You Love Me'' - UK, 2011 * ''Nine Uses For An Ex-Boyfriend'' - UK, 2012 * ''Adorkable'' - UK, 2012 *''It Felt Like A Kiss'' - 2013 * ''Diary of a Grace'' - 2014 * ''The Worst Girlfriend In The World'' - UK, 2014 * ''It felt like a Kiss'' - 2014 * ''After The Last Dance'' - UK, 2016 * ''London Belongs to Us'' - UK, 2016 * ''The House of Secrets'' - UK, 2017 *''The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp-'' UK, 2018

References

External links

Official author's blogAuthor's ''MySpace'' pageAuthor details

Penguin Group (USA)
"Spotlight on Sarra Manning"
''BBC Blast Writing'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Manning, Sarra Living people British journalists British women journalists Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Sussex Melody Maker writers British women editors English women novelists