Estelle Maskame

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Estelle Maskame
BornJune 1997
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
NationalityScottish
Genre Young adult fiction
Website
estellemaskame.com

Estelle Maskame (born June 1997) [1] is a Scottish writer of young adult fiction.

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Early life

Maskame grew up in Peterhead, Scotland [2] and attended Peterhead Academy. [3]

She was writing full-length novels by the age of 11, and when she was 13 started posting her work online. [4] She published Did I Mention I Love You? (DIMILY) on Wattpad and promoted it on Twitter; it had over 4 million hits. [5]

Writing career

Maskame's first novel, Did I Mention I Love You? (DIMILY), was published by Black & White Publishing in 2015 when she was aged 17. It was followed by Did I Mention I Need You? (2015), Did I Mention I Miss You? (2016), and Just Don't Mention It (2018), then Did I Mention it's 10 Years Later? (2019) on the tenth anniversary of the first (online) publication. She wrote two stand-alone novels, Dare to Fall (2017) and The Wrong Side of Kai (2019), before her Mila Trilogy of Becoming Mila, [6] Trusting Blake, and The Making of Mila and Blake.

The DIMILY series has sold over 1.5 million copies and rights to its translations have been sold to 19 territories. [7]

Maskame's first new adult novel, Somewhere in the Sunset, is to be published in April 2024. [8]

Awards

Maskame won the 2016 Arts award of the Young Scot Awards [9] and was shortlisted for the Romantic Young Adult Novel of the Year Award. [4]

The Young Women's Movement named her as one of its "30 under 30" in 2016: this annual list comprises "30 women & non-binary people in Scotland, making changes in their community or wider society". [10]

Publications

Standalone novels

DIMILY series

  1. Did I Mention I Love You?. Black & White Publishing. 2015. [12] [13]
  2. Did I Mention I Need You?. Black & White Publishing. 2015.
  3. Did I Mention I Miss You?. Black & White Publishing. 2016.
  4. Just Don't Mention It. Ink Road. 2018. [14] [15]
  5. Did I Mention it's 10 Years Later?. Black & White Publishing. 2019.

The Mila trilogy

  1. Becoming Mila. Black & White Publishing. 2021. ISBN   9781785303326. [4]
  2. Trusting Blake. Ink Road. 2021. ISBN   9781785303630.
  3. The Making of Mila and Blake. Ink Road. 2022. ISBN   9781785303777.

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