Beth Reekles

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Beth Reekles
BornBeth Reeks [1]
(1995-06-07) 7 June 1995 (age 28)
Newport, Wales
Alma mater Exeter University
Notable works
  • The Kissing Booth (2012)
  • Rolling Dice (2013)
  • Out of Tune (2014)
  • The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance (2020)
Website
www.authorbethreekles.com

Beth Reekles (pen name of Beth Reeks, born 7 June 1995) is a Welsh author of young adult fiction.

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Biography

Beth Reekles was born on 7 June 1995 [2] and grew up in Newport, Wales where she attended local primary school Mount Pleasant Primary and comprehensive Bassaleg School. [3] She graduated from Exeter University with a degree in physics. [4]

When Reekles was 15, having grown tired of stories of "vampires and werewolves", she wrote her first young adult novel, The Kissing Booth, publishing it chapter by chapter on Wattpad, a story sharing site. [3] [5] [6] The novel was immensely popular, winning the Wattpad 2011 prize for Most Popular Teen Fiction, [1] and when she was 17, she was offered a three-book contract by Penguin Random House. [7] [8] The Kissing Booth was published by Penguin Random House in 2012, followed by Rolling Dice and Out of Tune. [9] [10] A year later, she was named by Time magazine as one of "The 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013". [11] [12] She was named in The Times as one of the "Top 25 under 20 The new icons of a generation" in 2014. [13]

The Kissing Booth was adapted for film, also titled The Kissing Booth , which premiered on Netflix in 2018. [5] A sequel The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance was published in 2020 and a film adaptation, The Kissing Booth 2 , premiered on Netflix the same year. [14] A third film The Kissing Booth 3: One Last Time accompanied by a book was released on 11 August 2021. [15] Reekles's first adult novel, Love, Locked Down, was published by Sphere Books in February 2022. [16] Beth's novel Faking It was published on 2 February 2023.

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  2. ↑ "FIRST PERSON: Newport teen author Beth Reeks". South Wales Argus. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2024. I was born on June 7, 1995...
  3. 1 2 "The Kissing Booth: How a Newport teen author inspired Netflix". BBC News. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
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  5. 1 2 "Beth Reekles' The Kissing Booth now a Netflix film". BBC News. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
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  7. ↑ Lodge, Sally (3 April 2013). "Random House Acquires Novel by Teen Wattpad Star". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
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  10. ↑ Rao, Sonia (13 July 2018). "How 'The Kissing Booth' went from a teenager's passion project to a Netflix sensation". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  11. ↑ "The 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013 | Beth Reekles, 17". Time. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  12. ↑ Morris, Steven (25 November 2013). "Welsh author Beth Reekles named on list of world's most influential teenagers". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  13. ↑ "Top 25 under 20 | The new icons of a generation" . The Times . 11 August 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  14. ↑ Weston, Christopher (24 July 2020). "The Kissing Booth 2 book ending explained: Netflix adaptation finally here". HITC. GRV Media. Retrieved 18 August 2020. As you'll be aware, the latest film is an adaptation of the novel The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance, written by Beth Reekles.
  15. ↑ Boucher, Brooke (11 August 2021). "Beth Reekles The Kissing Booth 3 released on Netflix". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  16. ↑ Hackett, Tamsin (21 April 2021). "Sphere acquires lockdown love story from Reekles". The Bookseller. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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