Eve White: Literary Agent

Mslexia's Oct/Nov/Dec issue features Flame Books in the Independent Press profile. They included mini reviews of Flame's three latest titles, including Give Me a Sign by Shanta Everington.

"Liz... is a teenager... with self-esteem issues that verge on the heartbreaking - at one point, looking at herself in the mirror and mulling over her body hair and non-existent cleavage, she even thinks, 'Maybe I am turning into a man.' She has enough external problems to keep her distracted, including an impossibly well-behaved friend Meiying, and a crush on the gorgeous Doug Williams. This is a story of first love and finding yourself, and Everington manages to write about a range of issues - deafness, teenage insecurity, cultural pressures - with authenticity and a light touch."

'What each of these books has in common is a commitment to story, which is really just another way of saying that these three writers have something to say.'