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Latest coverage The UV2012 launch party, covered in The Bookseller. Thanks to Fenris Oswin for the party photography. 
Some otherpress for Undiscovered Voices:
Publisher’s Weekly, 21 February 2008, “Publishing the Unpublished”, run with photo
“This month, the SCBWI British Isles will publish Undiscovered Voices, an anthology of 12 stories and novel excerpts by promising British writers, featuring an introduction by David Almond (Clay). The 12 selections were chosen from more than 200 submissions by SCBWI members, and the anthology will be sent to UK-based editors and agents. Pictured here are 11 of the 12 selected authors at a launch party for the anthology at London's Foyles Bookshop...”
(Our first mention ever… we were so proud!)
The Bookseller, 28 March 2008, announcing Sarwat Chadda’s two book deal
“Puffin has secured the rights to Sarwat Chadda's The Devil's Kiss and a sequel in "a very nice" deal. Lindsey Heaven, senior fiction editor at Puffin, bought UK and Commonwealth rights in the dark teen novel, while Hyperion snapped up North American and Canadian rights for a major six figure sum.”
(Our first UV deal!)
The Bookseller, 4 July 2008, “Greenhouse hots up for Davies”
Reported on The Greenhouse Literary Agency’s first three deals, two of which (Sarwat Chadda and Harriet Goodwin) were “discovered by Davies as part of a project with the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators to publish Undiscovered Voices, a book of new writing by budding authors.”
The Guardian, 18 July 2009, review of Sarwat Chadda’s Devil's Kiss
Mythic, funny, violent and fast-moving, this thrilling adventure draws on the facts and mythology of the Knights Templar and their crusading missions. Slipping easily from today's London to gothic fantasy, Chadda weaves in heroine Billi SanGreal's Muslim background, too, as she takes up the challenges of her destiny.
BBC website November 2009: Harriet Goodwin’s The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards and selected for the CBBC Blue Peter Book Club
YouTube video of Melvin’s speech at the 2010 launch party
Poynton News, 31 July 2010, Harriet Goodwin visited a school after running a competition for students, the prize included naming a character in her next book after the winner!
The Bookseller, 8 Sept 2010, announced Usborne’s new acquisition of UV author, Paula Rawsthorne and The Truth about Celia Frost
The Sunday Times, 3 July 2010, “Top 100 best summer titles” picks UV author Candy Gourlay
The Times, 20 Nov 2010, “Recommended children’s books for Christmas” singles out UV author Candy Gourlay’s wonderful Tall Story:
“…another pleasure from the first to the last, and it displays the assurance of a born storyteller.”
Three UV authors pop up in the titles to watch in The Bookseller, 12 June 2011
ANGEL'S FURY by Bryony Pearce is "a book unlike any other". THE TRUTH ABOUT CELIA FROST by Paula Rawsthorne "combines hot topic affairs with a chilling thriller mystery". UNDEAD by Kirsty McKay: "A hit at Bologna, this debut novel keeps the thrills coming, leavening the horror with dashes of black humour".
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