Estelle Maskame

Maskame grew up in Peterhead, Scotland {{cite web |title=Estelle Maskame |url=https://blackandwhitepublishing.com/collections/authors-m-estelle-maskame |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=Black & White Publishing |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902162412/https://blackandwhitepublishing.com/collections/authors-m-estelle-maskame |url-status=live}} and attended Peterhead Academy.{{cite news |title=Teenage best-selling author reveals plans for new book |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14974642.teenage-best-selling-author-estelle-maskame-reveals-plans-new-book/ |access-date=1 November 2023 |work=The Herald |date=19 December 2016 |language=en}}

She was writing full-length novels by the age of 11, and when she was 13 started posting her work online.{{cite web |date=7 December 2020 |title=Scottish Author Highlights: Estelle Maskame |url=https://scottishbooksinternational.org/scottish-author-highlights-estelle-maskame/ |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=Scottish Books International |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902162453/https://scottishbooksinternational.org/scottish-author-highlights-estelle-maskame/ |url-status=live}} She published Did I Mention I Love You? (DIMILY) on Wattpad and promoted it on Twitter; it had over 4 million hits.{{cite news |last1=Maskame |first1=Estelle |date=25 June 2015 |title=Estelle Maskame: how social media made me a publishing sensation |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/jun/25/dimily-estelle-maskame-twitter-wattpad-social-media |access-date=1 September 2023 |archive-date=16 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316025417/https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/jun/25/dimily-estelle-maskame-twitter-wattpad-social-media |url-status=live}}

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,{{cite news |title=Becoming Mila: Tale of young romance that rises far above the ordinary |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/19338352.becoming-mila-tale-young-romance-rises-far-ordinary/ |access-date=1 September 2023 |work=The National |date=30 May 2021 |language=en |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902162415/https://www.thenational.scot/news/19338352.becoming-mila-tale-young-romance-rises-far-ordinary/ |url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web |title=Author: Estelle Maskame |url=https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors/estelle-maskame |access-date=1 September 2023 |website=Scottish Book Trust |language=en-gb |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902162438/https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/authors/estelle-maskame |url-status=live}}

Maskame's first new adult novel, Somewhere in the Sunset, is to be published in April 2024.{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Lauren |date=23 August 2023 |title=Ink Road seizes Maskame's 'sizzling' New Adult debut |language=En |work=The Bookseller |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/ink-road-seizes-maskames-sizzling-new-adult-debut |access-date=1 September 2023 |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902162418/https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/ink-road-seizes-maskames-sizzling-new-adult-debut |url-status=live}}

Maskame won the 2016 Arts award of the Young Scot Awards{{cite news |last1=Greenaway |first1=Heather |date=1 May 2016 |title=Young Scot overcomes illness to raise £100,000 to help others |language=en |work=Daily Record |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/young-scot-awards-2016-schoolgirl-7867195 |access-date=1 September 2023 |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902162453/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/young-scot-awards-2016-schoolgirl-7867195 |url-status=live}} and was shortlisted for the Romantic Young Adult Novel of the Year Award.

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".{{cite web |title=30 Under 30: 2016-2022 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6413232bf29ba901ed614415/t/64e4c565fe58fc1058b9e1f4/1692714343537/30+under+30+-+Full+List.pdf |access-date=1 September 2023 |publisher=The Young Women's Movement |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902162417/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6413232bf29ba901ed614415/t/64e4c565fe58fc1058b9e1f4/1692714343537/30+under+30+-+Full+List.pdf |url-status=live }}

• {{Cite book |title=Dare to Fall |publisher=Black & White Publishing |year=2017 |isbn=9781785301087}}{{Cite web |date=16 September 2018 |title=Dare to Fall |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/estelle-maskame/dare-to-fall/ |access-date=2 September 2023 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902163032/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/like-dislike/2000232580/ |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite book |title=The Wrong Side of Kai |publisher=Black & White Publishing |year=2019 |isbn=9781785302480}}

1. {{Cite book |title=Did I Mention I Love You? |publisher=Black & White Publishing |year=2015}}{{Cite web |date=9 November 2015 |title=Did I Mention I Love You? by Estelle Maskame |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781492632153 |access-date=2 September 2023 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902162958/https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781492632153 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=La Porta |first=Bernice |date=1 December 2015 |title=Did I Mention I Love You? |url=https://www.slj.com/review/did-i-mention-i-love-you |access-date=2 September 2023 |website=School Library Journal |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902163431/https://www.slj.com/review/did-i-mention-i-love-you |url-status=live }}
2. {{Cite book |title=Did I Mention I Need You? |publisher=Black & White Publishing |year=2015}}
3. {{Cite book |title=Did I Mention I Miss You? |publisher=Black & White Publishing |year=2016}}
4. {{Cite book |title=Just Don't Mention It |publisher=Ink Road |year=2018}}{{Cite web |date=9 September 2019 |title=Just Don't Mention It |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/estelle-maskame/just-dont-mention-it/ |access-date=2 September 2023 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902163451/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/like-dislike/2000232580/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Struecker |first=Natalie |title=Just Don't Mention It |url=https://www.slj.com/review/just-dont-mention-it |access-date=2 September 2023 |website=School Library Journal |archive-date=2 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902163438/https://www.slj.com/review/just-dont-mention-it |url-status=live }}
5. {{Cite book |title=Did I Mention it's 10 Years Later? |publisher=Black & White Publishing |year=2019}}

1. {{Cite book |title=Becoming Mila |publisher=Black & White Publishing |year=2021 |isbn=9781785303326}}
2. {{Cite book |title=Trusting Blake |publisher=Ink Road |year=2021 |isbn=9781785303630}}
3. {{Cite book |title=The Making of Mila and Blake |publisher=Ink Road |year=2022 |isbn=9781785303777}}

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