Emily Benet
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Emily Benet is a British-Spanish author.
Early life
[edit]Benet was born to a Spanish father and a Welsh mother and raised in South London until age 13. She then spent her teen years in Barcelona.[1][2]
Writing career
[edit]Benet has written three notable books, Shopgirl Diaries, Spray Painted Bananas, and "#PleaseRetweet". Spray Painted Bananas was republished in September 2014 by Harper Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins and renamed the Temp.[3] #PleaseRetweet is her latest book, published in August 2015.
She lists herself as a Wattpad sensation after her book received over one million hits, which led to her signing with a literary agent: MBA. She has a two-book deal with Harper Impulse.
ShopGirl Diaries
[edit]Her debut novel, Shopgirl diaries, began as a blog about working in her parents' chandelier shop and was commissioned as a book by Salt Publishing. It was also made into a short film starring Blake Harrison from the Inbetweeners, Katy Wix and Annette Badland.[4] The short film was selected for The London Short Film Festival in January 2014.
References
[edit]- ^ "How a Blog Helped Emily Benet Achieve Her Dream of Successful Authorship". How to Blog a Book. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
- ^ "Author's Blog". Blogspot. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ "Author's Blog". Blogspot. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ^ "film credits". IMDb. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- 1980s births
- 21st-century British novelists
- British women novelists
- British women short story writers
- Living people
- English people of Spanish descent
- English people of Welsh descent
- English women bloggers
- Wattpad writers
- Writers from Barcelona
- Writers from London
- 21st-century British women writers
- 21st-century British short story writers