While Bates won an essay writing contest in elementary school, and always enjoyed writing, she didn’t consider doing so for publication until encouraged by a college instructor. Bates, is an American author, who has written the teen suspense novels Party Line, Final Exam, Mother’s Helper, The Dead Game and Krazy 4 U.īates’s early life was spent in Washington state, New Mexico, Idaho and California, with the family moving regularly to follow her father’s employment in the nuclear safety field.

NB – as this is a discussion this will contain spoliers!Īuline Bates, pen name A. I loved this book and it generated a fab Point Horror discussion and I have had the absolute honour of putting some questions to Auline!įor this task I recruited some awesome #pointhorrorbookclub members as well as myself with some burning questions for Auline! Thanks for all of the brilliant questions!Ĭheck out the #pointhorrorbookclub ‘s verdict on The Dead Game here The #pointhorrorbookclub have recently read the awesome The Dead Game by A Bates. Juno announced in January 2015 that she was no longer able to carry on #pointhorrorbookclub and with her blessing I am going to try and carry it on with version 2! Juno has done a fantastic job – I hope I can keep up her good work *gulps*įor links to #pointhorrorbookclub posts old and new please click here They were basically what I was reading and enjoying as a young adult and thanks to the author Juno Dawson, who started #PointHorrorBookClub on her website in 2013, I have started to re-read these books that I used to rush to the shops every weekend and buy and sit for the whole weekend reading. There were a number of authors that wrote these books for Scholastic: R L Stine, Diane Hoh, Caroline B Cooney, Sinclair Smith to name but a few. Do you remember the Point Horror Book Series from the 90’s? The Point Horror Series was a series of young adult point horror books and was launched in 1991 by Scholastic always with the Point Horror banner on the spine and on the top of every point horror book.

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