More specifically, though, I think I’ve gotten a lot better at fleshing out the supporting characters in my stories. Well, I think I have become a better writer generally! I love Solitaire dearly because it began my writing journey, but it has a lot of flaws that I find hard to look back on. What aspect of your writing process or of yourself as a writer do you feel has changed the most? You started your writing career with Solitaire, when you were only seventeen , and since then, so much has happened to you career-wise. But it’s ironic too, because romantically she is loveless, and that’s okay, and she can still be happy! It’s such a big part of her and other characters’ journeys, it felt like the right title for the book. It’s a word that’s haunted her for a long, long time, and it’s a feeling that she fears so much that she can’t even identify that she isn’t ‘loveless’. But ‘loveless’ is a feeling that all of the protagonists are struggling with in one way or another – particularly the narrator, Georgia.

It is! One of the most important messages of the story is that nobody is really as ‘loveless’ as they think. Loveless is a novel full of love in all of its forms, but its title is quite paradoxical? Why did you decide to establish this contrast? I think it’s got to be ‘Love of the Loveless’ by Eels! Though I do have a whole Loveless playlist, which you can listen to here. I’m also the writer and illustrator of webcomic/graphic novel series HEARTSTOPPER! If you could identify Loveless with a song that captures its essence, which one would it be and why? Hi! Thank you so much! I’m a twenty-five-year-old writer of four young adult novels: LOVELESS, I WAS BORN FOR THIS, RADIO SILENCE, and SOLITAIRE. Could you please start by telling us a bit about yourself? Not quite convinced about giving Loveless a go? Well, you definitely should, because we are sure it will become one of the most relevant #OwnVoices of the decade! Hello, Alice! Congratulations on your new novel, Loveless. Today, we are chatting with her about her latest novel, Loveless, which is out now! We talk to her about her writing process, her trajectory as an author, and the importance of including aromantic/asexual representation in the media. You may have already heard of Alice Oseman, thanks to Heartstopper, her heartwarming graphic novels, or Radio Silence, one of the most beloved contemporary YA novels in the British literary scene.

Radio silence webcomic