Grace Dent (Diary of a Snob) was interviewed in the magazine about her 'Seven Secrets for Survival' It was a full page article but she touched on Don't let other people's advise shape your life, accept that you'll never make everybody like you, stay on good terms with your mother, don't have 'guilty pleasures', it's mostly how you look and not what you say, remember that everything passes and finally never lose your sense of humour. -- Scots Man 20090905

Grace Dent is one of the hottest names in teen fiction right now. No other author nails how young people REALLY speak and behave. In fact, the many 1000s of SBW fans refuse to believe that the vivid Essex sensation is a fictional character! Grace says: '...kids who claim to have never read anything longer than a text message are ploughing through my books nagging for the for the next one. This makes me insanely proud.' Grace is a comedy writer and broadcaster specialising in all aspects of 'Pop Culture'. She is a presenter on The Culture Show on BBC2 and has recently interviewed Mitchell and Webb and the cast of Gavin and Stacey. She lives in East London with her husband, who works in the music industry. When she's not writing comedy Grace is to be found 'faffing about on the internet' or 'faffing about in the garden or kitchen' or 'just 'faffing about generally. I'm an excellent faffer.'