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Editing Emma: Online you can choose who you want to be. If only real life were so easy...
Chloe Seager
Move over Georgia Nicolson. Say goodbye to Geek Girl. Meet Emma Nash.When sixteen year old Emma is ghosted by love of her life Leon Naylor she does what any normal girl would do.Emma spends the summer lurking in her bedroom, avoiding all human contact (and the shower), surrounded by the collection of chewit wrappers she saved from packs Leon gave her, back when he actually acknowledged her existence…But seeing Leon suddenly ‘In a relationship’ on Facebook with the perfect Anna, spurs Emma into action and she embarks on a mission to make positive changes to her life (or ‘edits,’ if you will) and vows to use the internet for more than obsessively stalking Leon’s activities! Instead, she will use it for good and noble causes like finding someone who will actually be nice to her, and recording her findings for the rest of the world to see (i.e. BFF Steph and her mum) on her new Editing Emma blog.But Emma soon discovers her ‘habit’ is harder to break than she first thought – turns out she’s not the only one ‘editing’ herself online (thank you Tinder for finding her mum’s profile, age 35, really?) and that life through an Instagram filter isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. But it could be worse, she could have outed her best friend, accidentally chatted up a 12 year old boy and revealed to the world why Leon Naylor is worth no girl’s time or virginity… oh no wait, that’s exactly what happened…
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Ebook Edition © August 2017 ISBN: 9780008220983
Version: 2018-04-03
CHLOE SEAGER grew up in East London with her mum and much-loved cat, Katie. She studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, where she sadly realised she couldn’t act, but did rediscover her love of children’s books. Children’s Literature was one of her favourite modules, and it made her wonder why grown-ups ever stopped reading them. She now works with them full time as a YA/Children’s literary agent, and lives back in East London with her boyfriend and pet fish. Editing Emma is her first book.
Contents
Cover (#uf578649e-1b27-5da3-8ccd-a9c2a0854054)
Title Page (#u15cfbed9-4ce8-5230-a8eb-362ad2088438)
Copyright (#ulink_a3bb6123-00d1-5d4f-90c4-ff7b41527de2)
About the Author (#ulink_8dca5bf6-082d-5e0e-a92d-d8ef5c572a5a)
My Dingy Internet Cave Tuesday, 2 September i.e. Day 45 of Despair (#ulink_3ddbe1df-6cc7-5af2-be38-2b7880200124)
Wednesday, 3 September i.e. Day 46 of Despair (#ulink_e19d1f08-974e-5839-87bb-6711a81bd175)
Thursday, 4 September i.e. Day 47 of Despair (#ulink_190af4db-fd49-557b-ab20-841e267b4cdd)
Friday, 5 September i.e. Day 48 of Despair (#ulink_01685e5d-8d35-5fcf-a5c8-218938623676)
Saturday, 6 September i.e. Day 1 of Recovery (#ulink_dd9f41d5-0933-5e53-8e9b-780555c30bf7)
Editing Emma (The Secret Blog of A Nearly Proper Person) (#ulink_31f9d265-d6f1-517c-8112-fbd33c3626ca)
Sunday, 7 September
Monday, 8 September
Tuesday, 9 September
Wednesday, 10 September
Thursday, 11 September
Friday, 12 September
Saturday, 13 September
Sunday, 14 September
Monday, 15 September
Tuesday, 16 September
Wednesday, 17 September
Thursday, 18 September
Friday, 19 September
Saturday, 20 September
Sunday, 21 September
Monday, 22 September
Tuesday, 23 September
Wednesday, 24 September
Thursday, 25 September
Friday, 26 September
Saturday, 27 September
Sunday 28th September
Monday, 29 September
Tuesday, 30 September
Wednesday, 1 October
Thursday, 2 October
Friday 3rd October
Saturday, 4 October
Sunday, 5 October
Monday 6th October
Tuesday, 7 October
Wednesday, 8 October
Thursday 9th October
Friday, 10 October
Saturday, 11 October
Sunday, 12 October
Monday, 13 October
Tuesday, 14 October
Wednesday, 15 October
Thursday, 16 October
Friday, 17 October
Saturday, 18 October
Sunday, 19 October
Monday, 20 October
Tuesday, 21 October
Wednesday, 22 October
Thursday, 23 October
Friday, 24 October
Saturday, 25 October
Sunday, 26 October
Editing Emma
Acknowledgments
About the Publisher (#u1135eede-9c9f-5680-ae14-2c979137c475)
My Dingy Internet Cave Tuesday, 2 September i.e. Day 45 of Despair (#ulink_1ced9ac3-53e4-55e2-aa15-11b4e4732ff0)
posted by MissH 15.03
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
3 mins
Huh… That’s funny. Because I thought he was in a relationship with me.
posted by MissH 16.05
My phone rings. And rings. And rings. It’s Steph. Then Faith. Then Gracie. I know they mean well (except Gracie, who will be not-so-secretly enjoying this) but I really don’t want to speak to anyone. Maybe ever again. I will limit human contact to only when it’s strictly necessary, i.e. my mum when I need food. Maybe she’d even consider getting a little hatch put in my bedroom door.
posted by MissH 17.14
Staring at the status as it gets more and more comments and likes, becoming more and more real as I become more and more discarnate.
I guess that explains why he hasn’t spoken to me all summer, then. How could he do this? Am I not even worth a proper break-up? Was I that unimportant, that he can just act like I never existed? I wasn’t even made Facebook official. I didn’t even have the dignity of him ending our relationship in person or online before starting a new one. I have been left in the shadows, invisible and unacknowledged.
Has he been meeting up with her all this time? All this time I’ve been sending out deranged, thinly veiled tweets that are OBVIOUSLY about him? Or posting photos that say, ‘LOOK AT ME IN THIS REVEALING OUTFIT HAVING SO MUCH FUN. I’M COMPLETELY FINE WHO NEEDS YOU LALALA’, when really Steph had put me to bed by 7 pm sobbing in my heels. Through all of that, he’s been starting another relationship? For how long? I did see her on a group shot on that day out to Hyde Park, but I thought she knew one of his friends, or something.
posted by MissH 19.36
This is what the inside of my brain looks like:
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
Leon Naylor is in a relationship with Anna McDonnell.
