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42-764: The foundation programs included the William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel ; the Ibero-American Award ; a scholarship for first-year University of Virginia undergraduates showing talent in creative writing; scholarships for African-Americans from Mississippi seeking higher education; and monetary gifts to a Boy Scouts of America "Negro summer camp" in Mississippi. The fund's assets derived primarily from Faulkner's Nobel Prize for Literature , and in later years, an "Associates" group contributed further funds. Faulkner also donated to

84-526: A "digital detox" campaign. With a "Digital Detox Day" on 5 September 2020, the campaign was created to "raise the issue of negative effects that social media can have on mental health" and "encourage users to build a healthier relationship with these platforms and their devices". As part of the partnership, Sugg created a bath bomb with Lush, which will aid global grassroot groups to secure grants that will focus on mental health. In October, she and Deyes were announced as "ambassadors" promoting A Good Company,

126-470: A 12-door £50 advent calendar , with the "extortionate price" and alleged poor quality receiving attention. The calendar contained items such as a small pack of confetti, a packet of seven stickers, and cookie cutters. A spokesperson for Sugg said, "Zoe is incredibly proud of the Christmas collection and excited to see it in store. However, the pricing and in-store promotional strategy of the collection, including

168-407: A 15-year-old anonymous blogger and what happens when her blog goes viral . While based around her similar experiences, Sugg has stated that the book is "in no way autobiographical ". The novel achieved the highest first-week sales for a debut author since Nielsen BookScan began compiling such records in 1998, with 78,109 copies. As of December 2014 , it was the fastest selling book of

210-453: A maker of household products. On 29 October 2020, The Magpie Society: One for Sorrow , a young adult fiction novel she co-authored with Amy McCulloch, was released. The book details events at an elite boarding school from the points of view of two girls – Ivy, written by Sugg, and Audrey, written by McCulloch. It was stated by Sugg that the book would act as the first of a series, with a sequel titled The Magpie Society: Two for Joy which

252-506: A mobile photography app that she co-developed with Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman. Later that year, she announced Template, another mobile editing app designed for editing Instagram stories . In August 2020, Sugg collaborated on a homeware range with Etsy , featuring products co-curated by herself and independent Etsy sellers. Also in August 2020, she partnered with mental health awareness organisation #IAmWhole and cosmetics retailer Lush on

294-406: A number of UK newspapers. In September 2015, Madame Tussauds announced that they had placed wax figures of Sugg and Deyes on display in their London-based museum. In late 2016, Sugg and brother Joe released a range of branded merchandise called 'Sugg Life', created in collaboration with The Creator Store, a company owned by Alfie Deyes and Dominic Smales of Gleam Futures. The term 'Sugg Life'

336-662: A previous published reputation, such as publication in nonfiction, magazines, or literary journals , typically struggle to find a publisher. Sometimes new novelists will self-publish their debut novels, because publishing houses will not risk the capital needed to market books by an unknown author to the public. Most publishers purchase rights to novels, especially debut novels, through literary agents , who screen client work before sending it to publishers. These hurdles to publishing reflect both publishers' limits in resources for reviewing and publishing unknown works, and that readers typically buy more books from established authors with

378-520: A range of complementary homeware products, with a 2019 report stating that the two businesses had a combined revenue of £3.8 million per year. Her debut novel , Girl Online , was published in November 2014 and broke the record for highest first-week sales of a first-time novelist. She has since released two sequels and a non-fiction book, Cordially Invited , and later co-wrote the book duology The Magpie Society with Amy McCulloch. Zoë Elizabeth Sugg

420-469: A reputation than from first-time writers. For this reason, literary communities have created awards that help acknowledge exceptional debut novels. In contemporary British and American publishing markets, most authors receive only a small monetary advance before publication of their debut novel; in the rare exceptions when a large print run and high volume of sales are anticipated, the advance can be larger. For an example of an unusually high advance: in 2013,

462-524: Is a play on 'Thug life', a phrase popularised by Tupac Shakur 's 1990s hip hop group of the same name and more recently an internet meme . The online shop offered a range of products such as hoodies , stickers and phone cases. In August 2017, The Creator Store opened a pop-up shop in Covent Garden which, for ten days, sold limited edition 'Sugg Life X PB' merchandise; a collaboration of Sugg Life and Deyes' ' Pointless Blog ' brands. As of May 2018,

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504-408: Is the year the award was made, for a book published the year prior. 1962 Debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry , and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future. First-time novelists without

546-610: The Oxford English Dictionary , the earliest attested usage of "first novel" is from 1876. However, the term is much older, with instances going back to at least 1800. The Oxford English Dictionary does not have an entry for "debut novel". The earliest usage of "debut novel" in the Google Books database is 1930 (as of 2011 ). The term appears in newspapers as early as 1922, in a review of Marjorie L.C. Pickthall 's novel The Bridge . The Google Books Ngram Viewer shows

588-655: The Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa . The single debuted at No.1 on the UK Official Singles Chart . Sugg also took part in the 2015 Comic Relief edition of The Great British Bake Off . A sequel to Girl Online , titled Girl Online: On Tour , was released on 20 October 2015. A third book, Girl Online: Going Solo , was published on 17 November 2016. Sugg's books, alongside those by other YouTubers , were criticised in 2017 for 'not being challenging enough' in

630-455: The 2011 Cosmopolitan Blog Award in the "Best Established Beauty Blog" category and went on to win the "Best Beauty Vlogger" award the following year. She was also awarded the 2013 and 2014 "Best British Vlogger" award at the Radio 1 Teen Awards; the 2014 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for "UK Favourite Vlogger"; and the 2014 Teen Choice Award for "Choice Web Star: Fashion/Beauty". Sugg

672-541: The Philosopher's Stone , only receive small initial print runs. Debut novels that do well will be reprinted as sales increase due to word of mouth popularity of the novels—publishers do not often run large marketing campaigns for debut novelists. There are numerous literary prizes for debut novels often associated with genre or nationality. These prizes are in recognition of the difficulties faced by debut novelists and bring attention to deserving works and authors. Some of

714-700: The Pickwick Club (1837), all of which lack the complexity or stylistic characteristics which audiences praise in the authors' later work. There are however some debut novels that are regarded as the author's masterpiece , for example Gustave Flaubert 's Madame Bovary , Joseph Heller 's Catch 22 , Günter Grass ' The Tin Drum and Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart . Sometimes, instead of writing novels to begin their career, some authors will start with short stories , which can be easier to publish and allow authors to get started in writing fiction. According to

756-632: The Sugg Life online shop is no longer active. Sugg and Deyes are directors of A to Z Creatives and A to Z Merchandise, a Brighton-based brand agency, which they founded in 2018. They are also directors of Crew Live Limited (the company responsible for YouTube convention Hello World) alongside fellow YouTubers Tanya Burr , Marcus Butler , Jim Chapman , Caspar Lee , Louise Pentland , Niomi Smart, Joe Sugg , and Gleam Futures CEO Dominic Smales. Sugg's non-fiction book, Cordially Invited , offering advice on entertaining guests at home and planning celebrations,

798-531: The author gains a literary reputation. There are exceptions, however; YouTuber Zoella published her debut novel Girl Online in November 2014, and the book sold 78,109 copies in Britain in its first week. The novel saw huge sales because she already had an established audience, and publishers were willing to run a large print run. By comparison, bestselling Fifty Shades of Grey sold 14,814 copies in its first week, or later popular novels, like Harry Potter and

840-471: The author's typical literary characteristics . Huffington Post ' s Dave Astor attributes these to two forces: first that authors are still learning their own unique style and audiences are more willing to read works from unknown authors if they resemble more conventional styles of literature. As examples, Astor points to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937), Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman (1969) and Charles Dickens' The Posthumous Papers of

882-464: The award to ameliorate the situation. The award was originally intended to support young writers, but the eligibility age was abolished soon after the project was undertaken; the only requirement was that the novel had to have been published after World War II. It was judged by individuals from across Latin America, and the winning novel was to be translated into English at Foundation expense. The date shown

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924-414: The calendar, is at the control of third parties and is not set by Zoe." Also in November 2017, Sugg apologised following controversy surrounding posts she had made on social media between 2009 and 2012 mocking gay people and "fat chavs ". She responded on Twitter , claiming the posts had been "taken out of context" and writing, "I'm sorry if I have offended anyone, that was not my intention." Sugg won

966-447: The end of the year it had a thousand followers and as of September 2015 it had received over 540 million total visits. The fashion, beauty and lifestyle blog expanded into a YouTube channel in 2009, while Sugg was working for British clothing retailer New Look . Sugg's main channel, Zoella, first named "zoella280390" after her birth date, is mostly fashion, beauty hauls, and "favourites" videos (showing her favourite products of

1008-518: The excitement of finding authors and writers without established legacies. In the same piece for the Times , Ayana Mathis describes the debut novel as "a piece of the writer's soul in a way that subsequent books can't ever be", because the novel is necessarily a work of passion and a product of all of their life before that moment. Often an author's first novel will not be as complex stylistically or thematically as subsequent works and often will not feature

1050-532: The foundation, over several stages, all of the manuscripts that he had placed on deposit for safekeeping at the University of Virginia library. In 1968, Harold Ober Associates donated to the foundation "certain original records of William Faulkner." Founding members of the foundation included William Faulkner, Linton R. Massey Jr., Faulkner's daughter Jill Faulkner Summers and her husband, Paul Summers Jr. After Faulkner's death in 1962, his widow Estelle Faulkner joined

1092-514: The foundation. The foundation was dissolved in 1970 and all its assets conveyed to the University of Virginia because of a failure of will on the part of the university, which tired of the obligation to award the prizes, and sued in order to divert the assets of the foundation to the university library. The original intent of the foundation's two literary awards was to support young writers. The William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel

1134-403: The highly anticipated City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg captured the attention of ten publishers who started a bidding war that ended with Knopf buying the rights to the book for 2 million dollars. The book's film production rights were purchased soon after by producer Scott Rudin . For similar reasons that advances are frequently not very large—novels frequently do not sell well until

1176-805: The more prestigious awards around the world include the American Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award , the French Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman , the British Guardian First Book Award , the German Aspekte-Literaturpreis and the Japanese Noma Literary Prize . The New York Times commentator Leslie Jamison described the big, and often very public, "to do" about debut novels and novelists created by these book awards, as associated with

1218-595: The newly launched youth service. The following year, she was named as the first "digital ambassador" for Mind , the mental health charity. Sugg launched a range of beauty products under the brand name Zoella Beauty in September 2014. The "bath and beauty" range launch was, according to the Metro , the "biggest beauty launch of the year". The products were developed and manufactured by Gloucestershire-based family-owned company SLG Allstars Ltd. She launched an edition of

1260-556: The previous month). Her second channel, MoreZoella, contains mostly vlogs where she shows her viewers what she does in her day. She is a member of the Style Haul network and is represented by Dominic Smales at Gleam Futures. In 2013, Sugg was mentioned by The Telegraph as one of "Britain's most influential Tweeters". In 2013, she was named as one of the National Citizen Service 's ambassadors, helping to promote

1302-467: The products called "Tutti Fruity" in 2015, as well as a limited Christmas edition. Sugg has been a director of ZS Beauty Ltd, a wholesaler of perfume and cosmetics, since 2016. In 2016, Sugg launched an edition called "Sweet Inspirations", followed by other ranges including "Jelly & Gelato", "Splash Botanics" and "Fruit Medley". In September 2016, Sugg released a collection of homeware products, including stationery, candles and reed diffusers. This range

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1344-421: The term becoming more widely used after about 1980, gaining in popularity since. Zoella Zoë Elizabeth Sugg (born 28 March 1990), also known by her online name Zoella , is an English media personality, entrepreneur and author. She began her career as a YouTuber in 2009 and has since amassed over 10 million subscribers. In 2014, Sugg launched her Zoella Beauty range of cosmetics and later launched

1386-409: The year. Penguin stated that "Sugg did not write Girl Online on her own", stating that she had "worked with an expert editorial team to help her bring to life her characters and experiences in a heartwarming and compelling story". It was reported that young-adult novelist Siobhan Curham was a ghostwriter for the novel, although neither Penguin nor Sugg confirmed this; Penguin stated that Curham

1428-428: Was "by far the project that earns me the most money out of anything I do". Sugg explained that she and SLG didn't agree on certain decisions, that producing more ranges beyond 2019 "didn't feel right", and she has a "new vision". The Zoella Beauty and Zoella Lifestyle products were discontinued in 2020. In October 2019, it was reported that the two businesses had a yearly revenue of £3.8 million. In June 2014, Sugg

1470-507: Was a guest panellist on the daytime chat show Loose Women . She also appeared on This Morning in July 2014 to talk about social anxiety . In 2014, Sugg signed a two-book deal with Penguin Books . The North American publishing rights were purchased by Atria . Sugg's debut novel, Girl Online , was released on 25 November 2014. The book is aimed at a young adult audience and surrounds

1512-538: Was an editorial consultant for the novel. Sugg, along with The Slow Mo Guys and Vice News , featured in television, print, and billboard advertisements by YouTube in the UK which ran from 25 September 2014. The prime time TV adverts were broadcast on the three terrestrial UK channels. Sugg then featured on the 2014 single " Do They Know It's Christmas? " as part of the Band Aid 30 charity supergroup , raising money for

1554-572: Was born in Lacock , Wiltshire, on 28 March 1990. She has a younger brother, Joe Sugg , who is also a YouTuber. She attended The Corsham School in nearby Corsham . She earned A-levels in art, photography, and textiles, but did not attend university due to her anxiety disorder and not knowing what she wanted to do later in life. Sugg was working as an apprentice at an interior design company when she created her blog, "Zoella", in February 2009. By

1596-498: Was exclusive to Boots . Each year subsequently, Sugg released a new collection of limited edition items under the Zoella Lifestyle brand, distributed by many UK retailers including Boots, Superdrug , WHSmith , Dunelm , House of Fraser and FeelUnique. Sugg has been a director of ZS Lifestyle Ltd since 2016. In March 2019, Sugg stated in her vlog that she had decided not to renew her licensing agreement with SLG, adding that it

1638-524: Was judged by young faculty at the University of Virginia because "Faulkner felt that young persons can best understand and judge young writers.". The other award, The Ibero-American award, was inspired by Faulkner's visit to Venezuela in 1961, which he had made as part of a cultural diplomacy effort to improve U.S.-Venezuelan relations. Faulkner realized on the trip how many excellent novels by young Latin American writers were not translated into English and wanted

1680-587: Was listed as one of The Telegraph's "40 best beauty bloggers" in September 2014, and "Queen of the Haul" by British Vogue in November. Hers was the fourth most popular channel in the UK in 2014. She was included in the 2015 Debrett's 500 , listing the most influential people in Britain, under the New Media category. In 2015 she was named as the "Most Inspirational Women of the Decade" in technology by Grazia and she

1722-454: Was published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 2018. In December 2018, Sugg appeared on Happy Place , a podcast presented by Fearne Cotton , and discussed her career, anxiety and her thoughts on social media. In February 2019, it was announced that Sugg had worked on a limited edition makeup range with ColourPop Cosmetics , based on 70s fashion . In April 2019, Sugg announced Filmm,

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1764-523: Was released in 2021. Sugg has been in a relationship with vlogger Alfie Deyes since October 2012. They made their relationship public in a blog post by Sugg in August 2013. They became engaged in September 2023. They had their first daughter in August 2021, and their second daughter in December 2023. The family reside in Brighton . Sugg attracted criticism from the media in November 2017 after releasing

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