Estelle Maskame (born 18 June 1997) is a Scottish writer of young adult fiction.
Early life
Maskame grew up in Peterhead, Scotland and attended Peterhead Academy.
She was writing full-length novels by the age of 11, and when she was 13 started posting her work online. She published Did I Mention I Love You? (DIMILY) on Wattpad and promoted it on Twitter; it had over 4 million hits.
Writing career
Maskame's first novel, Did I Mention I Love You? (DIMILY), was published by Black & White Publishing in 2015 when she was aged 17. It was followed by Did I Mention I Need You? (2015), Did I Mention I Miss You? (2016), and Just Don't Mention It (2018), then Did I Mention it's 10 Years Later? (2019) on the tenth anniversary of the first (online) publication. She wrote two stand-alone novels, Dare to Fall (2017) and The Wrong Side of Kai (2019), before her Mila Trilogy of Becoming Mila, Trusting Blake, and The Making of Mila and Blake.
The DIMILY series has sold over 1.5 million copies and rights to its translations have been sold to 19 territories.
Maskame's first new adult novel, Somewhere in the Sunset, is to be published in April 2024.
Awards
Maskame won the 2016 Arts award of the Young Scot Awards and was shortlisted for the Romantic Young Adult Novel of the Year Award.
The Young Women's Movement named her as one of its "30 under 30" in 2016: this annual list comprises "30 women & non-binary people in Scotland, making changes in their community or wider society".
Publications
Standalone novels
DIMILY series
The Mila trilogy
References
External links
1990s births
Living people
Scottish novelists
Scottish women novelists
Women writers of young adult literature
British writers of young adult literature
People from Peterhead
Year of birth missing (living people)