Beth Reekles
BornBeth Reeks[1]
(1995-06-07) 7 June 1995
Newport, Wales
Alma materExeter University
Notable works
  • The Kissing Booth (2012)
  • Rolling Dice (2013)
  • Out of Tune (2014)
  • The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance (2020)
Website
www.authorbethreekles.com

Beth Reekles (pen name of Beth Reeks, born 7 June 1995) is a Welsh author of young adult fiction.

Biography

Beth Reekles was born on 7 June 1995[note 1] and grew up in Newport, Wales where she attended local primary school Mount Pleasant Primary and comprehensive Bassaleg School.[4] She graduated from Exeter University with a degree in physics.[5]

When Reekles was 15, having grown tired of stories of "vampires and werewolves", she wrote her first young adult novel, The Kissing Booth, publishing it chapter by chapter on Wattpad, a story sharing site.[4][6][7] The novel was immensely popular, winning the Wattpad 2011 prize for Most Popular Teen Fiction,[1] and when she was 17, she was offered a three-book contract by Penguin Random House.[8][9] The Kissing Booth was published by Penguin Random House in 2012, followed by Rolling Dice and Out of Tune.[10][11] A year later, she was named by Time magazine as one of "The 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013".[12][13] She was named in The Times as one of the "Top 25 under 20 The new icons of a generation" in 2014.[14]

The Kissing Booth was adapted for film, also titled The Kissing Booth, which premiered on Netflix in 2018.[6] A sequel The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance was published in 2020 and a film adaptation, The Kissing Booth 2, premiered on Netflix the same year.[15] A third film The Kissing Booth 3: One Last Time accompanied by a book was released on 11 August 2021.[16] Reekles's first adult novel, Love, Locked Down, was published by Sphere Books in February 2022.[17]

Major works

  • The Kissing Booth (2012)
  • Rolling Dice (2013)
  • Out of Tune (2014)
  • The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance (2020)
  • The Kissing Booth 3: One Last Time (2021)
  • Love, Locked Down (2022)
  • Seven Days of You (2022)

Notes

  1. ↑ Beth Reekles confirmed her birthday to be 7 June in a tweet of 7 June 2018.[2] Separately, in a blog post, she confirmed that she was 25 in 2020.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Gibson, Megan (19 March 2013). "Book Publishing's Latest Success Still Has to Do Her Homework Every Night". Time. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  2. ↑ Reekles, Beth [@Reekles] (7 June 2018). "happiest of birthdays to my OTP of BFFs, Lee and Elle!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ↑ Reekles, Beth (June 2020). "Vlog: Thoughts on turning 25 and 10 years of being a writer". Beth Reekles Author, blogger, popcorn lover. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 "The Kissing Booth: How a Newport teen author inspired Netflix". BBC News. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  5. ↑ Westbrook, Caroline (24 May 2018). "Who is The Kissing Booth's author Beth Reekles and is she in the film?". METRO. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Beth Reekles' The Kissing Booth now a Netflix film". BBC News. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  7. ↑ Vincent, Alice (31 July 2018). "The Welsh teenager who wrote a hit film: how Kissing Booth author Beth Reekles conquered Netflix". The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  8. ↑ Lodge, Sally (3 April 2013). "Random House Acquires Novel by Teen Wattpad Star". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  9. ↑ Davies, Andy (21 April 2013). "Teen author Beth Reeks on her major book deal". Channel 4 News. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  10. ↑ Mallenbaum, Carly (27 July 2020). "'Kissing Booth 2': Meet Beth Reekles, the young author behind the popular Netflix rom-coms". USA Today. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  11. ↑ Rao, Sonia (13 July 2018). "How 'The Kissing Booth' went from a teenager's passion project to a Netflix sensation". The Washington Post. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  12. ↑ "The 16 Most Influential Teens of 2013 | Beth Reekles, 17". Time. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  13. ↑ Morris, Steven (25 November 2013). "Welsh author Beth Reekles named on list of world's most influential teenagers". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  14. ↑ "Top 25 under 20 | The new icons of a generation". The Times. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  15. ↑ Weston, Christopher (24 July 2020). "The Kissing Booth 2 book ending explained: Netflix adaptation finally here". HITC. GRV Media. Retrieved 18 August 2020. As you'll be aware, the latest film is an adaptation of the novel The Kissing Booth 2: Going the Distance, written by Beth Reekles.
  16. ↑ Boucher, Brooke (11 August 2021). "Beth Reekles The Kissing Booth 3 released on Netflix". South Wales Argus. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
  17. ↑ Hackett, Tamsin (21 April 2021). "Sphere acquires lockdown love story from Reekles". The Bookseller. Retrieved 20 May 2021. Beth's novel Faking It was published on 2 February 2023
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