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American Wings Launch

Three inches of rain fell in Los Angeles the day I arrived to celebrate the launch of American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky. In American Wings, fellow YA author Sherri L. Smith…

Virtual Launch for STATELESS

Here’s a bit of a Virtual Book Tour for my new novel, Stateless, with videos and interviews that I’ve done to promote the book for its release in the USA and Canada on 14 March and in the UK on…

Verity Speaks

In honor of the tenth (TENTH!) anniversary of Code Name Verity’s release, there’s a new edition containing additional material – a short story, a retrospective essay, and author Q&A.I thought I’d celebrate here by revisiting this shout-out from a certain Scottish wireless…

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Launch Party for The Enigma Game!

Welcome to #TheEnigmaGame virtual launch party and giveaway!Published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books in the UK on 14 May 2020, and by Little Brown Books for Young Readers in the USA and Penguin Random House in Canada on 3 November 2020,The…

First time in Asia

It’s now two months since my return from China, and how proud my mother would have been that I went there on my own. I thought of her so much, and her obsession with Chinese culture and communism – I…

Remembrance

“I loved yesterday,” said Sara on 12 November, and she was talking about the Remembrance Day Service at Dunkeld Cathedral on 11 November 2018. In the UK, the Armistice is traditionally marked on the 11th, as it used to be…

Amphibious

Tim had an invitation from his instrument-flying instructor, Stewart Houston, to “mount in his hydroplane” (as Fitzgerald puts it in The Great Gatsby), and asked me if I wanted to come along. Well, of course I wanted to come along.…

CommuniTEEN in Portage, Michigan

Today I ground up the last of my Kalamazoo Coffee Company peaberry that was part of the Portage Library bag stuffed full of gifts which was waiting for me on my bed when I arrived in Michigan exactly four weeks…

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A Pearl Thief Tour by Rail

Because The Pearl Thief made its debut in the middle of exams last May, we’d postponed doing a school tour in the UK until September, and I’ve just returned from a sweeping visit of Northeast England and the Midlands – three…

Author Namedropping

SCOTLAND seems to be a hot tourist spot for writers on vacation this summer, and I am kind of stunned and flattered at the luminaries who have purposefully put “Connect with E Wein” on their itineraries. Or maybe the word…