What’s Past is Prologue
Bloomsbury, Waterstones, and the Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust are collaborating in a Scotland-based launch of The Pearl Thief with an event at the Perth Museum on Thursday 18 May 2017. Together with Jess Smith, storyteller and outstanding advocate for the Traveller community in…
There are some interesting posts and reviews up this week on The Pearl Thief, in celebration of its release. Some of them are written by readers I know well, some by well-respected reviewers, and some by me as a guest…
I’m doing a speedy and sweeping race across the USA to coincide with Disney Hyperion’s release of The Pearl Thief on 2 May 2017. Here are the scheduled events so far: Tuesday, 2 May 2017, 7 p.m.: Politics & Prose,…
Rose Under Fire has been chosen as Central Pennsylvania’s One Book, One Community read across a 6-county area including over 80 libraries. I’m incredibly excited and honored that my book’s been chosen, and I’ll be speaking at a couple of local…
Thursday, 27 October 2016: 11.00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. I’ll be on the author team at the West Scotland Heat of the Kids Lit Quiz again, held at Our Lady’s High School in Cumbernauld, Scotland. Last year’s winners of this heat, Hamilton…
Saturday, 8 October 2016: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Children’s Africana Book Awards Festival, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC. Black Dove, White Raven is one of the honored books in the teen category. You can learn more about the Children’s Africana…
13 and 17 August 2016, 11 am: Dinosaur:The Musical is a play written for young people by my daughter, Sara Gatland. It will be performed at the Mt. Gretna Playhouse in Mt. Gretna, Pennsylvania, as part of their Theater for Young Audiences program this…
21 April 2016: Yay YA is Scotland’s new book festival for YA fiction, taking place at the Cumbernauld Theatre in Cumbernauld from 10.00 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. Join me with organizer Kirkland Ciccone and Victoria Gemmell, Roy Gill Alex ‘Scald’…
I’ll be in Charleston, SC for YALLFest, 13-14 November 2015, and then in Minneapolis, MN for the NCTE Annual Convention, 19-22 November 2015. Please check the website links for more information about these events!
I’ll be appearing at the Kristianstad Bokfestival on Friday, 3 Sept. 2015, at 3.30 p.m. in the festival Little Hall in Kristianstad, Sweden. I’ll be speaking about Code Name Verity, which is available in a beautiful Swedish edition – I’ll be speaking in…