Robin Stevens's Blog, page 46

July video – my favourite summer reads!

Hello Detectives! I hope you’re all enjoying your summer holidays – and if today was your last day, welcome to the fun!

I’ve uploaded my recommendation video for July to my YouTube channel, and this month it features some of the books I remember reading in my summer holidays. They’re all books that I know you’ll still love today – so if you wonder what to read next, why not try one of these?… Read more

Guggenheim Signing – London 5th August

My summer book-signing tour in honour of The Guggenheim Mystery is a go, and the first stop on it will be LONDON!

I will be at Waterstones Trafalgar Square (that’s the one on the Square itself, not the branches in Covent Garden or Piccadilly!) from 11am on Saturday the 5th of August.… Read more

Guggenheim Mystery News – Ted is Heading to New York!

When I was a kid, I really, really wanted to be published by Knopf.

Partly because it had an amazing name. Partly because it was based in New York, and that was cool. But mostly … because Knopf books had a dog on their spines, and the only things I love almost as much as books are dogs.… Read more

Welcome to Summer!

Happy holidays, Detectives!

I know most of you are out of school now (for those of you who aren’t, I am So Sorry. The end is coming soon, I promise!). I’ve done my last school visit of the year, so I feel a little bit like I’m on holiday too. All I have to do is hand in the third draft of Book 6 next week, and then I can properly relax!… Read more

Come meet me at the CBBC Summer Social!

Newsflash for all detectives in Manchester: the CBBC Summer Social is coming up this weekend! It’s full of exciting things to do, brillant TV stars to meet, AND super awesome authors including MG Leonard, Pamela Butchart and ME!

I’m going to be visiting on Saturday the 8th. I’ll do two events, one at 1pm in the Yurt and one at 3pm at the Quay.… Read more

Happy IBW 2017!

Happy Independent Bookshop Week, Detectives!

This is the week that was made for bookworms, the one where it is basically your DUTY to support your local independent bookstore by visiting them and buying loads of excellent books.

This year I was lucky enough to start off my IBW in style – lovely North London children’s bookstore Pickled Pepper invited me along for the afternoon to SERVE BEHIND THE TILL like a proper bookseller!… Read more

The Guggenheim Mystery is coming in Italian – and Spanish – and Dutch!

Happy Friday! I’ve got some great news to end the week: my book The Guggenheim Mystery (out in the UK and Ireland on 3rd August) has its first three foreign-language deals!

It has been sold in ITALY to Uovonero (who are already proving that they are lovely publishers with the below notice) …It has been sold in SPAIN to Editorial Editex, who are already Siobhan’s publishers for The London Eye Mystery …

And it has been sold in THE NETHERLANDS to Unieboek, who have already released their own version of David Dean’s gorgeous cover!… Read more

#AuthorsforGrenfell Auction – bid for me to Skype in to your school!

As you know, I can’t do as many school visits as I’d like to, because I need to keep enough time to write my books. I also usually keep my school visits within the UK and Ireland.

But this autumn term, one lucky school somewhere in the world will win the chance to have me Skype in to chat to students about my books, as part of a fundraising effort my friends and I are doing for the residents of Grenfell Tower.… Read more

Detective Society Newsletter & VOTE on Summer Bookshop Events!

Have you noticed the Newsletter page on my website yet? We’ve been working on it for a while, and now it’s finally ready – from June, we’re going to be sending out a newsletter every month to notify you about what’s going on with my books, and to give you exclusive access to super special stuff (among other things, we’re talking book extracts here!… Read more

Happy Empathy Day 2017!

Today is the first-ever Empathy Day in the UK!

Empathy Day is an idea from Empathy Lab, an absolutely brilliant organisation which aims to build empathy (the ability to understand how another person is feeling) through books and reading.

 

As readers, you all understand the way a book can transport you into a world unlike yours, and a mind and body quite different to your own.… Read more