Upcoming events + ANZ release day for The Victors!

Just a quick one to let you know I’m doing a whole host of events this autumn!

WEST MIDLANDS//3rd September – Bookmark craft workshop at Kenilworth Books, 6.30pm – tickets here – see an example of the bookmarks you can make here!

DERBYSHIRE//19th September – Poetry reading sessions at the Queen’s Reading Room festival, Chatsworth – info here (sessions run at 11.45pm and 3.15pm)

NEWCASTLE//27th September – Once Upon A Tyne fantasy book festival – Panels: Sat at 4pm – No Straight Roads To Happily Ever After + Sun at 12pm – The Kissing Booth: From Wattpad to World Wide

STROUD//9th Oct – Graphic novel workshop at Brimscombe Mill Kids Book Fest – 18:30pm at Brimscombe Mill, Stroud – tickets here

LONDON//1st Nov – Panel and signing at YALC – tickets – Sun 12pm ‘Sequential art, sensational stories panel with Anna Penn, Dom&Ink, Salomey Doku & Sam Prentice-Jones

HARROGATE//15th Nov – In Conversation with Alice Oseman panel and signing at Thoughtbubble Comic Festival – tickets

It’s also release week for The Victors in Australia and New Zealand, so I wanted to share some of my favourite spreads from the book. All art is by the incredible Beth Fuller.

ANZ Preorder links:

Amazon AU Angus and Robertson Booktopia Dymocks QBD

The Nile Mighty Ape The Nile Paper Plus The Warehouse Whitcoulls

See more on my Instagram!

I’m also still posting a short story over on my Patreon weekly – currently up to chapter 9 of 13 if you want to jump in before the finale!

-wren

Published by Wren James

Wren James is the award-winning British author of eleven science fiction & fantasy novels, including The Quiet at the End of the World and The Next Together (previously published as Lauren James). Their books have sold over 200,000 copies in ten languages, and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe was optioned for film by Amazon MGM. Wren is a story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper, which was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. Also a RLF Royal Fellow, Wren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability steering Committee. They work as a consultant on climate storytelling with a focus on providing optimism and hope. They have won the Sustainable Story Award and been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize, Carnegie Medal and STEAM Book Award. Wren’s writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly. Their latest titles are Last Seen Online, a crime thriller set in the world of fandom, and The Victors, a cosy fantasy graphic novel illustrated by Beth Fuller. Wren was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where they studied Chemistry and Physics. They run a Queer Writers group in Coventry. Follow them on Instagram & TikTok at @wrenjameswriter or find out more at wrenjames.co.uk. View more posts