by Laura Watkinson | Oct 30, 2014 | Blog
Pushkin Children’s Books released this beautiful cover for the new winter edition of The Letter for the King today. Silvery, shiny and snowy, it’s perfect for the winter months. Such a stunning design! Excitingly, The Letter for the King has also recently...
by Laura Watkinson | Dec 31, 2013 | Blog
To round off 2013, there have been a couple of lovely articles about Tonke Dragt and The Letter for the King. Philip Womack wrote in Friday’s Guardian that “Tiuri’s search is gripping, delightful and true”. Meanwhile, over on the Dutch side of...
by Laura Watkinson | Nov 26, 2013 | Blog
Thanks very much to Rick and the team at the American Book Center in Amsterdam for providing such a great location for the Dutch launch of The Letter of the King on Saturday. I teamed up with translator David Colmer to give a short presentation of some Dutch...
by Laura Watkinson | Nov 5, 2013 | Blog
No, not the excellent game for the Sega Mega Drive, but the most excellent World Fantasy Con 2013, which was held this year in Brighton. I’ve been going to British Fantasy Con for years, but World Fantasy Con is its very big sister, with over a thousand writers,...
by Laura Watkinson | Oct 17, 2013 | Blog
Pushkin Press sent me a very exciting parcel this week, hot off the press. A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril… Yes, it’s Tonke Dragt’s The Letter for the King. Originally published by Uitgeverij Leopold in 1962, this book is a...
