Last year I was forced to launch my book digitally. I really wanted to have the experience of a live book launch in a shop, but I actually enjoyed myself. Putting together a set of clips, turning my ideas into something visual, structuring a small film...well, I enjoyed it. So I'm doing it again. On… Continue reading Adventures Close To Home!
This week is Christmas for authors, really. I've been stuck in my house seething at the Covid-19 lockdown that's keeping its heel on our throats, but still trying to keep busy. A few weeks ago I had my live digital launch, which mostly went rather well, if you ignore the bit at the start where… Continue reading Book Week Scotland!
After months of delays due to Covid-19, my first novel for adults is finally out. Happiness Is Wasted On Me is a book I wanted to write, but more than that...it's a book I needed to write. Somehow, it just happened. Now it's available to buy and order from bookshops on your high street and… Continue reading My new book is out today!
I can't launch Happiness Is Wasted On Me at a bookshop, sadly, but safety first and all that jazz. At the same time, I don't want to sit on a chair looking at a laptop with a nice background. I'm seeing it too much. It's boring. So... I've decided to do something a bit different… Continue reading The big book launch!
Nothing I write can do justice to the influence of this one building on my life, but my blog would have nothing on it if I didn't try, so here I go: I'm trying. Cumbernauld Theatre has always been there for me. A reassuring presence in the background, easily spotted from the window of the… Continue reading A Secret History Of Cumbernauld Theatre
A few months ago I was contacted by the nice people from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. They asked if I'd like to appear at a festival they had planned, an outreach programme called ReimagiNation. It would be about new towns and my name popped up. This is how the phone call went: EIBF: "Kirkland,… Continue reading ReimagiNation
