Represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 12:46PM 
As you know, I don't do many public appearances these days. However, On Saturday, November 5th, I'm going to be giving a talk on the YA fiction market at the Ventura County Book & Author Fair in Camarillo.
If you live in the area, I hope you'll come by!
For more info, click on the flyer to the left.
Thanks, and hope to see you there!
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 8:58AM 
Think of this blog post, please, as an open letter to my adult readers here in the US.
I'll start with the short version: I'm back.
Now to go into a little more detail.
You have been amazingly patient. The last expressly adult (this does not mean pornographic--I hope you know that) title I released here in the U.S. was Chasing Windmills in the Spring of 2008. Three and a half years ago. Furthermore, Love in the Present Tense and Chasing Windmills followed another long dry spell in which I didn't put out a new book from 2002 to 2006. And then when I did, it was Young Adult.
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 7:52PM 
Nevada Fall from the John Muir TrailSecond time's a charm. The weather cooperated beautifully as I left Upper Pines Campground at 6:00 a.m. (by headlamp and a full moon), hiked up to Vernal Fall footbridge, took the John Muir Trail up to the Panorama Trail, the Panorama Trail over Illouette Creek (and the outlook over Illouette Fall). Halfway between Illouette and Glacier Point, I still had not seen one other human. Then they began to pass me. Walking down. No one else was walking up. They all asked if I had hiked up from the valley. One man, when I said yes, said--in heavily accented but perfect English--"Then you are my hero."
My speed was anything but heroic, but no one seemed to care. Including me. Getting
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 11:33AM 
This is not the first time my hiking/travel adventures have required a bit of a do-over. Those who have followed this blog for a long time may remember The Great Crater Lake Do-Over. I took my mom and my dog and myself to Crater Lake just in time to run into a fierce wildfire nearby. We did go to the lake--we had to. The road out again went
Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 10:11AM 
Things are moving fast now. My novel Don't Let Me Go was released in the UK on the 29th of September, and the next one, When You Were Older, will be out in the spring. And I just handed in another for 2013, but that's another subject for another blog post.
Now, I have to stop here and inject a message to my US readers. Yes, I understand there was a time when all these UK releases may have felt a little frustrating. But now these titles are coming out fast in the US. Second Hand Heart is already out and When I Found You will be out this month. So we're catching up fast.
Today I have the pleasure of doing a cover reveal for next spring's When You Were Older release. It's the first of my UK novels
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 10:44AM
Updated on Saturday, October 8, 2011 at 7:45PM by
Catherine
Those of you who come to this site regularly know I like to give away books. And I particularly like to give away, to my US readers, books that are only available in the UK so far. But notice how that number is shrinking! Second Hand Heart is now available in a US edition. When I Found You will come out in the US this month.
But not this one, on the left. Not yet. This is my brand new Don't Let Me Go. It came out in the UK last Thursday. So it's not available in the US now. Except the ones I'm about to give away on this blog!
Here's where the "plus" comes in. I have a friend and former writing student (but she's no student now--she made it!) named Joan Swan, who did a giveaway for three
