For someone like me, social media is a scary and unpredictable place. As much as I love being a reasonably well-known author, I don’t really want to be a well-known person. That is, I don’t want to share most of the non-fiction of my life. In fact the idea is slightly terrifying. I make characters … More The Perils of Flying While Female

In case I forgot to mention it, I’m currently a nominee for a White Pine Award for my verse novel, AUDACIOUS. So I’m hitting the road again, this time to Toronto, Ontario. I’ll be giving a workshop in the Festival of Trees on May 12th and I’ll be visiting two Toronto Public Library Branches on May 13th: Maria Schukha … More Gabrielle’s Travelling Road Show: Part 2

Readers, I’m hitting the road tomorrow and it just occurred to me to let you know. As some of you may have heard, I was recently nominated for a BC Book Prize – The Sheila A. Egoff Prize for Children’s Literature. The nominated book is CAPRICIOUS and in all sincerity I am humbled and honored. … More Gabrielle Prendergast – The Travelling Road Show

This blog post is a perfectly understandable reaction to the fact that no one has been paying much attention to me lately. I don’t mean my family and friends and people that I should actually expect to pay attention to me, I mean the world. I mean everyone. Everyone stop what you’re doing and look … More I Am Everything and Everyone That Matters Right Now

I love giving workshops and seminars, especially to teens and children. Today I got an envelope full of thank you cards from a recent visit to a grade nine class. Here are some of the gems: “I learned how hard and how much effort goes into making a book” “Thank you for coming in and talking … More Feedback Time

It’s Banned Books Week again! I LOVE Banned Books Week! it’s better than Halloween! Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of … More Banned Books Week Giveaway Hop – AUDACIOUS

Readers, my fifteen minutes is here. No less than TWO newspaper features (no more, either. It was just the two) this last month have launched me into the public imagination (probably not, but it sounds good). Anyway, my duties as writer in residence for Vancouver Public Library include three public readings this September.  If you’d … More Meet Gabrielle this September

This Tumblr post resonated with me particularly strongly with me today, given the week I’ve had. The general gist of it was Malinda Lo responding to comments expressing a wish that “*bestselling author*” would include POC/LGBT characters in their books, by suggesting to the commenters that they read other authors who do. On the face … More What Color is Your Caterpillar?

I’ve been absent from this blog for some time. Busy with writing and working, I haven’t had much time to rant about the usual things that make me ranty. Also it seems these days that there are just SO MANY rant making things going on in the world. How is a ranter to choose? So … More MY BIG NEWS

In case you haven’t heard, I have a new book out this month. CAPRICIOUS is the sequel to the verse novel AUDACIOUS, which came out last year to rave reviews (if I do say so myself!). To celebrate my verse novel duology I’m giving away three copies of CAPRICIOUS and one copy of AUDACIOUS as part of the April New Release Giveaway Hop hosted by … More April New Release Giveaway Hop – AUDACIOUS AND CAPRICIOUS