Authors & Events
Q&A with Scorpion author Christian Cantrell
28 May 2021
Christian Cantrell is a software engineer living outside of Washington, D.C. His self-published fiction has sold more than a quarter of a million copies, and three of his stories have been optioned for film or TV. Beyond his writing, he leads a team of designers and engineers who prototype the future of creativity at Adobe.
In this Q&...
In Conversation with Limerence Author Vincent Pienaar
25 May 2021
Just like Vincent Pienaar’s novel Too Many Tsunamis, Limerence is a warm-hearted and funny tale. The Penguin Post spoke with Vincent about getting limerenced, dark humour and the person who inspired the scoundrel Scout.
PP: Where did you first get to know the word ‘limerence’?
VP: By sheer...
One Minute with Daisy Jones & The Six author Taylor Jenkins Reid
25 May 2021
Jenkins Reid’s new novel, Malibu Rising has the same evocative sense of period and place, combined with a fantastically flawed and relatable heroine, that made her 2019 novel, Daisy Jones & The Six a bestseller. Here, she chats about ‘80s music, her love for Malibu and the enigmatic Riva family.
Q. There’s a distinct...
Life-changing ideas from some of the world's most inspiring writers right now
05 May 2021
From Michelle Obama and The Boy, the Mole the Fox and the Horse author, Charles Mackesy to James Clear and The Choice author, Edith Eger.
In Conversation with The Martian author Andy Weir
04 May 2021
Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. The Penguin Post spoke with him about being a lifelong space nerd, a devoted hobbyist of relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned...