Kirsten was hired to write and deliver an entertaining speech to the European conference of Round Square. Go “Behind the Scenes” to read the speech she gave along with “The Costa Rican Shower Scene” from her second book, Fork.

After these readings, she had an active discussion with the delegates and gave readings of excerpts from her first book, which you can read on the Lost in Moscow page.

On June 13th Kirsten was invited for brunch with a Toronto book club that was discussing “Lost in Moscow”. One of the club members asked the interesting group of professionals to show a survey of hands to see how many people drew pubic hair on their Barbie dolls or action figures, like Kirsten did when she was a kid, and every hand went up.

On May 21, Kirsten was invited to return to Princess Margaret School, in Orangeville, to talk to the grade eights about travel writing. The school’s librarian said that she had an author visit the school recently who sung their book and wondered if Kirsten might be able to do that with Lost in Moscow. Kirsten responded that she’d sing it in Klingon — all 300 pages of it. (The librarian was joking about Kirsten singing — but not about the other author singing…)

A book club in Brampton, Ontario, invited Kirsten to join them for wine, snacks, and, oh yes, to talk about her book Lost in Moscow.

The group members really enjoyed coming across local references in the book — like when Kirsten puked at the Brampton Fall Fair.