Ransom Riggs at The Historic Artcraft Theatre

Join us on Tuesday, August, 27th at 6:30pm at The Historic Artcraft Theatre for an evening with internationally best-selling author Ransom Riggs in conversation with John Green. Ransom will discuss his new novel SUNDERWORLD, VOL. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry. A ticket includes entry to the event and a signed copy of the book.

If you will not be attending the event, please use this link to preorder your copy for pick up or shipping after the event

Tickets include the book in hardcover and admission to the event. Popcorn and drinks will be available for purchase. We anticipate this will be a sold-out show. A ticket is required to attend the event. 

We are pleased to provide accessibility accommodations for this event upon request. To arrange accommodations or request additional information about accommodations for this event please email hello@wildgeesebookshop.com

Publisher Guidelines:

There will not be a signing line or photo line for this event. All books included with your ticket will be pre-signed by the author.

Wild Geese Bookshop will have additional copies of Sunderland Vol. 1 and other titles from Ransom and John for sale on-site.

About the book:
Seventeen-year-old Leopold Berry is seeing weird things around Los Angeles. A man who pops a tooth into a parking meter. A glowing trapdoor in a parking lot. A half-mechanical raccoon with its tail on fire that just won’t leave him alone. Every hallucinatory moment seems plucked from a cheesy 1990s fantasy TV show called Max’s Adventures in Sunderworld—and that’s because they are. 

Not a good sign.

In the blurry weeks after his mother’s death, a young Leopold discovered VHS tapes of its one and only season in a box headed for the trash—and soon became obsessed. Losing himself in Sunder was the best way to avoid two things: grieving his mother and being a chronic disappointment to his overbearing father. But when the strange visions return—at the worst possible time on the worst possible day—Leopold turns to his best friend Emmet for help. Together they discover that Sunder is much more than just an old TV show, and that Los Angeles is far stranger than they ever imagined. And soon, he’ll realize that not only is Sunderworld real, but it’s in grave danger.

Certain he’s finally been chosen for greatness, Leopold risks everything to claim his destiny, save the world of his childhood dreams, and prove once and for all that he’s not the disappointment his father believes him to be. But when everything goes terribly, horribly, excruciatingly wrong, Leopold’s disappointments prove to be more extraordinary than he ever could have imagined.

How do you battle darkness when no one believes in you—not even yourself?

About the author:
Ransom Riggs is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children novels, which has sold over 10 million copies and become one of the most iconic fantasy series of this millennium, with Tim Burton’s adaptation of “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children landing at #1 in its opening weekend at the box office. Riggs was born on a farm in Maryland and grew up in southern Florida. He studied literature at Kenyon College and film at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, bestselling author Tahereh Mafi, and their family.