Category: Travel
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Tors Tour To Towne
Tomorrow, July 22, the Rootin' Tootin' Tor Books Four-Author All-Singing, All-Dancing Book Tour and Menagerie of Savage Carnivores arrives at Towne Book Center in Collegeville Pennsylvania for an evening of readings, signing, and discussion. The show starts at 7:00 p.m. at 220 Plaza Drive in Collegeville, moderated by Chris Urie of the Geekadelphia 'blog. We…
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The Stamford Incident
On July 20, the four authors of the Tor Books Summer 2015 Literary Stampede will arrive in the dusty town of Stamford, in the far western reaches of Connecticut. There, at 7:00 p.m. we will appear at the Ferguson Library (One Public Library Plaza) for readings, signings, and farewells. That's right: this is our LAST…
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A Mystic Experience
Tomorrow the Tor Books Summer 2015 Quad-Author Mobile Quilting Bee and Hog-Calling Rodeo arrives at Mystic, Connecticut for an appearance at Bank Square Books. Join me, Brian, Max, and Elizabeth at 53 West Main Street in mystic Mystic at 1:00 p.m. for readin', signin', and general hootin' and hollerin'. Apostrophes optional.
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The Simsbury Massacre!
On Saturday, July 18, at 1:00 p.m. the Tor Books Summer 2015 Author Tour and Steel Cage Masked Wrestling Hoedown arrives at the Simsbury Public Library, 725 Hopmeadow Street, in Simsbury, Connecticut. Brian, Elizabeth, Max, and I will read from our works, sign books, answer questions, and take on all comers luchador style, with no…
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It’s PANDEMONIUM!!
The Tor Books Summer 2015 Multi-Author Tour & Custom Car Demolition Derby continues July 16 with an exhibition game of the Pathfinder roleplaying system, at Pandemonium Books and Games in sunny Cambridge, Massachusetts. SEE! Four fantasy and science fiction writers revert to being fourteen-year-old geeks in somebody's basement rec room as they sit down at…
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It Begins . . .
The Big Summer Book Tour-a-Palooza-o-Rama kicks off at 7:00 p.m. this coming Tuesday, July 14 (Bastille Day, for Francophiles) at the Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We'll be having a book launch party for Max Gladstone's new novel Last First Snow, along with readings and book signings by Elizabeth Bear, Brian…
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The Big 2015 Summer Book Tour!
I haven't been talking much about promotional events for Corsair, but that's about to change. Apparently the three-author road show I did with Ramona Wheeler and Brian Staveley back in the winter of 2014 was enough of a success that Tor Books's publicity department has arranged a bigger and more elaborate version this year. Four…
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What Time Is It?
It's PLUTO TIME! In honor of the New Horizons probe's approach to Pluto (which isn't a planet, and don't argue about it or the IAU will send their Goon Squad to settle the matter), NASA has set up the "Pluto Time" Web site. Here's how it works: you enter your location, and the site tells…
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Science of Sci-Fi at M.I.T.
Tomorrow evening I'll be entering the august and notoriously long halls of the mighty Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take part in a panel discussion on "The Science of Sci-Fi." It will be held in M.I.T. Room 4-231 (wherever that may be) at 7:30 p.m. on May 13, and is open to the public. We'll…
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Boskone: Realm of the Ice Demons!
Later this week I will make the epic journey through the snow-cursed wilderness of Massachusetts to attend this year's Boskone convention. I may have to eat the sled dogs and my faithful Sherpa guide, but the lure of the exotic Westin pleasure-dome draws me onward, and the Ice Demons will learn to fear my axe.…
The Cambias Digression 