This is a list of Author Readings & Signings that have already passed. It is maintained for those who arrived at the Upcoming page and did not find what they were looking for. Events that are yet to occur are on this page.
28 February, 7PM: Cody’s Books (1730 Fourth St, Berkeley, CA) hosts China Miéville, who will be reading, discussing, and signing Un Lun Dun.
1 March, 7PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Kim Stanley Robinson signing Sixty Days and Counting.
1 March, 7PM: Powell’s Books (Beaverton) at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Portland OR) hosts China Miéville, who will be reading, discussing, and signing Un Lun Dun.
1 March, 7PM: The Seattle Public Library’s Central Branch (1000 Fourth Ave, Seattle WA 98104; 206-386-4636; www.spl.org) hosts “A Tribute to Octavia Butler with Nalo Hopkinson and Friends.” Scheduled readers include: actor and director Timeca Briggs; author Nalo Hopkinson; Clarion West executive director Leslie Howle (who will present a slide show); Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large; author Vonda N. McIntyre; and author Nisi Shawl.
2 March, 10AM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Eric Flint.
2 March, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA) hosts China Miéville, who will be reading, discussing, and signing Un Lun Dun.
3 March, 12N: Books of Wonder (18 West 18 St, New York NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.com) hosts Brian Selznick reading from and signing The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
3 March, 2PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson signing their graphic novel City of Others #1.
4 March, 2PM: The Toadstool Bookshop (586 Nashua St, Lorden Plaza, Milford, NH) hosts China Miéville, who will be reading, discussing, and signing Un Lun Dun.
4 March, 2PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Elizabeth Moon signing Command Decision.
5 March, 7PM: Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard St, Boston, MA) hosts China Miéville, who will be reading, discussing, and signing Un Lun Dun.
6 March, 6:30PM: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at New York’s South Street Seaport Museum (Melville Gallery, 213 Water St) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s readers are Lauren McLaughlin and Andrea Kail. Most readings are taped for broadcast on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf” radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM. Updates at www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf.
6 March, 7:30PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Tyler Bates, who will sign the CD soundtrack and poster for 300.
7 March, 6PM: The New York Public Library’s Tompkins Square Branch (331 East 10 Street, New York NY; 212-228-4747) presents “Teen Authors Read” for attendees aged 12-18. The panel of teen authors hosted by David Levithan includes: Erin Downing (author of Prom Crashers; Mayrose Wood, author of Why I Let My Hair Grow Out; Justine Larbalestier, author of Magic’s Child; Leslie Margolis, author of Price of Admission; and Eireann Corrigan, author of Ordinary Ghosts.
8 March, 7PM: Barnes and Noble (4485 Virginia Beach Blvd, Virginia Beach VA; 757-671-2331) hosts Sherrilyn Kenyon, who will be reading from and signing her newest book, The Dream-Hunter.
8 March, 7PM: Olsson’s Books at The Lansburgh/Penn Quarter (418 7th St NW, Washington DC; 202-638-7610; www.olssons.com) hosts Nalo Hopkinson reading and signing The New Moon’s Arms and celebrating the release of Octavia E. Butler‘s last novel, Fledgling in paperback.
8 March, 7PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Joe R. Lansdale, who will be signing Lost Echoes, Masters of Horror: Incident On and Off a Mountain Road, and Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories.
9 March, 7PM: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center (1972 Broadway, New York NY 10023; 212-585-6859) hosts Chris Jones reading from, discussing, and signing Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space.
9 March, 7PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Mario Acevedo signing X-Rated Bloodsuckers.
10 March, 11AM: Booklovers’ Gourmet (55 E Main St, Webster MA 01570; 508-949-6232; www.er3.com/book) hosts Lon Prater, Sidra Vitale, and Aimee Amodio signing their stories in the newest Writers of the Future volume.
10 March, 12N: The Garden State Horror Writers meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Monmouth County Library (125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan, NJ), and is hosting John Joseph Adams (assistant editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. For more information, see www.gshw.net.
10 March, 1PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Mario Acevedo signing X-Rated Bloodsuckers and The Nymphos of Rocky Flats.
10 March, 5PM: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Simon Wood signing Accidents Waiting to Happen.
11 March, 12N Pacific Time: The Second Life Library (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Info%20Island/92/128/33) will host Sharon Lee and Steve Miller talking about their experiences with electronic publishing. A Second Life account is required to attend this virtual event.
11 March, 2PM: Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops (17145 W Bluemound Rd [in V. Richard’s Plaza], Brookfield, WI 53005) will host Tad Williams signing Shadowplay.
12 March, 6PM: Hue-Man Bookstore (212-665-7400; www.huemanbookstore.com), in an event at the Flatbush Public Library (22 Linden Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11226; 718-856-0813), hosts Nalo Hopkinson reading and signing The New Moon’s Arms and celebrating the release of Octavia E. Butler‘s last novel, Fledgling in paperback.
13 March, 7PM: Book People (603 N Lamar, Austin, TX 78703; 512-472-5050; www.bookpeople.com) hosts Joe Lansdale signing Lost Echoes.
13 March, 7PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Tad Williams signing Shadowplay.
14 March, 5PM: Golden Apple Books (7018 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles CA 90038) will host Will Vinton and Andrew Wiese signing Jack Hightower.
16 March, 7PM: Left Bank Books (399 N Euclid, St Louis MO 63108; 314-367-6731) will host Jonathan Lethem signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
16 March, 7PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host David Morrell signing Scavenger.
17 March, 3PM: Borders Books (2420 S Pleasant Valley Rd, Winchester VA 22601; 540-535-2243) hosts Edward M. Lerner signing Moonstruck and Creative Destruction.
17 March, 3PM: Book People (603 N Lamar, Austin, TX 78703; 512-472-5050; www.bookpeople.com) hosts Elizabeth Moon signing Command Decision.
18 March, 2PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts David Morrell signing Scavenger and Creepers.
20 March, 7:30PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts a signing for the DVD Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher with producers Rachel Belofsky and Rudy Scalese, editor Mike Bolusz, composer Harry Manfredini, director Paul Lynch, actress Helene Udy, and others.
21 March, 7PM: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by Carol Emshwiller and David Edelman.
21 March, 7PM: Barnes & Noble Union Square (33 East 17 St, New York NY 10003; 212-253-0810) hosts Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
22 March, 7PM: The Free Library of Philadelphia (1901 Vine St, Philadelphia PA 19103; 215-567-4341) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
22 March, 7PM: The Booksmith (1644 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117; 415-863-8688; www.booksmith.com hosts Kim Stanley Robinson signing Sixty Days and Counting.
24 March, 12N: Books of Wonder (18 West 18 St, New York NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.com) hosts Lisa Barnham signing A Girl Like Moi, Olivia Birdsall signing Notes on a Near-Life Experience, Celeste Conway signing The Melting Season, Justine Larbalestier signing Magic’s Child, Lauren Myracle signing l8r g8r and Twelve, and Margo Rabb signing Cures for Heartbreak.
24 March, 1PM: Uncle Hugo’s (2864 Chicago Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55407; 612-824-9984; www.unclehugo.com/prod) hosts David W. Wixon signing the Childe Cycle book Antagonist.
24 March, 1PM: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Kim Harrison signing For a Few Demons More.
24 March, 2PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts a soundtrack signing, with Jim Manzie (Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III), Scott Glasgow (Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles), Charles Bernstein (Deadly Friend), Dennis Drieth (The Punisher and Gag), and Phillip Lambro (Crypt of the Living Dead, Murph the Surf, The Prophecy and The Prophecy II).
24 March, 3PM: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Tad Williams signing Shadowplay.
25 March, 2PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Kim Harrison signing For a Few Demons More and Vicki Petersson signing The Scent of Shadows: The First Sign of the Zodiac.
27 March, 6PM: Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard St, Brookline MA 02446; 617-566-6660) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
27 March, 7PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts directors Mike Mendez (Gravedancers), Richard Brandes (Penny Dreadful), and Jason Todd (Unrest).
28 March, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-634-3400; www.bookstore.washington.edu/default.taf? will host Kim Harrison signing For a Few Demons More.
29 March, 7PM: Politics & Prose Bookstore (5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC 20008; 202-364-1919) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
29 March, 7PM: Book People (603 N Lamar, Austin, TX 78703; 512-472-5050; www.bookpeople.com) hosts Kim Harrison signing For a Few Demons More.
30 March, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-634-3400; www.bookstore.washington.edu/default.taf? will host Erik Scott de Bie signing Depths of Madness.
31 March, 12N: McNally Robinson at Portage Place (208-393 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 3H6 Canada; 204-943-8376; www.mcnallyrobinson.com) hosts Nathan Town signing Ned Stapleton and the Wrath of the Death Gods.
31 March, 2PM: Uncle Hugo’s (2864 Chicago Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55407; 612-824-9984; www.unclehugo.com/prod) hosts Kim Harrison signing For a Few Demons More.
31 March, 2PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Raymond E. Feist signing Into a Dark Realm: Book Two of the Darkwar Saga.
31 March, 7:30PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Stuart Gordon signing the new release of Re-Animator.
2 April, 7PM: University of Minnesota Book Center (Coffman Memorial Union 300, Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis MN 55455; 612-626-0036) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
3 April, 7PM: HW Schwartz Bookshop (2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee WI 53211; 414-332-1181) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
3 April, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-633-6443; www.bookstore.washington.edu) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
4 April, 7PM: Prairie Lights Books (15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City IA 52240; 319-337-2681) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
4 April, 7PM: Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton OR; 503-643-3131) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
5 April, 7PM: Shaman Drum Bookshop (311-315 S State St, Ann Arbor MI 48104; 734-662-7407) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
5 April, 7PM: Borders Books & Music, Orange (20 City Blvd W, Orange CA 92868; 714-279-8933) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
6 April, 1PM: Mystery & Imagination Bookstore (238 N Brand Blvd, Glendale CA 91203; 818-545-0206) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
6 April, 7PM: Barnes & Noble, Huntington Beach (7881 Edinger Ave, Huntington Beach CA 92647; 714-897-8781) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
7 April, 1PM: Sam’s Club (7021 S Westnedge Ave, Portage MI 49002; 269-327-0534) hosts Kathleen and Michael Gear signing People of the Nightland.
7 April, 1PM: Barnes and Noble Coronado Center (6600 Menaul Blvd NE, Albuquerque NM 87110; 505-883-8200) hosts Jane Lindskold reading and signing Wolf’s Blood.
7 April, 1PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Jim Butcher signing White Night.
7 April, 3:30PM: Sam’s Club (3600 ONeill Dr, Jackson MI 49202; 517-788-6075) hosts Kathleen and Michael Gear signing People of the Nightland.
9 April, 5PM: Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore (2864 Chicago Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55407; 612-824-6347) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
9 April, 7PM: The Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library 7472 (630 W 5th St, Los Angeles CA 90071; 213-228-7515) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
10 April, 6:30PM: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at New York’s South Street Seaport Museum (Melville Gallery, 213 Water St) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s readers are James Morrow and Charles Pellegrino. Most readings are taped for broadcast on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf” radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM. Updates at www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf.
10 April, 7PM: Barnes & Noble (320 Mid-Rivers Center Dr, St Peters MO 63376; 636-278-1118) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
10 April, 7PM: Vroman’s Bookstore (695 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena CA 91101; 626-449-5320) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
11 April, 7PM: Borders Book & Music (9108 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park KS 66212; 913-642-3642) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
11 April, 7:30PM: Skylight Books (1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles CA 90027; 323-660-1175) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
12 April, 4PM: Onread Books at Kansas University (Lawrence KS) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
12 April: Seattle City Arts & Lectures (5th Avenue Theater, Seattle WA 98104; 206-621-2230) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
12 April, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-633-6443; ) hosts Greg Bear signing Quantico.
13 April, 7PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Natasha Rhodes signing Dante’s Girl and Samantha Sommersby signing Forbidden: The Awakening.
14 April, 12N: The Garden State Horror Writers meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Monmouth County Library (125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan, NJ), and is hosting the Chester County Paranormal Society. For more information, see www.gshw.net.
14 April, 11AM: Sam’s Club (31720 Gratiot Ave, Roseville MI 48066; 586-415-9987) hosts Kathleen and Michael Gear signing People of the Nightland.
14 April, 2PM: Sam’s Club (31020 John R Rd, Madison Heights MI 48071; 248-589-1208) hosts Kathleen and Michael Gear signing People of the Nightland.
14 April, 3PM: Bakka Phoenix Bookstore (697 Queen St W, Toronto, ONT M6E 1J4 Canada; 416-963-9993; www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
14 April, 12N: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Robert Balmanno signing September Snow.
14 April, 2PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Reggie Bannister signing the new release of the DVD Phantasm and Phantasm III.
15 April, 12N: Sam’s Club (27300 Wixom Rd, Novi MI 48375; 248-589-1208) hosts Kathleen and Michael Gear signing People of the Nightland.
15 April, 12N: Poisoned Pen (4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale AZ 85251; 480-947-2974) hosts Jim Butcher signing White Night.
15 April, 3PM: The Write Book and Gift Shop (19 N Main St, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472; 585-624-4560; www.writebookandgift.com hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
16 April, 7PM: Flights of Fantasy (488 Albany-Shaker Rd, Loudonville, NY 12211; 518-435-9337; www.fof.net) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
17 April, 12N: The Google Author Series (1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View CA 94043; 650-253-6157) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
17 April, 5PM: Books of Wonder (18 West 18 St, New York NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.com) hosts Angie Sage signing Physik (Book Three in the Septimus Heap series); Suzanne Collins signing Gregor and the Code of Claw (Book Five in the Underland Chronicles); and Dale Peck signing The Lost Cities (a Drift House Voyage).
17 April, 7PM: The Toadstool Bookshop (Lorden Plaza, Route 101A, Milford NH 03055; 603-673-1734; www.toadbooks.com) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
17 April, 6PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host a celebration of the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s The Children of Hurin.
18 April, 7PM: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by Jon Armstrong and Kit Reed.
18 April, 7PM: Barnes & Noble (2289 Broadway at 82nd Street, New York NY; 212-362-8835) hosts Arthur Phillips signing Angelica.
18 April, 7PM: Barnes & Noble (Camp Hill Shopping Center, 58 S 32 St, Camp Hill, PA 17011; 717-737-0221; barnesandnoble.com) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
18 April, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-633-6443; www.bookstore.washington.edu) hosts Daniel Wilson signing Where’s My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived.
18 April, 7:30PM: Seattle City Arts & Lectures (5th Avenue Theater, Seattle WA 98104; 206-621-2230) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
20 April, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-633-6443; ) hosts a reading from The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 featuring L. Timmel Duchamp, Vonda N. McIntyre, Kara Dalkey, Matt Ruff, and Eileen Gunn.
21 April, 2PM: the Southeast Regional Library (775 N Greenfield Rd, Gilbert AZ 85234; 602-652-3000) hosts Ben Bova reading from and signing The Sam Gunn Omnibus.
21 April, 1PM: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Scott Sigler signing Ancestor.
21 April, 3PM: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Ray Garton signing Night Life.
21 April, 4PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Jennifer Colt signing The Vampire of Venice Beach.
22 April: Barnes & Noble (Potomac Yard, 3651 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Alexandria, VA 22305; 703-299-9124; www.barnesandnoble.com) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
23 April, 7:30PM: Boulder Bookstore (1107 Pearl St, Boulder CO 80302; 303-447-2074) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
24 April, 7:30PM: Tattered Cover Bookstore (2526 E Colfax Ave, Denver CO 80206; 303-322-7727) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
24 April, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-633-6443; www.bookstore.washington.edu) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
25 April, 8PM: 92nd Street Y (1395 Lexington Ave, New York NY 10128; 212-415-5500) will host Jonathan Lethem reading and signing You Don’t Love Me Yet.
25 April, 7PM: Bay Book and Tobacco Co (80 N Cabrillo Way, Half Moon Bay, CA) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
26 April, 7PM: McNally Robinson at Grant Park (1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3M 2A6 Canada; 204-475-0483; www.mcnallyrobinson.com) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
26 April, 7PM: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
27 April, 7:30PM: The Philadelpahia Science Fiction Society’s Philadelphia Fantastic reading series (Barnes & Noble, 1805 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA; www.psfs.org/events) is hosting a reading and signing for Space & Time magazine with Mattie Brahen, Natalia Lincoln, and Editor-in-Chief Hildy Silverman.
27 April, 5:30PM: Dark Carnival (3086 Claremont Ave, Berkeley, CA 94706; 510-654-7323; www.darkcarnival.com) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
28 April, 2PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts “The Suicide Girls Hit Burbank” with James, Sawa, Gogo, and Rigel signing Suicide Girls Magazine, The First Tour DVD, and The Italian Villa DVD.
28 April: Waldenbooks (270 Southcenter Shopping Centre, Seattle, WA 98188) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Terry Brooks.
30 April, 12N: Bakka-Phoenix Books (697 Queen St W, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1E6; 416-963-9993; www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com) hosts Anne Bishop.
30 April, 7:30PM: The Poisoned Pen (4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Suite 101, Scottsdale, AZ 85251; 480-947-2974; www.poisonedpen.com) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
30 April, 7PM: White Dwarf Books (3715 W Tenth Ave, Vancouver, BC V6R 2G5 Canada; 604-228-8223; www.deadwrite.com/wd.html) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
1 May, 6:30PM: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at New York’s South Street Seaport Museum (Melville Gallery, 213 Water St) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s readers are F. Brett Cox and David Wellington. Most readings are taped for broadcast on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf” radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM. Updates at www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf.
1 May, 7PM: Barnes & Noble (14 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003; 212-420-1322) hosts Grant Curtis discussing and signing The Spider-Man Chronicles: The Art and Making of Spider-Man 3.
1 May, 7PM: Barnes & Noble (Country Club Plaza, 420 W 47th St, Kansas City, MO 64112; 816-753-1313) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
1 May, 7:30PM: Audrey’s Books (10702 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 2J5 Canada; 780-423-3487; www.audreysbooks.com) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
1 May, 7PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
1 May: Powell’s Books (Cedar Hills Crossing, 3417 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Steve Perry and Timothy Zahn.
2 May, 7PM: Barnes & Noble Union Square (33 E 17 St, New York NY 10003; 212-253-0810) hosts Michael Chabon reading and signing The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.
2 May, 7PM: Barnes & Noble (320 Mid-Rivers Center Dr, St Peters, MO 63376; 636-278-1118) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
2 May, 7PM: McNally Robinson on the Stephen Avenue Walk (120 8th Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 1B3 Canada; 403-538-1797; www.mcnallyrobinson.com) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
2 May, 7PM: Powell’s Books (1005 W Burnside, Portland, OR 97209; www.powells.com) will host John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
3 May, 7PM: Borders Books & Music (11711 Princeton Pike, Cincinnati, OH 45246; 412-374-9822) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
3 May, 7PM: Prairie Lights Bookstore (15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA 52240; 319-337-2681; www.priarielights.com) will host John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
4 May, 7:30PM: Borders Books & Music (5871 Crossroads Center Way, Baileys Crossroads, VA 22041; 703-998-0404) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
4 May, 7PM: Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop (2262 S Kinnickinnic Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53207; 414-481-3401; www.schwartzbooks.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=0) will host John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
5 May, 12N: Books of Wonder (18 W 18 St, New York NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.net) hosts William Boniface signing The Extraordinary Adventures of an Ordinary Boy; Michael Buckley signing The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime; Sarah Deming signing Iris and Messenger; Dan Greenburg signing Please Don’t Eat the Children and When Bad Snakes Attack Good Children; and Neal Shusterman signing Everlost, The Schwa was Here, and the Dark Fusion series.
5 May, 1PM: Uncle Hugo’s (2864 Chicago Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55407; 612-824-9984; www.unclehugo.com/prod) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony and Tate Hallaway (aka Lyda Morehouse) signing Dead Sexy.
5 May, 2PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts “Free Comic Book Day,” giving ever visitor a free comic book. They’ll also have Steve Niles, Dan Wickline, and Bernie Wrightson signing 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, City of Others, and 30 Days of Night: Three Tales.
5 May: Books Passage (51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, CA 94925) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring J.W. Rinzler.
6 May, 1PM: Borders Books & Music (43075 Crescent Blvd, Novi, MI) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
6 May: Page One Bookstore (11018 Montgomery NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Walter Jon Williams.
7 May, 7PM: Forbidden Planet and the Strand Bookstore (828 Broadway at 12th St, New York, NY 10003-4805; 212-473-1452) host Kim Deitch—discussing and signing Alias the Cat— and Chip Kidd.
7 May, 7PM: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105; 206-633-6443) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
8 May, 7PM: Barnes & Noble (675 Sixth Ave, New York, NY; 212-727-1227) hosts Steven Hall discussing and signing www.olssons.com) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
8 May, 7PM: Powell’s City of Books (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
9 May, 6:30PM: Fountain Bookstore (Historic Shockoe Slip, 1312 E Cary St, Richmond, VA 23219; 804-788-1594; www.fountainbookstore.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
9 May, 7PM: the Oshawa Public Library’s McLaughlin Branch (65 Bagot St, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada; 905-579-6111) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
9 May, 7PM: Barnes & Noble (98 Broadway, Jack London Sq, Oakland, CA 94607) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
10 May, 12N: Coles Royal Bank Plaza (200 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J3 Canada; 416-865-0090; www.chapters.indigo.ca) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
10 May, 3:30PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host D.J. MacHale signing Pendragon Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Raine.
10 May, 7PM: Chapters (135 Gateway Park Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada; 519-650-2553) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
10 May, 7PM: Barnes & Noble, 160 S Westlake Blvd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362; 805-446-2820) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
11 May, 1PM: Dark Delicacies Bookstore (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
11 May, 5PM: Borders Book Store (100 Broadway, New York, NY 10007) hosts the annual SFWA mass signing, with more than 30 authors signing.
11 May, 7PM: Chapters Kitchener (135 Gateway Park Dr, Kitchener, Ontario N2P 2J9 Canada; 519-650-2553; www.chapters.indigo.ca) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
11 May, 7PM: Borders Books and Music (2110 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90815; 562-799-0486) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
12 May, 10AM: the Lambton Public Library’s Sarnia Branch (124 Christina St S, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
12 May, 12N: The Garden State Horror Writers meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Monmouth County Library (125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan, NJ), and is hosting Mike Penncavage. For more information, see www.gshw.net.
12 May, 11AM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Jeffrey J. Mariotte signing Missing White Girl.
12 May, 12N: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Susan Hubbard signing The Society of S.
12 May, 3PM: Chapters North London (Richmond Centre, 86 Fanshawe, London, Ontario N5X 4C5 Canada; 519-672-6781; www.chapters.indigo.ca) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
12 May, 1PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Charlaine Harris signing All Together Dead.
12 May, 2PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts “The Hot Chicks of Horror,” including Cerina Vincent signing How to Eat Like a Hot Chick; Victoria Mazze from The Divine Madness signing their new CD, Secrets; and Alicia Arden, Jennifer Delora, Charlotte J. Helmkamp, Barbara Nedeljakova, and Eliza Swenson signing their photos.
12 May, 3PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host A. Lee Martinez signing A Nameless Witch.
12 May, 3PM: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Pat Murphy, Tim Pratt, and John Varley signing The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender.
12 May: Barnes & Noble (2100 N Snelling Ave, Roseville, MN 55113) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring J.W. Rinzler.
12 May: Barnes & Noble (795 Citadel Dr E, Colorado Springs, CO 80909) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta.
12 May: Changing Hands Bookstore (6428 S McClintock Dr, Tempe, AZ 85283) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Alan Dean Foster and Michael Stackpole.
13 May, 3PM: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Jeff Prucher signing Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction.
14 May, 12N: Mesquite Public Library (4525 Paradise Village Pkwy N, Phoenix, AZ 85032) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
14 May, 7PM: Poisoned Pen (4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Scottsdale AZ 85251; 480-947-2974) hosts Charlaine Harris signing All Together Dead.
14 May: Memphis Public Library’s Central Library (3030 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN 38111) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Daniel Wallace.
15 May, 6:30PM: Murder by the Book (2342 Bissonnet St, Houston, TX 77005; 713-524-8597) hosts Charlaine Harris reading from and signing All Together Dead.
15 May, 7PM: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Bob Burns signing The Ghost Busters and Doug Jones signing the special edition of Pan’s Labyrinth.
16 May, 7PM: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by John Crowley and Sarah Langan.
16 May, 7PM: Variety Children’s Charity (The Variety Preview Room, first floor of The Hobart Building, 582 Market St. at Montgomery, San Francisco, CA; www.sfinsf.org) presents a reading by Cory Doctorow and Rudy Rucker, followed by a discussion moderazted by Terry Bisson.
17 May, 5PM: Books of Wonder (18 W 18 St, New York, NY 10011; 212-989-3270) hosts Troy Cle signing Marvelous World, Book 1: The Marvelous Effect; Gina & David Gershon signing Camp Creepy Time; Mary Downing Hahn signing Deep and Dark and Dangerous; Rick Riordan signing Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 3: The Titan’s Curse.
17 May: Borders Books & Music (2765 E Bidwell St, Folsom, CA 95630) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring J.W. Rinzler.
18 May, 7:30PM MDT: Tattered Cover Book Store (2526 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206; 303-322-7727; www.tatteredcover.com) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
18 May: Hiram Halle Memorial Library (271 Westchester Ave, Pound Ridge NY; 914-764-5085) hosts Elizabeth Hand reading from and signing Generation Lost.
19 May, 2PM EDT: Borders Books (162 E Main St, Mt Kisco NY; 914-241-8387)hosts Elizabeth Hand reading from and signing Generation Lost.
19 May, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts John Farris signing You Don’t Scare Me.
19 May, 3PM CDT: Borders (4000 E 53rd St, Davenport IA 52807; 563-359-7830; Borders Davenport’s web page) hosts John Klima signing Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories.
19 May, 7PM EDT: KGB Bar (85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.
19 May, 5PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Susan Palwick signing The Fate of Mice.
19 May, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts a “Special Horror Gathering” with Jace Anderson & Adam Gierasch, Peter Atkins, Reggie Bannister, Jeff Burr, John Esposito, Mick Garris, Adam Green, Richard Grove, Courtney Joyner, Phillip Lambro, Beverly Randolph, Coralina Cataldi Tassoni, and Staci Layne Wilson.
19 May: Borders Books & Music (1500 16th St, Oak Brook, IL 60523) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Matthew Stover.
19 May: Southeast Anchor Library (3601 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD 21224) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring James Luceno.
19 May: Davis County Library’s South Branch (725 S Main St, Bountiful, UT 84010) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring J.W. Rinzler.
19 May: Santa Monica Public Library (601 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90403) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Steve Barnes.
20 May, 1PM EDT: Books of Wonder (18 W 18 St, New York, NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.net) hosts: Holly Black signing Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale and The Spiderwick Chronicles: Care and Feeding of Sprites; Cassandra Clare signing City of Bones; Lisa Ann Sandell signing Song of the Sparrow; Dean Whitlock signing Raven; and Ysabeau S. Wilce signing Flora Segunda.
20 May, 1PM CDT: Barnes & Noble (North Park Mall, 320 West Kimberly Rd, Davenport IA 52806; 563-445-8760; store web page) hosts John Klima signing Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories.
20 May, 7PM EDT: KGB Bar (85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by Jennifer Banash, Nick Mamatas, and Matthew Sharpe.
20 May: Borders Books & Music (2190 N Rainbow Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89108) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring J.W. Rinzler.
20 May: Mahopac Public Library (668 Route Six, Mahopac, NY 10541) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Helen Keier and Ann Lewis.
21 May, 6:30PM EDT: Barnes & Noble Park Slope (267 Seventh Ave, Brooklyn NY 11215; 718-832-9066) hosts Holly Black reading from and signing Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale.
21 May, 7PM PDT: Fantastic Fiction Salons (at the Richard Hugo House, 1634 Eleventh Ave, Seattle, WA; nwmediaarts.com/2007Event-Salons.html) presents Karen Joy Fowler reading from and discussing her work. $4 donation requested.
22 May, 7PM EDT: Barnes & Noble (1739 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus OH 43212; 614-298-9516) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
23 May, 6:30PM EDT: Harvard Book Store (1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02138; 800-542-7323; www.harvard.com) hosts Elizabeth Hand signing Generation Loss.
24 May, 7PM EDT: Books & Co (Dayton Town & Country Shopping Center, 350 E Stroop Rd, Kettering, OH 45429; 937-298-6540; www.booksandco.com) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
24 May, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Esther Friesner signing Tempting Fate and Nobody’s Princess.
25 May, 5PM EDT: National Space Society-New York (North West Restaurant, 392 Columbus Ave, New York NY 10024; 212-799-4530; NSS-NY’s web site) hosts Edward Belbruno signing Fly Me to the Moon: An Insider’s Guide to the New Science of Space Travel.
25 May, 7PM CDT: Barnes & Noble (7700 West Northwest Hwy, Dallas TX 75225; 214-739-1124) hosts Ben Bova reading and signing The Sam Gunn Omnibus.
28 May, 8PM EDT: Stone Soup Poetry (at Out Of The Blue Art Gallery, 106 Prospect St, Cambridge MA 02139) hosts a book launch party and group reading from Look! Up in the Sky! An Anthology of Comic Book Poetry.
28 May: Waldenbooks (270 Southcenter Shopping Center, Seattle WA 98188; 206-248-0886) hosts Terry Brooks.
29 May: Borders Books & Music (3700 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503) hosts a Del Rey Star Wars 30th Anniversary event featuring Karen Traviss.
30 May, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host Karen Traviss reading and signing Star Wars: Legacy of the Force #5: Sacrifice.
31 May, 7PM EDT: Joseph-Beth Booksellers (2692 Madison Rd, Cincinnati OH 45208; 513-396-8960) hosts John Scalzi signing The Last Colony.
31 May: Barnes & Noble (14709 US Hwy 31 North, Carmel, IN 46032) hosts Karen Traviss reading and signing Star Wars: Legacy of the Force #5: Sacrifice.
1 June, 7:30PM EDT: Philadelpahia Fantastic (Barnes and Noble, 1805 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA; www.psfs.org) presents Gregory Frost and Darrell Schweitzer reading their stories from and signing The Secret History of Vampires, followed, as always, by a pay-as-you-go dinner.
2 June, 2PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco CA 94110; 415-824-8203) hosts Carol Berg signing Flesh and Spirit.
2 June, 6PM EDT: Solaris Books (at Perdition, 692 10th Avenue, New York NY 10019; 212-852-5600; www.perditionnyc.com) hosts Chris Roberson reading from and signing Line of Dichotomy and Gail Z. Martin reading from and signing The Blood King.
2 June, 5PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Katherine Kerr signing The Spirit Stone.
3 June, 12N EDT: Chapters Sudbury (1425 Kingsway Rd, Sudbury, Ontario P3A 4R7 Canada; 705-525-5616; www.chapters.indigo.ca) hosts Robert J. Sawyer signing Rollback.
4 June, 7PM EDT: Olsson’s Books & Records (2111 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 20001) hosts Karen Traviss reading and signing Star Wars: Legacy of the Force #5: Sacrifice.
5 June, 7PM PDT: Cody’s Books (1730 Fourth St, Berkeley CA) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
7 June, 1PM PDT: Star Trek: the Experience (3000 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas NV 89109; 702-697-8751; www.startrekexp.com) hosts Keith R.A. DeCandido and Terri Osborne signing their Star Trek books.
7 June, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR; 503-643-3131) hosts Carol Berg signing Flesh and Spirit.
9 June, 12N EDT: The Garden State Horror Writers meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Monmouth County Library (125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan, NJ), and is hosting Mary Sangiovanni. For more information, see www.gshw.net.
9 June, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts producer Leonard McLeod, director David Lee Fisher, composer Eban Schletter, and actors John Bigham, Lauren Birkett, Richard Herd, Daamen Krall, and Tim Russ signing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari DVD.
9 June, 7PM EDT: Barnes & Noble (1739 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus OH 43212; 614-298-9516) hosts Tobias S. Buckell reading, discussing, and signing Ragamuffin.
10 June, 1:30PM EDT: Books of Wonder (18 W 18 St, New York NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.net) hosts a reading/discussion/signing of The Coyote Road with Steve Berman, Jedediah Berry, Richard Bowes, Ellen Datlow, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, and Delia Sherman.
11 June, 6:30PM EDT: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at New York’s South Street Seaport Museum (Melville Gallery, 213 Water St) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s program is will consist of readings from and signings of The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, with Steve Berman, Jedediah Berry, Richard Bowes, Ellen Datlow, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, and Delia Sherman. Most readings are taped for broadcast on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf” radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM. Updates at www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf.
16 June, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Tad Stones, writers Mike Mignola and Kevin Hopps, and composer Chris Drake signing the DVD Hellboy: Blood & Iron and author Tommy Yune signing The Art of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles.
17 June, 3PM EDT: Pandemonium Books (4 Pleasant St, Cambridge MA 02139; 617-547-3721; www.pandemoniumbooks.com) hosts Laura Anne Gilman signing Burning Bridges.
18 June, 7PM PDT: Third Place Books (17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, Seattle WA) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
18 June, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Jacqueline Carey signing Kushiel’s Justice.
19 June, 6PM EDT: Bluffton Public Library (145 S Main St, Bluffton OH 45817; 419-358-5016) hosts Tobias S. Buckell reading, discussing, and signing Ragamuffin.
19 June, 7PM PDT: University Book Store (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
19 June, 7:30PM PDT: The Clarion West Summer Reading Series (at the JBL Theater, 325 Fifth Ave N, Seattle WA 98109; 206-770-2702; directions page) presents Clarion West guest lecturer Nancy Kress reading and signing her work.
20 June, 7PM EDT: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading from Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing with K. Tempest Bradford, Rachel Pollack, Veronica Schanoes, and Catherynne M. Valente.
20 June, 7PM PDT: Book People (603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin OR) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
21 June, 7PM EDT: Strand Book Store (828 Broadway at 12th St, New York, NY 10003; 212-473-1452; web site hosts editor Justin Taylor and contributors Brian Evenson, Gary Lutz, Rick Moody, and Deb Olin Unferth signing The Apocalypse Reader.
21 June, 8PM EDT: Book Revue (313 New York Ave, Huntington, NY; www.bookrevue.com) hosts the launch party for Sarah Beth Durst, who will be reading and signing Into the Wild.
21 June, 7:30PM PDT: Powell’s Books (3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland OR) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
22 June, 7PM EDT: Barnes & Noble (5155 Route 30, Greensburg PA 15601; 724-832-0622) hosts Tobias S. Buckell reading, discussing, and signing Ragamuffin.
22 June, 7:30PM EDT: Philadelpahia Fantastic (Barnes and Noble, 1805 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA; www.psfs.org) presents Danielle Ackley-McPhail reading from and signing her newest novel, followed, as always, by a pay-as-you-go dinner.
23 June, 12N EDT: Books of Wonder (18 West 18 St, New York NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.com) hosts fantasy authors Sarah Beth Durst signing Into the Wild, J.T. Petty signing The Scrivener Bees, Ellen Potter signing Olivia Kidney and the Secret Beneath the City, and Staton Rabin signing The Curse of the Romanovs.
23 June, 1PM EDT: Borders Books and Music (59 Wolf Road #1, Albany, NY; 518-482-5800) hosts Scot R. Stone signing The Chimes of Yawrana and The Ice Shaddows of Arna.
23 June, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Rusty Sherrill signing Kid Nitro and the Sinister Slorp and Stefan Varner and illustrator James Muscarello signing The Enigmatic ABC’s and Rebecca’s Realm: A Collection of Goth Toons.
23 June, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Jacqueline Carey signing Kushiel’s Justice.
25 June, 7PM EDT: Strand Book Store (828 Broadway at 12th St, New York, NY 10003; 212-473-1452; web site hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
25 June, 7PM PDT: Variety Children’s Charity (The Variety Preview Room, first floor of The Hobart Building, 582 Market St. at Montgomery, San Francisco, CA; www.sfinsf.org) presents a reading by Gregory Benford and Paul Park, followed by a discussion moderated by Terry Bisson.
26 June, 7PM EDT: Harvard Coop (1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
26 June, 7:30PM PDT: The Clarion West Summer Reading Series (at the JBL Theater, 325 Fifth Ave N, Seattle WA 98109; 206-770-2702; directions page) presents Clarion West guest lecturer Larissa Lai reading and signing her work.
27 June: Bookslut Reading Series at Stop Smiling Magazine (1371 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
27 June, 5PM EDT: Books of Wonder (18 West 18 St, New York NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.com) hosts Sarah Mlynowski signing Spells & Sleeping Bags and Jessica Wollman signing Switched.
27 June, 7PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Gregory Frost discussing and signing Fitcher’s Brides.
27 June, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Scott Glosserman signing the DVD Behind the Mask—The Rise of Leslie Vernon.
28 June, 7:30PM CDT: Rain Taxi Reading Series at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2501 Stevens Ave, Minneapolis MN) features Austin Grossman and Douglas Wolk.
29 June: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Lois McMaster Bujold in a drop-by signing.
30 June, 1PM EDT: Don’s Books (815 N Washington St, Kokomo IN 46901; 765-459-4901) hosts Tobias Buckell hosts Tobias S. Buckell reading, discussing, and signing Ragamuffin and John Scalzi reading, discussing, and signing The Last Colony.
30 June, 2PM: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Nancy Holder signing The Rose Bride: A Retelling of “The White Bride and the Black Bride”.
30 June, 7PM PDT: Third Place Books (17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155; 206-366-3333) hosts Greg Bear signing Quantico.
2 July, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105) hosts Elizabeth Haydon reading and signing The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter.
3 July, 10AM PDT: Barnes & Noble (2675 NE University Village St, Seattle, WA 98105) hosts Elizabeth Haydon signing The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter.
3 July, 1PM PDT: All For Kids (2900 NE Blakeley St, Seattle, WA 98105-3100) hosts Elizabeth Haydon signing The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter.
3 July, 7:30PM PDT: The Clarion West Summer Reading Series (at the JBL Theater, 325 Fifth Ave N, Seattle WA 98109; 206-770-2702; directions page) presents Clarion West guest lecturer Graham Joyce reading and signing his work.
4 July, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Jeff VanderMeer reading and signing Shriek: An Afterword.
5 July, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005; www.powells.com) hosts Elizabeth Haydon reading and signing The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter.
5 July, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Cecilia Tan talking about “How I Edited 30 Anthologies of Erotic Science Fiction and Kept My Sanity (I think…)”
6 July, 7PM PDT: Borders Books & Music (7227 SW Bridgeport Rd, Tigard, OR 97224) hosts Elizabeth Haydon reading and signing The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter.
7 July, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet’s London Megastore (179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JR England; 0207 420 3666; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Neal Asher reading and signing Hilldiggers.
7 July, 2PM PDT: Copperfield’s Books (139 Edman Way, Sebastopol, CA 95472) hosts Elizabeth Haydon reading and signing The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter.
7 July, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Hilber Graf signing Chasing Boomtown Phantoms; Michael Louis Calvillo signing his first horror novel, I Will Rise; Roger Conlee signing Counterclockwise; and V.M.K. Fewings signing Stone Masters: A Vampire Reckoning.
8 July, 2PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts James Rollins reading and signing The Judas Strain.
9 July, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet’s London Megastore (179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JR England; 0207 420 3666; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Jasper Fforde reading and signing First Among Sequels.
9 July, 7PM EDT: DeKalb County Public Library (Georgia Center for the Book, 215 Sycamore St, Decatur GA 30030; 404-370-8450) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
9 July, 7PM PDT: Borders Books & Music (3700 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503) hosts Elizabeth Haydon reading and signing The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter.
10 July, 1PM EDT: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (1972 Broadway at 66th St, New York, NY 10023; 212-595-6859) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
10 July, 6PM CDT: Alabama Booksmith (2626 19th Place South, Birmingham AL 35209; 205-870-4242) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
10 July, 7:30PM PDT: The Clarion West Summer Reading Series (at the JBL Theater, 325 Fifth Ave N, Seattle WA 98109; 206-770-2702; directions page) presents Clarion West guest lecturer Kelley Eskridge reading and signing her work.
11 July, 12:30PM BST: Cheltenham Waterstones (33/41 The Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 1LE, England; 01242 571779) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
11 July, 11AM EDT: Marine Corps Community Services (Headquarters Battalion, Marine Corps, National Capital Region Command, Henderson Hall, 1555 Southgate Rd, Building 25, Keith Hall, Arlington, VA 22214) hosts R.J. Hillhouse reading and signing Outsources.
11 July, 7PM BST: Bath Waterstones (4-5 Milsom Street, Bath, Somerset, BA1 1DA, England; 01225 448515) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
11 July, 6PM EDT: the New York Public Library’s Tompkins Square Branch (331 E 10 St [near Ave B], New York, NY; web site) hosts Sarah Beth Durst reading and signing Into the Wild as part of Teen Author Reading Night.
11 July, 7PM EDT: Forbidden Planet presents an event at Strand Book Store (828 Broadway at 12th St, New York, NY 10003; 212-473-1452; web site: Peter Kuper giving a slide-show presentation of Stop Forgetting to Remember and Kevin Pyle discussing and signing Blindpost.
11 July, 7PM: Borders Books and Music (230 Garden State Plaza, Paramus, NJ 07652; 201-712-1166) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
11 July, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy Books (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92111; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Elizabeth Haydon reading and signing The Floating Island and The Thief Queen’s Daughter.
12 July, 1PM BST: Nottingham Waterstones (1/5 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham, NG1 2GR; 0115 948 4499) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
12 July: Poisoned Pen (4014 N Goldwater #101, Scottsdale, AZ 85251; 480-947-2974) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
12 July, 7PM BST: Manchester Waterstones (91 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 2BW, England; 0161 837 3000) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
12 July, 7PM PDT: Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library 7472 (630 W 5th St, Los Angeles CA 90071; 213-228-7515) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
13 July, 1PM BST: Sheffield Waterstones (24-26 Orchard Square, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, S1 2FB, England; 0114 272 8971) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
13 July, 7PM BST: Lincoln Waterstones (297A High Street, Lincoln, LN2 1AF, England; 01522 540011) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
13 July, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-278-4004; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts: Emma Bull reading and signing Territory; Karen Joy Fowler reading and signing The Jane Austen Book Club; and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
14 July, 1PM BST: The Idle Hour (94a Town Street, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 4AP, England; 0113 281 9889; www.the-idle-hour.co.uk) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
14 July, 12N EDT: Borders Books and Music (30 Ash Brook Rd, Keene, NH; 603-357-7667) hosts Scot R. Stone signing The Chimes of Yawrana and The Ice Shaddows of Arna.
14 July, 12N EDT: The Garden State Horror Writers meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Monmouth County Library (125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan, NJ), and is hosting author and editor Michael Penncavage. For more information, see www.gshw.net.
14 July, 2PM EDT: Borders Books in the Milford Mall (1201 Boston Post Rd, Milford CT 06460; 203-878-3333) hosts Laura Anne Gilman signing Burning Bridges.
14 July, 7:30PM BST: The Whitby Bookshop (88 Church Street, Whitby, North Yorkshire, YO22 4BH, England; 01947 606202; www.thewhitbybookshop.co.uk) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
14 July, 3:30PM EDT: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Plaza (541 D Lincoln St, Worcester, MA; web site) hosts Sarah Beth Durst reading and signing Into the Wild.
14 July, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
14 July, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Kage Baker reading and signing The Sons of Heaven.
16 July, 6PM BST: Waterstones (128 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 4AD, Scotland; 0131 226 2666) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
16 July, 3PM EDT: Menlo Park Mall (100 Menlo Park, Edison, NJ 08837) hosts Bill Evans signing Category 7.
16 July, 7PM EDT: Quail Ridge Books (3522, Wade Ave, Raleigh NC 27607; 919-828-7912) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
16 July, 7PM PDT: Cody’s Books (1730 Fourth St, Berkeley CA 94710; 510-559-9500) hosts Ellen Klages reading and signing Portable Childhoods.
16 July, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
17 July, 12:30PM BST: Borders (98 Buchanan Street, Royal Exhange Square, Glasgow G1 3BA, Scotland; 0141 222 7700) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
17 July, 6:30PM BST: Waterstones (104 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6JG; 0191 261 6140) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
17 July, 6PM CDT: Davis-Kidd Booksellers (2121 Green Hills Village Dr, Ste 281, Nashville TN 37215; 615-783-0218) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
17 July, 7:30PM PDT: The Clarion West Summer Reading Series (at the JBL Theater, 325 Fifth Ave N, Seattle WA 98109; 206-770-2702; directions page) presents Clarion West guest lecturer Patrick Nielsen Hayden being interviewed by Eileen Gunn.
18 July, 12N EDT: Barnes and Noble (106 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201; 718-246-4996) hosts Bill Evans signing Category 7.
18 July, 7PM BST: Waterstones (37A Middle Street, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1LG; 01935 479832) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
18 July, 5PM CDT: Lemuria Bookstore (202 Banner Hall 4465, I-55 North, Jackson MS 39206; 601-366-7619) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
18 July, 7PM EDT: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by Esther Friesner and Paul Park.
18 July, 7PM EDT: Ocean County Library’s Manchester Branch (21 Colonial Dr, Manchester, NJ 08759) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
18 July, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-278-4004; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts: Cory Doctorow reading and signing Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present.
18 July, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005; 503-228-4651) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
18 July, 7PM PDT: Variety Children’s Charity (The Variety Preview Room, first floor of The Hobart Building, 582 Market St. at Montgomery, San Francisco, CA; www.sfinsf.org) presents a reading by Lisa Goldstein and Tad Williams, followed by a discussion moderated by Terry Bisson.
19 July, 7PM BST: Borders (Unit 14, New Park Shopping Centre, Talbot Green, Pontyclun, Llantrisant CF72 8LW; 01443 239418) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
19 July, 5PM CDT: Square Books (160 Courthouse Square, Oxford MS 38655; 662-236-2262) /hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
19 July, 7PM EDT: Bookends (232 E Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450; 201-445-0726; web site) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
19 July, 7PM PDT: University Book Store (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105; 206-634-3400) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
19 July, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Mike Carey reading and signing The Devil You Know.
20 July, 9PM EDT: Eight Cousins Bookstore (189 Main St, Falmouth, MA; web site) hosts Sarah Beth Durst reading and signing Into the Wild during the Harry Potter festivities.
20 July, 10PM EDT: Quail Ridge Books & Music (3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh, NC 27607; 919-828-1588; web page) hosts a Final Harry Potter Party.
20 July, 7PM PDT: White Dwarf Books (3715 W Tenth Ave, Vancouver, BC V6R 2G5; 604-228-8223) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
20 July, 10PM CDT: Book People (603 N Lamar, Austin, TX 78703; 512-472-5050; www.bookpeople.com) hosts a Harry Potter Celebration.
20 July, 10PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts a party celebrating the release of J.K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with milk and cookies.
21 July, 12:01AM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host a party celebrating the release of J.K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
21 July, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet’s London Megastore (179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JR England; 0207 420 3666; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Tom Lloyd reading and signing The Twilight Herald.
21 July, 10AM EDT: Borders Books and Music (285 Plainfield Rd, W Lebanon, NH; 603-298-9963) hosts Scot R. Stone signing The Hollows of Candlewick.
21 July, 8AM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) will host a party celebrating the release of J.K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
21 July, 4:30PM EDT: Barnes & Noble (1972 Broadway, New York, NY 10023; 212-595-6859) hosts illustrator Mary GrandPré signing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
21 July, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Director Stuart Gordon signing his episode of Masters of Horror: “The Black Cat”.
21 July, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco CA) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
21 July, 8PM EDT: Book Revue (313 New York Ave, Huntington, NY 11743; 631-271-1442; www.bookrevue.com) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
22 July, 2PM EDT: Barnes and Noble (Route 30, Greensburg, PA) hosts Catherine Asaro and Tamora Pierce reading and signing their books.
22 July, 8PM BST: Troy Club (CROBAR, 7 Manette St, London W1D 4AS England) hosts Steve Aylett reading from his work.
22 July, 2PM MDT: Sentry Box (1835-10th Ave SW, Calgary, AB T3C OK2; 403-245-2121) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
22 July, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Ray Harryhausen signing covers of the fiftieth anniversary edition of 20 Million Miles to Earth, which will be released on 31 July.
23 July, 7PM EDT: Partners & Crime (44 Greenwich Ave, New York, NY 10011; 212-243-0440) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
23 July, 7:30PM MDT: Tattered Cover Book Store (1628 16th St, Denver CO 80202; 303-436-9219; www.tatteredcover.com) hosts Warren Hammond discussing and signing KOP.
23 July, 7:30PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA) hosts Richard K. Morgan reading and signing Thirteen.
24 July, 7PM EDT: Barnes and Noble (2245 Richmond Ave, Staten Island, NY 10314; 718-982-6983) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
24 July, 7PM EDT: Barnes and Noble Lincoln Square (1972 Broadway, New York, NY 10023; 212-595-9340) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
24 July, 7PM MDT: McNally Robinson Bookstore (3130 8th St E, Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W8; 306-955-3486) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
24 July, 7PM PDT: Book Passage (51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera CA 94925; 415-927-0960) hosts Ellen Klages reading and signing Portable Childhoods.
24 July, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books (1005 W Burnside, Portland OR) hosts Richard K. Morgan reading and signing Thirteen.
24 July, 7:30PM PDT: The Clarion West Summer Reading Series (at the JBL Theater, 325 Fifth Ave N, Seattle WA 98109; 206-770-2702; directions page) presents Clarion West guest lecturer Samuel R. Delany reading and signing his work.
25 July, 7PM EDT: Politics & Prose (5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008; 202-363-7663) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
25 July, 7PM EDT: Books-A-Million (8301 Concord Mills Blvd, Concord NC 28027; 704-979-8300) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
25 July, 7PM EDT: Barnes and Noble (3102 Northline Ave, Greensboro, NC 27408) hosts Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston reading and signing Invasive Procedures.
25 July, 7PM EDT: Barnes and Noble (Route 30, Greensburg, PA) hosts Tobias Buckell and Wen Spencer reading and signing their books.
25 July, 7PM EDT: Borders Books and Music (80-16 Cooper Ave, Glendale, NY 11385; 718-416-1003) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
25 July, 7:30PM CDT: McNally Robinson Booksellers (1120 Grant Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3M 2A6; 204-453-0424) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
26 July, 7PM EDT: Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard St, Brookline, MA 02446; 617-739-6002) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
26 July, 7PM EDT: Regulator Bookshop (720 9th St, Durham NC 27705; 919-286-2700) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
26 July, 7PM EDT: Quail Ridge Books & Music (3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh, NC 27607; 919-828-1588; web page) hosts Mark L. Van Name talking about how to break into publishing and reading from and signing One Jump Ahead.
26 July, 7:30PM EDT: Just Books (28 Arcadia Rd, Old Greenwich, CT 06870; 203-637-0707; justbooks.org) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
26 July, 7PM PDT: Booksmith (1644 Haight St, San Francisco CA) hosts Richard K. Morgan reading and signing Thirteen.
27 July, 12:30PM EDT: Borders (511 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116; 734-730-0300) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
27 July, 6PM EDT: Pandemonium Books (4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA; www.pandemoniumbooks.com) hosts Sarah Beth Durst reading and signing Into the Wild.
27 July, 7PM EDT: Barnes and Noble (Webster Towne Center, 1070 Ridge Rd, Webster, NY 14580; 585-872-9710) hosts Shannon Miller signing Legends and Destiny: Shonga.
27 July, 6PM CDT: Uncle Hugo’s (2864 Chicago Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55407) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
27 July, 7:30PM EDT: Philadelpahia Fantastic (Barnes and Noble, 1805 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA; www.psfs.org) presents Camille Bacon-Smith reading from and signing her newly released collection, followed, as always, by a pay-as-you-go dinner.
28 July, 2PM PDT: M is for Mystery (86 E 3rd Ave, San Mateo, CA 94401; 650-401-8077) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
29 July, 7:30PM PDT: Capitola Book Cafe (1475 41st Ave, Capitola, CA 95010; 831-462-6297) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
30 July, 12:30PM PDT: Stacey’s Bookstore (581 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94105; 415-896-1606) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
30 July, 6PM CDT: Davis-Kidd Booksellers (Laurel Wood Center, 387 Perkins Rd Ext, Memphis TN 38117; 901-683-9801) hosts Daniel Wallace signing Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician.
30 July, 7:30PM PDT: Books Inc Opera Plaza (1501 Vermont St, San Francisco, CA 94107; 415-643-3400) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
31 July, 7PM EDT: Barnes & Noble (1972 Broadway, New York, NY 10023; 212-595-6859) hosts Jack Ketchum reading and signing Offspring.
31 July, 7PM PDT: Powell’s City of Books (Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR; 503-228-4651) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
1 August, 7PM MDT: Who Else! Books (Denver Book Mall, 32 N Broadway, Denver, CO 80203; 303-733-3808) hosts Emma Bull reading and signing Territory and Will Shetterly reading and signing The Gospel of the Knife.
1 August, 7PM PDT: Third Place Books (17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155; 206-366-3316) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
1 August, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-278-4004; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts: Ellen Kushner signing The Privilege of the Sword and Delia Sherman signing Changeling.
2 August, 7PM EDT: Emma S. Clark Memorial Library (120 Main St, Setauket, NY; www.emmaclark.org) hosts Sarah Beth Durst reading and signing Into the Wild.
2 August, 7:30PM MDT: Tattered Cover (1628 16th St, Denver, CO 80202; 303-436-9219) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
2 August, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Laura Anne Gilman reading and signing Burning Bridges.
3 August, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet’s London Megastore (179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JR England; 0207 420 3666; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Peter F. Hamilton reading and signing The Dreaming Void.
3 August, 7:30PM CDT: Barnes & Noble (10000 Research Blvd, Austin, TX 78759; 512-418-8985) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
3 August, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-278-4004; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts: Jeanne Stein signing Blood Drive.
3 August, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Basil Gogos signing his shirts, lithographs, and his book, Famous Monster Movie Art of Basil Gogos.
4 August, 2PM PDT: Barnes & Noble (1256 Galleria Blvd, Roseville, CA 95678; 916-788-4320) hosts Jeff Carlson reading and signing Plague Year.
4 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Jeanne C. Stein signing Blood Drive and Karen E. Taylor signing Twelve Steps from Darkness.
4 August, 7PM EDT: Quail Ridge Books & Music (3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh, NC 27607; 919-828-7912; www.quailridgebooks.com) hosts Jasper Fforde signing First Among Sequels.
7 August, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105; www.bookstore.washington.edu hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
8 August, 7PM PDT: Borders Books & Music (2508 S 38th St, Tacoma, WA 98409) hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
9 August, 7:30PM PDT: Barnes & Noble (1149 S Main St, Walnut Creek, CA 94596; 925-947-0373) hosts Jeff Carlson reading and signing Plague Year.
10 August, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005; www.powells.com hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
11 August, 12N EDT: Barnes and Noble (125 S Broadway, Rte 28, Salem, NH; 603-898-1930) hosts Scot R. Stone signing The Hollows of Candlewick.
11 August, 1PM EDT: Between Books (2703 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, DE 19703; 302-798-3378; www.betweenbooks.com) hosts the launch of Sails and Sorcery.
11 August, 2PM EDT: Jonesberry Books (Newberry Rd, Tioga Town Center, Jonesville, FL; 352-333-2445; www.jonesberrybooks.com) hosts Joe Haldeman reading from and signing The Accidental Time Machine and A Separate War and Other Stories.
11 August, 1PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-824-8203) hosts Jeff Carlson reading and signing Plague Year.
11 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts the director, Jim Hemphill, and cast—Jared Anderson, Dakota Ferreiro, Angelique Hennessy, Danielle Noble, and T.W. Porrill—signing the DVD of the new horror film, Bad Reputation.
11 August, 8PM EDT: the Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey (meeting at Borders – Paramus, 230 Garden State Plaza, Paramus, NJ; store web site) hosts Sarah Beth Durst as their guest speaker, who will be reading and signing Into the Wild.
11 August, 5PM PDT: Borders Books & Music (7227 SW Bridgeport Rd, Tigard, OR 97224) hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
11 August, 7:30PM PDT: Writers with Drinks in San Francisco at the Make Out Room (3225 22 St, San Francisco CA) hosts Austin Grossman reading and signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
12 August, 12N EDT: the Auditorium on Dr. Dobb’s Island (in Second Life) hosts a talk with Joe Haldeman.
13 August, 7PM PDT: Barnes & Noble (3561 N Freeway Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95834) hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
14 August, 9:30AM EDT: The Space and Missile Defense Conference (at the Van Braun Center in Huntsville, AL; www.smdconf.org/index.php) hosts John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor signing their books.
14 August, 7PM EDT: Barnes & Noble (33 East 17 Street, New York, NY 10003; 212-253-0810) hosts William Gibson reading from and signing Spook Country.
14 August, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
14 August, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Sherrilyn Kenyon signing Devil May Cry.
14 August, 7:30PM PDT: Dawson Public Library (Dawson City, Yukon, Canada) hosts Robert J. Sawyer reading and talking about Rollback.
15 August, 11:30AM EDT: The Space and Missile Defense Conference (at the Van Braun Center in Huntsville, AL; www.smdconf.org/index.php) hosts John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor signing their books.
15 August, 7PM EDT: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading Elizabeth Bear and Michael Kandel.
15 August, 7PM PDT: Variety Children’s Charity (The Variety Preview Room, first floor of The Hobart Building, 582 Market St. at Montgomery, San Francisco, CA; www.sfinsf.org) presents a reading by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert, and Howard Hendrix, followed by a discussion moderated by Terry Bisson.
15 August, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Tom Holland and screenwriter David J. Schow signing Masters of Horror: We All Scream for Ice Cream and director Mick Garris signing Masters of Horror: Valerie on the Stairs.
16 August, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Tom Lloyd signing The Twilight Herald.
16 August, 7:30PM PDT: Books Inc (301 Castro St, Mountain View CA) hosts Austin Grossman signing Soon I Will Be Invincible.
16 August, 7:30PM PDT: Books Inc (2275 Market St, San Francisco CA; www.booksinc.net) hosts Steve Berman reading and signing Vintage: A Ghost Story.
17 August, 7PM PDT: Vroman’s Bookstore (695 E Colorado, Pasadena, CA 91101; www.vromansbookstore.com hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
18 August, 11AM EDT: Barnes and Noble (45 Gosling Rd, The Crossings at Fox, Newington, NH; 603-422-7733) hosts Scot R. Stone signing The Hollows of Candlewick.
18 August, 1PM EDT: Moondance Gifts (518 Main St, Eastport, NY; web site) hosts Sarah Beth Durst reading and signing Into the Wild.
18 August, 2PM PDT: Barnes & Noble (7881 Edinger Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92647) hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
18 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Christa Campbell, Ryan Fleming, Lin Shaye, and Tim Sullivan signing the new graphic novel, 2001 Maniacs Special #1.
18 August, 6PM MDT: Waldenbooks (Provo Town Centre, 1200 Towne Centre Blvd, Provo, UT 84601; 801-852-0015) hosts a pre-release signing with Brandon Sanderson for The Well of Ascension.
19 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert signing Sandworms of Dune.
19 August, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Steve Berman signing Vintage: A Ghost Story and Kat Richardson signing Poltergeist.
21 August, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92111; www.mystgalaxy.com hosts Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert reading and signing Sandworms of Dune.
22 August, 7PM EDT: Flights of Fantasy (488 Albany-Shaker Rd, Loudonville NY 12211; 518-435-9337; www.fof.net) hosts Tobias Buckell signing Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin.
22 August, 7PM EDT: Sarasota News & Books (1341 Main St, Sarasota, FL 34236) hosts Christopher Forrest reading and signing The Genesis Code.
23 August, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Rian Hughes signing Yesterday’s Tomorrows.
24 August, 7:30PM EDT: Philadelpahia Fantastic (Barnes and Noble, 1805 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA; www.psfs.org) presents Drew White reading his work and talking about his Clarion Workshop experience, followed, as always, by a pay-as-you-go dinner.
24 August, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-634-3400; www.bookstore.washington.edu) hosts Jay Lake signing Mainspring and Mark Ferrari signing The Book of Joby.
25 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts A.W. Hill signing The Last Days of Madame Rey.
25 August, 3:30PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite 302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-278-4004; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts: Christopher Forrest signing The Genesis Code.
26 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Christopher Forrest reading and signing The Genesis Code.
27 August, 6:30PM PDT: Latitude 33 (311 Ocean Ave, Laguna Beach, CA 92651) hosts Christopher Forrest reading and signing The Genesis Code.
28 August, 7PM PDT: “M” is for Mystery (86 E Third Ave, San Mateo, CA 94401; www.mformystery.com) hosts Christopher Forrest reading and signing The Genesis Code.
28 August, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-634-3400; www.bookstore.washington.edu) hosts Matt Ruff signing Bad Monkeys
29 August, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet Megastore (179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, England; 020 74203666) hosts William Gibson signing Spook Country.
29 August, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Danielle Harris and Robert Steven Rhine signing the new issue of Girls and Corpses Magazine.
29 August, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle WA 98105; 206-634-3400; www.bookstore.washington.edu) hosts Terry Brooks signing The Elves of Cintra.
30 August, 7PM CST: The Well Red Coyote (3190 W Highway 89A, Suite 400, Sedona, AZ 86336) hosts Christopher Forrest reading and signing The Genesis Code.
4 September, 6:30PM EDT: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at New York’s South Street Seaport Museum (Melville Gallery, 213 Water St) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s readers are Paul Di Fillipo and Norman Spinrad. Most readings are taped for broadcast on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf” radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM. Updates at www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf.
8 September, 4PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts a Doctor Who signing, with three authors signing their books: Paul Magrs signing Sick Building; Mark Michalowski signing Wetworld; and Mark Morris signing Forever Autumn.
8 September, 12N EDT: The Garden State Horror Writers meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Monmouth County Library (125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan, NJ), and is hosting Chris Cevasco (the editor of Paradox Magazine). For more information, see www.gshw.net.
8 September, 1PM EDT: Boxcar and Caboose (394 Railroad St, Unit 2, St Johnsbury, VT; 802-748-3551) hosts Scot R. Stone signing The Hollows of Candlewick.
8 September, 1PM CDT: Barnes and Noble (6600 Menaul Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110; 505-883-8200) hosts Daniel Abraham reading and signing A Betrayal in Winter.
9 September, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts editors Jeff Gelb, Del Howison, and Robert Steven Rhine, and writers Cody Goodfellow, Roberta Lannes, Lisa Morton, and Debbie Lynn Smith signing Dark Passions: Hot Blood XIII and Dark Delicacies.
10 September, 7PM EDT: The Harvard Coop Book Store (Harvard Square, Cambridge MA; harvard.bkstore.com) hosts Joe Haldeman reading from and signing The Accidental Time Machine and A Separate War and Other Stories.
11 September, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Don Calfa, Clu Galager, Brian Peck, Beverly Randolph, Jewel Sheppard, William Stout, and others TBA signing the new collector’s edition of The Return of the Living Dead DVD.
12 September, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Charles de Lint reading and signing Little (Grrl) Lost.
13 September, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts illustrator Gris Grimly signing The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Steve Niles signing 30 Days of Night: Immortal Remains, and Bill Sienklewicz signing any graphic novels customers bring in.
13 September, 8PM EDT: Barbès (376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY) hosts Brian Francis Slattery reading from Spaceman Blues: A Love Sony. There will also be music. Suggested donation: $10.
13 September, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Stuart Gordon signing From Beyond.
13 September, 7PM PDT: Comics Factory (1298 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91106; 626-585-0618; www.comicsfactory.com) hosts Wil Wheaton signing Star Trek The Manga: Kakan ni Shinkou.
14 September, 7:30PM PDT: Meltdown (7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046; www.meltcomics.com) hosts Mark Waid at a release party for Potter’s Field.
15 September, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Clint Langley and Pat Mills signing Slaine: The Book of Invasions.
15 September, 2PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Mike Mignola reading and signing Baltimore, Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire.
15 September, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Michael Cadnum, Ellen Klages, and Pat Murphy signing The Coyote Road.
16 September, 4PM EDT: Books of Wonder (18 West 18 St, New York NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.com) hosts John Berkeley reading and signing The Tiger’s Egg and Melissa Marr reading and signing Wicked Lovely.
17 September, 7PM PDT: The Richard Hugo House (1634 Eleventh Ave, Seattle, WA 98122; web site) hosts Charles de Lint reading and signing his work.
19 September, 7PM EDT: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading from The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet featuring “singing elephants, painting sea lions, chewy fruit snacks, and many readers.” Readers include Jeffrey Ford, Geoffrey Goodwin, Karen Russell, and Veronica Schanoes.
19 September, 8PM PDT: Meltdown (7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046; 323-851-7223; www.meltcomics.com) hosts Wil Wheaton signing Star Trek The Manga: Kakan ni Shinkou.
20 September, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Jamie McKelvie and Kieron Gillen signing Phonogram Volume One: Rue Britannia.
22 September, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Nathan Long signing Manslayer.
22 September, 1PM EDT: Between Books (2703 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, DE 19703; 302-798-3378; www.betweenbooks.com) hosts Danielle Ackley-McPhail, James Chambers, CJ Henderson, and R. Allen Leider signing Bad-Ass Faeries.
22 September, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Mike Mignola signing Baltimore, Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire; Chuck Williams signing Halloween: The Happy Haunting of America 10th anniversary edition DVD; and Johnny Legend signing Halloween in Hell.
23 September, 2PM EDT: Books and Company (The Greene Shopping Center, 4453 Walnut Creek, Beavercreek, OH 45440; 937-429-2169; www.booksandco.com) hosts Joe Haldeman reading from and signing The Accidental Time Machine and A Separate War and Other Stories.
23 September, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts John Skipp signing The Long Last Call and Whitley Strieber signing 2012: The War for Souls.
25 September, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts R.A. Salvatore reading and signing The Orc King.
26 September, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin signing Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Fowl.
27 September, 6:30PM EDT: Cooper Union (7 East 7 St, New York, NY 10003; www.cooper.edu) hosts Jonathan Lethem discussing his work editing Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s and signing.
27 September, 7PM EDT: MIT (Room 6-120, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA 02139) hosts a reading by Joe Haldeman.
27 September, 7PM MDT: Barnes and Noble (8374 Willow St, Lone Tree, CO 80124; 303-706-9660) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians.
27 September, 7PM PDT: The Mountain View Public Library (585 Franklin St, Mountain View, CA 94041; 650-903-6337; web site) hosts Nancy Farmer and Chris Willrich reading from their work. Additionally, free copies of the August 2007 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—which features stories from both readers—will be available.
27 September: Whitehorse Public Library (Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada) hosts Robert J. Sawyer reading and talking about Rollback.
28 September, 7:30PM EDT: The Philadelpahia Science Fiction Society’s Philadelphia Fantastic reading series (Barnes & Noble, 1805 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA; www.psfs.org/events) is hosting a reading and signing for the debut of Natalia Lincoln‘s The Mirror.
28 September, 7:30PM MDT: Tattered Cover (2526 East Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206; www.tatteredcover.com) hosts Whitley Strieber signing 2012: The War for Souls.
29 September, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Mitchel Scanlon signing Descent of Angels.
29 September, 1PM EDT: The Writers Corner (4 W Oakland Ave, Doylestown, PA 18901; 215-230-1070; writerscornerusa.com) hosts Danielle Ackley-McPhail, James Chambers, Vincent Collins, Keith R.A. DeCandido< and Den C. Wilson signing Bad-Ass Faeries.
29 September, 12N MDT: Waldenbooks—Cherry Creek Shopping Center (3000 E 1st Ave, #221, Denver, CO 80206; 303-377-4432) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
29 September, 4PM MDT: Tattered Cover—Highlands Ranch Town Center (9315 Dorchester St, Denver, CO 80129; 303-470-7050) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians.
1 October, 7PM EDT: Barnes & Noble Union Square (33 E 17 St, New York, NY 10003; 212-253-0810) hosts Terry Pratchett reading and signing Making Money.
1 October, 7PM PDT: Borders (2190 N Rainbow Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89108; 702-638-7866) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
2 October, 6:30PM EDT: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at New York’s South Street Seaport Museum (Melville Gallery, 213 Water St) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s special event is a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the airing of Samuel R. Delany‘s “The Star Pit.” Delany will discuss the gensis of the story and the radio drama, and there will be a performance of selections from “The Star Pit.” (See this article for more information on this event.) Most readings are taped for broadcast on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf” radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM. Updates at www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf.
2 October, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
3 October, 7PM PDT: Borders (3700 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA 90503; 310-540-7000) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
4 October, 7:30PM EDT: Pandemonium Books & Games (4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA 02139; 617-547-3721) hosts Judith Berman reading and signing her books.
4 October, 5PM PDT: Borders Express (1050 Shaw Ave, #7A, Clovis, CA 93612; 559-323-8070) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
4 October, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts Whitley Strieber signing 2012: The War for Souls.
4 October, 7PM PDT: Borders (7722 N Blackstone Ave, Fresno, CA 93720; 559-435-5501) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
4 October, 7:30PM PDT: Barnes & Noble, (189 Grove Dr, Hollywood, CA) hosts Wil Wheaton signing Star Trek The Manga: Kakan ni Shinkou.
5 October, 7PM EDT: Tin House hosts a party, reading, and signing at PPOW Gallery (555 W 25 St, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10001; 212-647-1044; www.ppowgallery.com) with authors Lucy Corin, Samantha Hunt, Shelley Jackson, and Kelly Link reading and signing the Fantastic Women issue of Tin House and Corin’s collection The Entire Predicament.
5 October, 7PM PDT: Bay Book Company (Strawflower Shopping Center, 80 Cabrillo Hwy N, Suite F, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019; 650-726-3488) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
6 October, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Simon Spurrier signs Contract.
6 October, 3:30PM EDT: NSS-NYC (at NYU’s Silver Center for Arts & Science, 32 Waverly Pl, New York, NY; web site) hosts Michael Belfiore talking about his book Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space.
6 October, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director John Fasano, writer Cindy Cirile, and actors Julie Adams, Frank Diezt, Carla Ferrigno, and John Martin signing the horror DVD Black Roses.
6 October, 7PM PDT: Comic Bug (1832 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266; 310-372-6704; thecomicbug.com) hosts Wil Wheaton signing Star Trek The Manga: Kakan ni Shinkou.
6 October, 7PM PDT: Barnes & Noble (3561 N Freeway Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95834; 916-285-0387) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
7 October, 1PM: Wave Hill and Poets House (675 W 252 St, Riverdale, Bronx, NY; 718-549-3200; www.wavehill.org) present Thomas Devaney reading selections from Edgar Allen Poe’s verse, and Carol Muske-Dukes talking about how Samuel Langhorne Clemens inspired her new novel Channeling Mark Twain.
7 October, 5PM EDT: Flights of Fantasy Bookstore (488 Albany-Shaker Rd, Loudonville, NY 12211; 518-435-9337; www.fof.net) hosts Judith Berman reading and signing Bear Daughter.
7 October, 2PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts David Brin signing Sky Horizon.
7 October, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts editors Del Howison and Jeff Gelb and writers Peter Atkins, Gary Brandner, Max Brooks, Tananarive Due, Robert Masello, Steve Niles, Joey O’Bryan, and Harry Shannon signing the anthology Dark Delicacies II: Fear.
9 October, 2PM PDT: Borders Express (6157 Sunrise Mall, Citrus Heights, CA 95610; 916-969-7877) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
9 October, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts producer Pennie Orcutt and stars P.J. Soles, Christa Campbell, Philip Creager, Jilon Ghai, Julian Berlin, Jeff Parise, Iyari Limon, and Brandon Largent signing the DVD Death by Engagement; and director Joe Lynch and stars Texas Battle, Erica Leerhsen, Kimberley Caldwell, Aleska Palladino, and composer Bear McCreary signing the DVD Wrong Turn 2—Dead End.
9 October, 7PM MDT: Barnes & Noble (6600 Menaul Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110; 505-883-8200) hosts Stephen R. Donaldson signing Fatal Revenant.
9 October, 7PM PDT: the Central Coast Writers’ Group meeting at the American Legion Hall (1661 Mill St, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401) hosts Jeff Carlson speaking and signing Plague Year.
10 October, 7PM EDT: Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (126 Crosby St, New York, NY; 212-334-3324; www.housingworks.org) presents novelists Samantha Hunt and Shelley Jackson and poets Matthew Lippman and Dennis Nurkse at a joint reading.
10 October, 7PM PDT: Third Place Books (17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park, WA 98155; 206-366-3316) hosts Stephen R. Donaldson signing Fatal Revenant.
10 October, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005; 503-352-0665) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
11 October, 8PM EDT: Borders (230 Garden State Plaza, Paramus, NJ 07652; 201-712-1166) hosts F. Paul Wilson reading and signing Bloodline.
11 October, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (990 102nd Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004; 206-634-3400) hosts Stephen R. Donaldson signing Fatal Revenant.
11 October, 7PM PDT: Borders Express (8700 NE Vancouver Mall Dr, Vancouver, WA 98662; 360-892-6677) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
12 October, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105; 206-634-3400) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
12 October, 7:30PM PDT: Powell’s City of Books (2720 NW 29th Ave, Portland, OR 97210; 502-228-4651) hosts Stephen R. Donaldson signing Fatal Revenant.
13 October, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Terry Pratchett signing Making Money.
13 October, 12N EDT: The Garden State Horror Writers meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Monmouth County Library (125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan, NJ), and is hosting John Urbancik. For more information, see www.gshw.net.
13 October, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet’s London Megastore (179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8JR England; 0207 420 3666; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Terry Pratchett reading and signing Making Money.
13 October, 1PM PDT: Barnes & Noble (5711 Main St SW, Lakewood, WA 98499; 253-983-0852) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
13 October, 2PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Ste 302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747) hosts Stephen R. Donaldson signing Fatal Revenant.
13 October, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Dean Lorey signing Nightmare Academy; and director Jeff Broadstreet, writer Robert Valding, and stars Brianna Brown and Greg Travis signing the DVD Night of the Living Dead 3D
13 October, 3:30PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Dennis McKiernan signing Once Upon a Dreadful Time.
14 October, 2PM MST: Poisoned Pen (4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Ste 101, Scottsdale, AZ 85251; 480-947-2974) hosts Stephen R. Donaldson signing Fatal Revenant.
15 October, 7PM MDT: Borders (350 N Milwaukee St, Boise, ID 83704; 208-322-6668) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
15 October, 7:30PM MDT: Tattered Cover (2526 E Colfax, Colfax, CO 80206; 303-322-7727) hosts Stephen R. Donaldson signing Fatal Revenant.
16 October, 4PM MDT: Waldenbooks (Pine Ridge Mall, 4155 Yellowstone Ave, Pocatello, ID 83202; 208-237-9785) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
16 October, 7PM MDT: Barnes & Noble (Grand Teton Mall, 2300 E 17 St, Suite 1101, Idaho Falls, ID 83404; 208-552-1452) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
17 October, 6:30PM EDT: The Nashville Public Library (615 Church St, Nashville TN 37219; 615-862-5853) hosts Sherrilyn Kenyon, who will be reading from and signing her newest book, The Dream-Hunter.
17 October, 7PM EDT: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by F. Paul Wilson and Thomas Tessier.
17 October, 7PM MDT: Borders (1050 N Main St, Logan, UT 84341; 435-787-0678) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
18 October, 7PM EDT: Ocean County Library (101 Washington St, Toms River, NJ 08753; 732-349-6200) hosts F. Paul Wilson reading and signing Bloodline.
18 October, 8PM EDT: Cocoa Bar Park Slope (228 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215) hosts Natalia Lincoln reading from and signing The Mirror.
18 October, 7PM MDT: Barnes & Noble (1780 Woodland Park Dr, Layton, UT 84041; 801-773-9973) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
19 October, 7PM MDT: Barnes & Noble (7157 South Plaza Center Dr, West Jordan, UT 84084; 801-282-1324) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
20 October, 1PM MDT: Barnes & Noble (University Crossings Plaza, 330 E 1300 S, Orem, UT 84058; 801-229-1611) hosts Brandon Sanderson signing Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians and The Well of Ascension and David Farland signing Worldbinder.
20 October, 1PM PDT: The Other Change of Hobbit (2020 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704; 510-848-0413; www.otherchangeofhobbit.com) hosts Jeff Carlson reading and signing Plague Year.
20 October, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Cerina Vincent signing Return to House on Haunted Hill and Kelli Maroney signing Night of the Comet.
22 October, 12N EDT: Borders Books and Music at Time Warner Center (10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019; 212-823-9775) hosts editor Arthur Levine and authors Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Margo Lanagan, Linda Sue Park, and Tim Wynne-Jones discussing and signing their collaborative novel Click.
22 October, 7:30PM EDT: Hendrix College (Reves Recital Hall, Conway, AR) hosts a talk and reading by Joe Haldeman.
22 October, 7PM PDT: The Richard Hugo House (1634 Eleventh Ave, Seattle, WA 98122; web site) hosts John Crowley reading and signing his work.
25 October, 7PM EDT: Eagle Eye Book Shop (2076 N Decatur Rd, Decatur, GA 30033; 404-486-0307) hosts F. Paul Wilson reading and signing Bloodline.
26 October, 4PM PDT: The Big Read/Redmond Regional Library (15990 NE 85 St, Redmond, WA 98052; 425-885-1861) hosts F. Paul Wilson reading and signing Bloodline.
26 October, 7:30PM EDT: The Philadelpahia Science Fiction Society’s Philadelphia Fantastic reading series (Barnes & Noble, 1805 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA; www.psfs.org/events) is hosting a reading and signing by Michael Swanwick, followed, as always, by a pay-as-you-go dinner.
26 October, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Sarah Langan signing The Missing.
26 October, 7PM PDT: University Books (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105; 206-634-3400) hosts F. Paul Wilson reading and signing Bloodline.
27 October, 2PM BST: Borders (203-207 Oxford St, London W1, England; 0207 292 1600) hosts Elisabeth Sladen signing the audio Dr. Who books The Glittering Storm and The Thirteenth Stone.
27 October: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England; www.forbiddenplanet.com) hosts Stephen R. Donaldson signing Fatal Revenant.
27 October, 12N EDT: Books of Wonder (18 West 18 St, New York, NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.com) hosts author Gary Schmidt reading and signing The Wednesday War; author Gordon Korman reading and signing Schooled, and illustrator Jon Buller discussing and signing Faradawn and Travels of Thelonius.
27 October, 3PM EDT: Books of Wonder (18 West 18 St, New York, NY 10011; 212-989-3270; www.booksofwonder.com) hosts four fantasy authors from down under: Margo Lanagan, Justine Larbalestier, Garth Nix, and Scott Westerfeld will be signing their books, and joined by Australian editor Jonathan Strahan.
27 October, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts F. Paul Wilson signing Bloodline; Wayne Barlowe signing God’s Demon; and Rueben Martinez signing his sketchbook The Afterlife.
28 October, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA; 415-824-8203; www.borderlands-books.com) hosts F. Paul Wilson signing Bloodline.
29 October, 7:30PM PDT: Books Inc. (301 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041; 650-428-1234) hosts F. Paul Wilson reading and signing Bloodline.
30 October, 7PM EDT: McNally Robinson (52 Prince St, New York, NY 10012; 212-274-1160; www.mcnallyrobinsonnyc.com) hosts editor Delia Sherman and contributors Veronica Schanoes, Matt Cheney, and K. Tempest Bradford reading from and signing Interfictions.
30 October, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005; 503-352-0665) hosts F. Paul Wilson reading and signing Bloodline.
31 October, 7PM EDT: Flights of Fantasy (488 Albany-Shaker Rd, Loudonville NY 12211; 518-435-9337; www.fof.net) hosts David Drake reading from and signing his novels.
1 November, 7PM EDT: LASTSFA and Flights of Fantasy Bookstore (488 Albany-Shaker Rd, Loudonville, NY 12211; 518-435-9337; www.fof.net), in concert with this year’s World Fantasy Convention, hosts Lois McMaster Bujold, Esther Friesner, James Alan Gardner, Charlaine Harris, Toni Kelner, and Caroline Stevermer.
1 November, 7PM EDT: Barnes & Noble Chelsea (675 Sixth Ave, New York, NY) hosts Clive Barker reading and signing Mister B. Gone.
1 November, 7PM EDT: Barnes & Noble Union Square (33 E 17 St, New York, NY 10003; 212-253-0810) hosts Philip Pullman signing The Golden Compass.
3 November, 11AM PDT: Travis Air Force Base Main Exchange (461 Sky Master Circle, Bldg 648, Travis AFB, CA 94535; 707-437-4633) hosts Jeff Carlson signing Plague Year.
3 November, 2PM MDT: The Book Rack (1801 South College Ave, Fort Collins, CO 80525; 970-484-7898; www.bookrackfortcollins.com hosts Warren Hammond reading and signing Kop.
4 November, 5PM EST: Flights of Fantasy (488 Albany-Shaker Rd, Loudonville NY 12211; 518-435-9337; www.fof.net) hosts Elizabeth Bear, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, David Lunde, Patricia McKillip, Sarah Monette, Holly Phillips, and Delia Sherman.
5 November, 6PM EST: Forbidden Planet (840 Broadway, New York< NY) hosts Gary Wassner reading and signing Revenge of the Elves.
6 November, 6:30PM EST: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at New York’s South Street Seaport Museum (Melville Gallery, 213 Water St) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s readings will be a tribute to Avram Davidson. Most readings are taped for broadcast on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf” radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM. Updates at www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf.
6 November, 6:30PM CST: Kalamazoo Public Central Library (315 S Rose St, Kalamazoo, MI 49007; 269-342-9837; web site) hosts Delia Sherman.
7 November, 7PM CST: Kazoo Books (2413 Parkview, Kalamazoo, MI 49008; 269-553-6506; web site) hosts Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman reading and signing their books.
10 November, 12N EST: The Garden State Horror Writers meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Monmouth County Library (125 Symmes Rd, Manalapan, NJ), and is hosting Ellen Datlow (the editor of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror). For more information, see www.gshw.net.
10 November, 1PM EST: Between Books (2703 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, DE 19703) hosts editor Mike McPhail and authors Danielle Ackley-McPhail, CJ Henderson, and Lawrence M. Schoen reading and signing Breach the Hull.
10 November, 3PM EST: LASTSFA and Flights of Fantasy Bookstore (488 Albany-Shaker Rd, Loudonville, NY 12211; 518-435-9337; www.fof.net) hosts Jackie Kessler.
10 November, 2PM PST: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Josh Conviser reading and signing Empyre.
10 November, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts actor/writer Michael Boatman signing his collection God Laughs When You Die and writer/director Jeff Brookshire and Michelle Jarabelo Brookshire, Aurora Corcuera, Jeremy Jones, Paul Dion Monte, Lindsey Morris, Michael Robert Nyman, and Nate Witty signing the new zombie film Awaken the Dead.
11 November, 5PM EST: Housing Works (126 Crosby St, New York, NY 10012; 212-334-3324) hosts editor Steve Berman and writers Eric Andrews-Katz, Rick Bowes, Tom Cardamone, Cassandra Clare, Ruby deBrazier, Craig Gindley, Victoria McManus, and Sean Meriwether reading from So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction.
11 November, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts artists Brett Armstrong, , David Hartman, Mike Sosnowski, William Stout, Christophe Vacher, and possibly others signing Spectrum 14: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.
12 November, 7PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Tim Sullivan signing the DVD of his new movie, Driftwood.
13 November, 7PM PST: The Booksmith (1644 Haight St, San Francisco CA 94117; 415-863-8688; www.booksmith.com) hosts Rudy Rucker reading and signing PostSingular.
13 November, 7PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Richard Schenkman and John Billingsly, William Katt, Richard Riehle, Alexis Thorpe, and others signing Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth.
14 November, 7PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Jeff Thomas and Gigi Bannister, Reggie Bannister, R.A. Mihailoff, and Richard Van Vleet signing Fallen Angels.
15 November, 7PM EST: The Voracious Reader Bookstore (1997 Palmer Ave, Larchmont, NY 10538; 914-630-4581;web site) hosts Ellen Kushner reading and signing The Golden Dreydl.
15 November, 6:30PM PST: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Clive Barker reading and signing Mister B. Gone.
15 November, 7PM PST: Borders Books (900 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805-899-3668) hosts Josh Conviser reading and signing Empyre.
16 November, 7PM PST: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Michael Reaves reading and signing Star Wars: Death Star.
17 November, 12N EST: Barnes & Noble Cortlandt Town Center (3089 E Main St, Route 6, Mohegan Lake, NY 10547; 914-528-6275) hosts Carole McDonnell reading and signing Wind Follower.
17 November, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Deborah LeBlanc signing Morbid Curiosity; Sarah Langan signing The Missing; Alexandra Sokoloff signing The Harrowing; and Chad Michael Ward signing Ausopsyrotica and Devilengine.
17 November, 5PM PST: Barnes and Noble (567 N Stephanie, Henderson, NV 89014) hosts Terry Goodkind reading and signing Confessor.
18 November, 2PM EST: The National Yiddish Book Center (1021 West St, Amherst, MA 01002; 413-256-4900; web site) hosts Ellen Kushner reading and signing The Golden Dreydl.
18 November, 2PM PST: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Keith Jones reading and signing Mayan Key.
18 November, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Kim Paffenroth signing Dying to Live and Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero’s Visions of Hell on Earth; and Alex Boese signing Elephants on Acid and Other BIzarre Experiments.
19 November, 7PM PST: The Richard Hugo House (1634 Eleventh Ave, Seattle, WA 98122; web site) hosts John Kessel reading and signing his work.
21 November, 7PM EST: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by Lucius Shepard and Matthew Cheney.
24 November: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) celebrates its 13th annivesary with cake, free movie posters, and a free goodie bag for each adult.
28 November, 7PM EST: The World’s Biggest Bookstore (20 Edward Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1C9, Canada) hosts Dean Koontz signing via LongPen Brother Odd.
30 November, 7PM EST: Quail Ridge Books & Music (3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh, NC 27607; 919-828-1588; www.quailridgebooks.booksense.com) hosts Orson Scott Card reading and signing A War of Gifts.
30 November, 7PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts comic writers Geoff Johns, Steve Niles, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Dan Wickline signing their comics.
1 December, 11AM-2PM PST: The Main PX at the US Army Presidio of Monterey (4235 Gigling Rd, Old Military Community, CA 93944; 831-899-3281) hosts Jeff Carlson signing Plague Year.
1 December, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Clive Barker signing Mister B. Gone.
2 December, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Richard Matheson signing I Am Legend and Richard Christian Matheson signing Created By.
2 December, 2PM PST: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Antonio Vianna reading and signing Haunted Memories.
3 December, 3PM PST: Borders Books (243 Maddona Rd, San Luis Obispo, CA 93405; 805-544-8222) hosts Josh Conviser reading and signing Empyre.
4 December, 6:30PM EST: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at New York’s South Street Seaport Museum (Melville Gallery, 213 Water St) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month’s readers are SJ Tucker and Catherynne M. Valente. Most readings are taped for broadcast on Jim Freund’s “Hour of the Wolf” radio program on WBAI 99.5 FM. Updates at www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf.
5 December, 7PM EST: Quail Ridge Books & Music (3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh, NC 27607; 919-828-1588; web site) hosts Orson Scott Card reading and signing A War of Gifts.
7 December, 7PM PST: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; www.mystgalaxy.com) hosts Celia May Hart signing One More Time; J.V. Jones signing A Sword from Red Ice; Theresa Schwegel signing Person of Interest; and Jeanne Stein signing The Watcher.
8 December, 3PM CST: BookPeople (603 N Lamar, Austin, TX 78703; 512-472-5050; www.bookpeople.com) hosts Michael Moorcock and John Picacio signing The Metatemporal Detective.
8 December, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts a musical program, with composers. Donald Rubinstein will be signing the soundtrack from George Romero’s vampire movie Martin; Paul Hertzog signing Bloodsport; Jim Manzie signing Film Music of Jim Manzie, Volume 1 and Volume 2; and Phillip Lambro signing Film Music of Phillip Lambro.
8 December, 7PM EST: Rocketship (208 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY 11201) hosts Fletcher Hanks and Paul Karasik discussing and signing I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks.
11 December, 7PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Ernest Dickerson and writer Mick Garris signing the Masters of Horror episode “The V-Word” on DVD.
13 December, 7PM PST: Borders Books (7000 Market Place Ave, Goleta, CA 93117; 805-969-1370) hosts Josh Conviser reading and signing Empyre.
15 December, 1PM EST: BookEnds (232 E Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450; 201-445-0726; www.book-ends.com) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
15 December, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Chelsea Quinn Yarbro signing Borne in Blood and The Lost Prince.
15 December, 5PM PST: Borders (1445 W Sunset Rd, Henderson, NV 89014) hosts Terry Goodkind signing Sword of Truth: Confessor.
16 December, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Adam Green and actors John Carl Buechler, Richard Riehle, and Parry Shen signing the DVD Hatchet.
18 December, 7PM EST: YM-YWHA of North Jersey (One Pike Dr, Wayne, NJ 07470) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
19 December, 7PM EST: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.lcrw.net/kgb) hosts a reading by Christopher Barzak and Naomi Novik.
20 December, 5:30PM MST: Explore Booksellers (221 E Main St, Aspen, CO 81611; 970-925-5336) hosts Josh Conviser reading and signing Empyre.
22 December, 1PM EST: BookEnds (232 E Ridgewood Ave, Ridgewood, NJ 07450; 201-445-0726; www.book-ends.com) hosts Bill Evans reading and signing Category 7.
29 December, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Christopher Andrews signing Pandora’s Game and The Darkness Within; and Charlie Huston signing Half the Blood of Brooklyn.