This is a list of Author Readings & Signings that have already passed in the second half of 2008. 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. There is also this page with Readings & Signings that took place in 2007, and this page for past events in the first half of 2008.
2 July, 6:30PM MDT: Sundance Bookstore (1155 W Fourth St, #106, Reno, NV 89503; 775-786-1188; sundancebookstore.com) hosts a group reading/signing for several Hadley Rille anthologies (including Ruins: Metropolis, Barren Worlds, and Desolate Places) featuring Willis Couvillier, Susan Palwick, and others.
9 July, 7:30PM EDT: Barnes & Noble Greenwich Village (396 Ave of the Americas, New York, NY) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
10 July, 5PM EDT: Books of Wonder (18 W 18 St, New York, NY 10011; 212-989-3270; booksofwonder.com) hosts five teen authors: Anna Godbersen reading and signing Rumors; J.M. Steele reading and signing The Market; Rachel Vail reading and signing Lucky; Suzanne Weyn reading and signing Reincarnation; and F. Paul Wilson reading and signing Jack: Secret Histories
11 July, 7PM EDT: Pandemonium Books (4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
12 July, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110) hosts Jay Lake reading and signing Escapement.
15 July, 7PM EDT: Free Library of Philadelphia (1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, PA) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
16 July, 7PM EDT: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.sensesfive.com/kgb.php) hosts a reading by John Kessel and JoSelle Vanderhooft.
16 July, 7PM EDT: Borders (5871 Crossroads Center Way, Baileys Crossroads, VA [metro Washington, DC]) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
17 July, 7PM EDT: Creatures ‘n Crooks Bookshoppe (3156 W Cary St, Richmond, VA) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
17 July, 8PM EDT: Happy Endings Lounge (302 Broome St, New York, NY; 212-334-9676; happyendinglounge.com) hosts “In the Flesh” monthly reading series of erotic writings curated by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Among the readers is Susan Wright reading from A Pound of Flesh. Other readers include D.L. King, Samara O’Shea, Scott Pomfret, and Rachel Shukert.
18 July, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Caralos Batts and actors April Flores and La Cholita signing the “first ever live action erotic comic film, Kiss Attack. The story centers on five deadly beauties spawned by Vlad Drakul.”
19 July, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Adrienne Barbeau signing Vampyres of Hollywood.
22 July, 6:30PM EDT: The National Press Club (529 14th St NW, Washington, DC) hosts Harry Turtledove reading and signing The Man with the Iron Heart.
22 July, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
23 July, 7PM EDT: Ellen Datlow hosts a reading to benefit the Shirley Jackson Awards at KGB Bar (85 East 4th St, New York, NY; kgbbar.com) with readers F. Brett Cox, Jeffrey Ford, Jack Ketchum, Carrie Laben, John Langan, Sarah Langan, Peter Straub, David Wellington, and Jack Womack. For more information, see this article.
23 July, 8PM EDT: Barnes and Noble (Route 30, Greensburg, PA) hosts David Barr Kirtley and Tamora Pierce reading and signing their books.
23 July, 7:30PM CDT: Borders Books & Music (1500 16th St, Suite D, Oak Brook, IL) hosts Harry Turtledove reading and signing The Man with the Iron Heart.
23 July, 5:30PM PDT: Dark Carnival (Berkeley, CA) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
24 July, 7PM EDT: Books & Co. (4453 Walnut St, Dayton, OH) hosts Harry Turtledove reading and signing The Man with the Iron Heart.
24 July, 7PM PDT: University Books (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105) hosts Jay Lake reading and signing Escapement.
25 July, 7:30PM EDT: The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society’s Philadelphia Fantastic reading series (Robin’s Bookstore, 108 S. 13th St, Philadelphia PA; robinsbookstore.com) is hosting its monthly reading followed, as always, by a pay-as-you-go dinner. This month will feature Gardner Dozois, Tom Purdom, and Michael Swanwick.
26 July, 2PM MDT: Rediscovered Bookshop (7079 Overland Rd, Boise, ID 83709; 208-376-4229; rdbooks.org) hosts Mary Ellen Martin and Ken McConnell signing Barren Worlds.
26 July, 2PM PDT: Mystery & Imagination Bookshop (238 N Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91203; mysteryandimagination.com) hosts Jude-Marie Green, Shauna Roberts, and Andrew Tisbert signing Barren Worlds and Ruins: Metropolis.
26 July, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA) hosts Harry Turtledove reading and signing The Man with the Iron Heart.
28 July, 6PM PDT: Secret Headquarters (3817 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA) hosts Nate Denver and Zak Sally performing their music and signing their comics and books.
28 July, 7PM MST: Changing Hands (6428 S McClintock Dr, Phoenix, AZ) hosts Karen Traviss reading and signing Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
28 July, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4325 University Way NE, Seattle, WA) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
29 July, 7PM CDT: Borders Books & Music (5500 Greenville Ave, Dallas, TX) hosts Karen Traviss reading and signing Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
29 July, 6PM PDT: Needles and Pens (3253 16th St, San Francisco, CA) hosts Nate Denver and Zak Sally performing their music and signing their comics and books.
29 July, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
29 July, 7PM PDT: Pleasant Hill Borders (120 Crescent Dr, Pleasant Hill, CA) hosts Jeff Carlson reading and signing Plague War.
29 July, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Hans Rodionoff signing his comic series Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs and Lost Boys: The Tribe; Charles Durning, Kenneth Del Vecchio, Brooke Lewis, Mark Belasco, and Eric Etebari signing the horror film Kinky Killers; and Jeff Buhler signing Clive Barker’s Midnight Meat Train posters.
30 July, 7PM EDT: Wordsmith Books (545 N McDonough, Decatur, GA) hosts Karen Traviss reading and signing Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
30 July, 8PM EDT: Freaks Read at Nowhere (322 E 14 St, New York, NY) is a monthly reading series focusing on unusual fiction and poetry, this month featuring Linda Addison, Amy Grech, Matthew K. Johnson, and Charlie Vazquez.
31 July, 7PM EDT: Borders Books (10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY) hosts Karen Traviss reading and signing Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
31 July, 6PM PDT: The Pony Club (625 NW Everett St, #105, Portland, OR) hosts Nate Denver and Zak Sally performing their music and signing their comics and books.
1 August, 7PM EDT: Cornerstone Books (45 Lafayette St, Salem MA 01970; 978-744-1831; cornerstonebooks-salem.com) hosts Jennifer Pelland discussing publishing and signing Unwelcome Bodies.
1 August, 6PM PDT: Danger Room Comics (Columbia and Fourth, Olympia, WA) hosts Nate Denver and Zak Sally performing their music and signing their comics and books.
2 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Whitley Strieber and Craig Spector signing The Nye Incident and 2012; Ryan Schifrin signing his graphic novel series Spooks; and Lalo Scifrin signing Mission Impossible: My Life in Music.
2 August, 6PM PDT: Roseville Barnes & Noble (1256 Galleria Blvd, Roseville, CA) hosts Jeff Carlson reading and signing Plague War.
2 August, 6PM PDT: Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery (1201 S Vale St, Seattle, WA) hosts Nate Denver and Zak Sally performing their music and signing their comics and books.
3 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Steven Rhine, Kevin Klemm, Darren Frydendall and models Faye Reagan, Brooke Brown, and Brendah Budhram signing the Summer issue of Girls & Corpses Magazine.
5 August, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105; 800-335-7323; link) hosts Kat Richardson reading and signing Underground.
6 August, 3PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA) hosts Jeff Carlson reading and signing Plague War.
6 August, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; mystgalaxy.com) hosts Nalo Hopkinson reading and signing The New Moon’s Arms.
7 August, 7PM MDT: Tattered Cover (2526 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206; 303-322-7727; tatteredcover.com) hosts Joe Haldeman reading and signing Marsbound.
7 August, 7:30PM MDT: Tattered Cover (2526 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206; 303-322-7727; tatteredcover.com) hosts Kat Richardson reading and signing Underground.
7 August, 6:30PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; mystgalaxy.com) hosts Orson Scott Card reading and signing Keeper of Dreams.
8 August, 7PM EDT: Desert Island (540 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY; 718-388-5087; desertislandbrooklyn.com) hosts a launch party for Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes, as well as a panel discussion about Hayes featuring Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith, Geoffrey Hayes, and Dan Nadel.
8 August, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Sherrilyn Kenyon signing Acheron.
9 August, 2PM EDT: Pandemonium Books (4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA 02139; 617-547-3721; pandemoniumbooks.com) hosts a signing of Ruins: Metropolis.
9 August, 3PM MDT: The Book Mine (522 Harrison Ave, Leadville, CO) hosts Jeff Carlson reading and signing Plague War.
9 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Harry Shannon, Harry Manfredini, Kathryn Bates, Yossi Sasson, Gillian Shure, and Dan Crawley signing the new horror film Dead and Gone, as well as the novel Dead and Gone.
12 August, 12N PDT: Seattle Mystery Bookshop (117 Cherry St, Seattle, WA 98104; 206-587-5737; seattlemystery.com) hosts Kat Richardson reading and signing Underground.
12 August, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4325 University Way NE, Seattle, WA) hosts Greg Bear reading and signing City at the End of Time.
14 August, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books (3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005; 503-228-4651; powells.com) hosts Kat Richardson reading and signing Underground.
15 August, 7PM PDT: Borders Union Square (400 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94102; 415-399-1633) hosts Kat Richardson reading and signing Underground.
15 August, 7:30PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts John Saul signing Faces of Fear and Devil’s Labyrinth.
16 August, 4PM EDT: Midtown Comics (200 W 40 St, New York, NY; midtowncomics.com) hosts Mark Millar, and Tony Harris signing the first issue of their new series, War Heroes.
16 August, 2PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; link) hosts Kat Richardson reading and signing Underground.
16 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Kevin Manthie, Christopher Drake, and Robert J. Kral signing the CDs Justice League: New Frontiers Batman: Gotham Knight, and Superman Doomsday; and Lolita Tirmanis, Kristopher Carter, and Michael McCuiston signing the CD Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo.
17 August, 4PM PDT: Barnes & Noble (7881 Edinger Ave, #110, Huntington Beach, CA 92647; 714-897-8781) hosts Kat Richardson reading and signing Underground.
18 August, 5:30PM PDT: Dark Carnival (3086 Claremont Ave, Berkeley, CA) hosts Greg Bear reading and signing City at the End of Time.
19 August, 7PM CDT: Anderson’s Bookshop (123 W Jefferson Ave, Naperville, IL) hosts Naomi Novik reading and signing Victory of Eagles.
19 August, 7PM PDT: Borderlands Books (866 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA) hosts Greg Bear reading and signing City at the End of Time.
20 August, 7PM EDT: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.sensesfive.com/kgb.php) hosts a reading by James Patrick Kelly and Jeff Somers.
20 August, 7PM EDT: McNally Jackson Booksellers (52 Prince St, New York, NY; 212-274-1160; mcnallyjackson.com) hosts Owen King, John McNally, Kelly Braffet, Lauren Grodstein, and Scott Snyder discussing and signing Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories.
20 August, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA) hosts Greg Bear reading and signing City at the End of Time.
21 August, 7PM CDT: Barnes & Noble (2100 N Snelling Ave, Roseville, MN 55113; 651-639-9256) hosts Kat Richardson reading and signing Underground.
21 August, 7PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; mystgalaxy.com) hosts Debra Ginsberg reading and signing The G(r)ift.
21 August, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Warwick Davis signing his DVDs (he is Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies; the Leprechaun in the Leprechaun movies; Willow Ufgood in Willow; Marvin in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; and Wicket in Star Wars: Episode VI).
22 August, 7:30PM EDT: The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society’s Philadelphia Fantastic reading series (Robin’s Bookstore, 108 S. 13th St, Philadelphia PA; robinsbookstore.com) is hosting its monthly reading followed, as always, by a pay-as-you-go dinner. This month will feature Paul Levinson.
22 August, 7PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Joe R. Lansdale reading and signing Leather Maiden and The Drive-In.
24 August, 2PM PDT: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Adam Wingard, writer E.L. Katz, and actors Jeff Dylan Graham, Tiffany Shepis, Bill Moseley, and Tom Towles signing horror DVD Home Sick, and director Don Glut and actors Del Howison, Monique Parent, Jakeline Olivier, Cindy Pucci, Tony Clay, Susan Brock, Brink Stevens, Ange Maya, James Meyer, and Sagreb de la Torre signing the vampire horror DVD Blood Scarab.
26 August, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA) hosts Terry Brooks reading and signing The Gypsy Morph.
27 August, 6:30PM PDT: Barnes & Noble (2600 Southwest Barton, Suite E-1, Seattle, WA) hosts Terry Brooks reading and signing The Gypsy Morph.
3 September, 7:30PM EDT: Borders Books & Music (5871 Crossroads Center Way, Baileys Crossroads, metro Washington, DC) hosts Terry Brooks reading and signing The Gypsy Morph.
4 September, 6:30PM EDT: The Fountain Bookstore (1312 E Cary St, Richmond, VA) hosts Terry Brooks reading and signing The Gypsy Morph.
5 September, 7:30PM EDT: Quail Ridge Books & Music (3522 Wade Ave, Raleigh, NC) hosts Terry Brooks reading and signing The Gypsy Morph.
6 September, 2PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; mystgalaxy.com) hosts Margaret Coel reading and signing Blood Memory.
6 September, 6PM EDT: Charlotte Literary Festival (Charlotte Convention Center, 501 S College St, Charlotte, NC) hosts Terry Brooks reading and signing The Gypsy Morph.
6 September, 4PM PDT: Mysterious Galaxy (7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, Suite #302, San Diego, CA 92111; 858-268-4747; mystgalaxy.com) hosts S.M. Stirling reading and signing Scourge of God.
8 September, 6:30PM EDT: Carpe Librum Booksellers (5113A Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN) hosts Terry Brooks reading and signing The Gypsy Morph.
9 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, New York, NY) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This special reading is in honor of NYRSF‘s twentieth anniversary, and will feature David Hartwell, Kevin Maroney, Gordon Van Gelder, Theresa Nielsen-Hayden, and Patrick Nielsen Hayden. 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.
9 September, 7PM CDT: Casa Manana (3101 W Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth, TX) hosts Terry Brooks reading and signing The Gypsy Morph.