Author Readings and Signings: February-March 2010

Here are the appearances we know about for the first three months of 2010. We’ll add in new ones as we hear of them. For future events, see other files in our Readings & Signings section.
Authors, artists, bookstores, publishers: if you have appearances planned that we don’t know about, drop us a line (use the “Contact Us” link at the top of this page), and we’ll add them to our list.


6 February, 12N PST: Fort Lewis Base (Bldg 5280, 41st Division, Fort Lewis, WA 98433) hosts Robin Hobb reading and signing Dragon Keeper.
10 February, 7PM CST: Caroline Kennedy Library (Dearborn Heights, MI) hosts Joss Ware reading and signing Embrace the Night Eternal.
12 February, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts John Meaney (aka Thomas Blackthorne) signing Edge and Aliette de Bodard signing Servant of the Underworld.
12 February, 7PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Michael Shea signing The Extra and Copping Squid and Other Mythos Tales.
13 February, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts screenwriter Karl Alexander signing Time after Time, both the novel and the DVD.
16 February, 7PM EST: Riverrun Bookstore (20 Congress St, Portsmouth, NH 03801) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
16 February, 6:30PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Max Brooks and Aimee Bender signing The New Dead: A Blockbuster Collection of Original Zombie Tales.
17 February, 7PM EST: Barnes & Noble (1741 S Willow St, Manchester, NH 03103) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
17 February, 7PM EST: 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 Peter Straub and Daryl Gregory.
18 February, 7PM EST: Gibson’s Bookstore (27 S Main St, Concord, NH 03301) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
19 February, 6:30PM EST: Toadstool Bookshop (586 Nashua St, Milford, NH 03048) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
20 February, 1:30PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts actor James Purefoy signing the DVD of Solomon Kane.
20 February, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Breck Eisner signing and giving away The Crazies posters.
21 February, 3PM EST: Cornerstone Books (45 Lafayette St, Salem MA 01970) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
22 February, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman signing posters for the theatrical performance of Ghost Stories.
22 February, 7PM EST: Porter Square Books (25 White St, Cambridge, MA 02140) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
23 February, 7PM EST: Odyssey Bookshop (9 College St, South Hadley, MA 01075) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
24 February, 7:30PM EST: New Canaan Library (151 Main St, New Canaan, CT 06840) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
25 February, 7PM EST: Barnes & Noble (2289 Broadway at 82nd St, New York, NY 10024) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
26 February, 7PM EST: Book Revue (313 New York Ave, Huntington, NY 11743) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
26 February, 7:30PM EST: 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 Victoria Janssen.
27 February, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts Pat Mills and Clint Langley signing ABC Warriors: The Volgan War Volume 2.
27 February, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts composer Bear McCreary signing his CDs Battlestar Galactica: The Plan/Razor and Dark Void: Original Video Game Score, and composer Ryan Shore signing his CD Confessions.
1 March, 7PM EST: Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Southside Works (2705 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA 15203) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
2 March, 6:30PM EST: The New York Review of Science Fiction reading series at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art (138 Sullivan St, New York, NY) presents readings on the first Tuesday of each month. This month is guest curated by Joe Monti, and features readings by L.A. Banks and Tobia Buckell. 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 March, 7PM PST: University Book Store (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
3 March, 5PM EST: Baco Cafe (71 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY) hosts Sarah Micklem reading and signing Wildfire.
3 March, 7:30PM PST: Powell’s Books (1005 W Burnside, Portland, OR 97209) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
4 March, 7:30PM PST: Booksmith (1644 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
5 March, 7PM PST: Book Passage (51 Tamal Vista Blvd, Corte Madera, CA 94925) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
6 March, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts Amber Benson signing Cat’s Claw.
8 March, 7PM EST: Water Street Books (125 Water St, Exeter, NH 03833) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
9 March, 7PM EST: Borders (430 Gorham Rd, South Portland, ME 04106) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
9 March, 7PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts director Harry Bromley Davenport, Sean Young, and Barbara Bain signing the DVD Haunted Echoes: A Ghost Story.
10 March, 6PM EST: Borders (116 Bangor Mall Blvd, Bangor, ME 04401) hosts Joe Hill reading and signing Horns.
11 March, 7PM CST: Schuler’s Books (Lansing, MI) hosts Joss Ware reading and signing Embrace the Night Eternal.
12 March, 7PM: Johns Hopkins University (Parsons Auditorium, Applied Physics Lab, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd, Laurel, MD 20723) hosts a reading and concert by Catherine Asaro, accompanied by pianist Keith Miller.
12 March, 7PM CST: Borders Books & Music (Lohr Rd, Ann Arbor, MI) hosts Joss Ware reading and signing Embrace the Night Eternal.
13 March, 1PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts Alastair Reynolds signing Terminal World.
13 March, 3PM CST: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (1441 W Webster Ave, Chicago, IL) hosts Joss Ware reading and signing Embrace the Night Eternal.
16 March, 6:30PM EDT: The UConn Co-op (2075 Hillside Rd, Unit 1019, Storrs, CT 06269, bookstore.uconn.edu) hosts SFScope Editor Ian Randal Strock talking about and signing The Presidential Book of Lists.
17 March, 7PM EDT: KGB Fantastic Fiction Series, presented by Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel (KGB Bar, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY; www.darkdel.com) hosts Jack Ketchum signing his books and DVDs and Donald Glut signing Brothers Blood.
21 March, 2PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. signing the graphic novel Kick Ass and the movie companion book Kick Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie.
23 March, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts Kelley Armstrong signing special advance copies of Frostbitten.
24 March, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts Scroobius Pip signing Poetry in (E)motion.
25 March, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts Mike Carey signing The Unwritten.
26 March, 6PM BST: Forbidden Planet (179 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8JR, England) hosts Brian and Wendy Froud signing The Heart of Faerie Oracle.
26 March, 7:30PM EDT: The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society’s Philadelphia Fantastic reading series (The Moonstone Arts Center, 110 A S. 13th St, Philadelphia PA) is hosting its monthly reading followed, as always, by a pay-as-you-go dinner. This month will feature Darrell Schweitzer and Greg Frost.
27 March, 2PM PST: Dark Delicacies (4213 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505; 818-556-6660; www.darkdel.com) hosts writer/directorKevin Hamedani and Jennette Armand signing the DVD Zombies of Mass Destruction.
30 March, 12N EDT: The UConn Co-op (2075 Hillside Rd, Unit 1019, Storrs, CT 06269, bookstore.uconn.edu) hosts Keith R.A. DeCandido talking about and signing Star Trek: The Next Generation: Q & A.
30 March, 7PM PDT: University Bookstore (4326 University Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105) hosts Patricia Briggs reading and signing Silver Borne.
31 March, 7PM PDT: Powell’s Books (Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton, OR 97005) hosts Patricia Briggs reading and signing Silver Borne.