Upcoming Events and Appearances
Lorain County Libraries
Monday, February 13, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Skype Visit Main Library
Part of the Winter Teens' Writing Workshop
Preregistration is required by calling the Main Library at 440-244-1192 or 1-800-322-READ, ext. 449.
Baxter County (AR) Library
Skype Visit
Tuesday, February 21, 5-6 p.m. CST
Contact: Mandy Walters 580-0987 x 2003 miranda.w@baxlib.org
RT Booklovers Convention Teen Day, Chicago
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Hyatt Regency O'Hare Hotel
9300 Bryn Mawr Avenue
Rosemont, IL 60018
(847) 696-1234
http://www.rtconvention.com/teen-day
The New England SCBWI Regional Convention
Friday-Sunday, April 20-22, 2012
Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place
(413) 781-1010
One Monarch Place
Springfield, Massachusetts 01144
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1033118
Kent State Reading and Writing Festival
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Presenting Fantasy Writing Workshop
Ohioana Book Festival
May 12, 2012, 10 am - 4:30pm
Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center
546 Jack Gibbs Blvd.
Columbus, OH 43215
http://ohioanabookfestival.org/
Rochester Teen Bookfest (TBF Live!)
May 19, 2012
Rochester, NY
http://www.teenbookfestival.org/
Past Events - 2012

With my Montgomery Teen Bookfest Assistants, e.g. posse |

Click poster for full size, use back to return |
Montgomery County Teen Bookfest
January 21, 2012
The Woodlands, TX (Houston area) |

Fort Bent County Five! This group came all the way from Ft. Bent County, TX. |

With authors Melody Carlson, Patrick Jones, Joseph Hayes, Belle Whittington, Melissa Studdard, Gayle Forman |
Past Events - 2011
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Manchester High School
Nov. 16, 2011 |
Cinda Chima and author Patrick Rothfuss |
World Fantasy Convention
October 27-31, 2011
Town and Country Resort and Convention Center
500 Hotel Circle North
San Diego, CA 92108
http://www.wfc2011.org/html/mainmenu.html |

The Importance of the Journey Panel, Bruce McAllister, Bernard Dukas, Cinda Chima, David Coe |

The panel, including Karen Healey, Cinda Chima, Malinda Lo, Greg van Eekhout, Holly Black, Cindy Pon, along with library staff and friends |

Cinda and Holly Black |
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Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Oceanside, CA
Author Reading and Signing Event
With Cinda Williams Chima, Garth Nix, and Sean Williams
Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 6-8 p.m.
El Camino North Shopping Center
2615 Vista Way
Oceanside, CA 92054
760-529-0106 |
 Cinda, Garth Nix, Connie Sol from B&N, Sean Williams |
 Colton and Cinda |
 Ryan and Colton |
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Vista Academy
Vista, CA
Wed. Oct 26, 2011 |
Christina Wald, Cinda, Liz Coley, Tricia Springstubb, and Nancy Roe Pimm at the author reception |
Cinda with a fan at Books by the Banks |
Books by the Banks Bookfest
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Duke Energy Convention Center
http://booksbythebanks.org/ |
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Cuyahoga County Library Chagrin Falls Branch
Writing Workshop: Worldbuilding, Elements of Fantasy Writing
October 20, 2011, 6-8 p.m.
100 East Orange Street
Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022-2799
phone 440-247-3556
Writing workshop at the Chagrin Falls Library
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OELMA Annual Conference
Ohio Educational Library Media Association
October 13-14, 2011
Columbus, OH Convention Center
http://www.oelma.org/Conference.htm
At Authorpalooza, OLEMA |
 With Matthew Daniels, Savanna Wells, Liz Adkins |
 Nobody likes to sit in the front row |
Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library
Magic on the Page: Writing Young Adult Fantasy
Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 7 p.m.
3512 Darrow Road Stow, OH 44224
330-688-3295 |
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Jessamine and Caro saw the trailer in the theatre and bought the books! |
Chapters Booksellers
Appearance and Signing
Wed., Sept. 28, 7 pm
20015 Langley By-Pass,
Unit 115
Langley, British Columbia V3A 8R6 Canada
(604) 514-8663 |
Secret Garden Bookshop
and school events
2214 NW Market St Seattle, WA 98107
Monday, Sept 26, Time TBD
http://www.secretgardenbooks.com/
With Grant, a fan from Washington High School. |
McClure Middle School, Seattle area. Suzanne Perry of Secret Garden Books introduced me. |
Northshore Middle School, Seattle area |
Jane Addams Middle School, Seattle area |

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Hood River County Library
Author Appearance and Signing
Sunday, Sept 25, 2 p.m.
502 State St
Hood River, OR 97031
Booksellers and friends at Hood River County Library, Jenny Cohen, of Waucome Books, Jamie Miller, Starla Scheiss, Cinda, Angela Hanson, of Klindt's Booksellers, Jennifer Jansen Anderson. |
With Shelley (Bella) Bunnell |
Powell’s Books
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Beaverton, OR 97005
Saturday, Sept 24, 4 pm http://www.powells.com/ |
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Kenilworth Junior High School
Petaluma, CA |
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At Copperfield's Books, Petaluma, CA. The middle girl is named Raisa. |
With Ruby, a fan, at Copperfield's Books |
Copperfield's Books
Thursday, Sept 22
Petaluma, CA |
At the Menlo Park Library |
Cinda with Natasha of Back to Wonderland |
Menlo Park Library
800 Alma Street Menlo Park, CA 94025
Thursday, Sept 22, 7 pm www.menloparklibrary.org/ |
Carien Hoogwater interviewed me for The Denver Post |
Chris began with The Warrior Heir |
Tattered Cover Book Store
2526 East Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80206
Wednesday, Sept 21, 7 pm www.tatteredcover.com |
With Courtney Lowe, Library Community Relations Director, aka Fiona Bayar |
The awesome Courtney Lowe of Provo City Library made this amulet for me! |
Provo City Library
550 North University Avenue
Provo, UT 84601
Tuesday, Sept 20, 7 pm www.provolibrary.com/ |
With blogger extraordinaire Emily of Emily's Reading Room |
Signing Emily's books |
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Watermark Books and Cafe
4701 E. Douglas Wichita, KS 67218
Monday, Sept 19, 6 pm
http://www.watermarkbooks.com/ |
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Allison Middle School
Mon. Sept. 19, 2011
Wichita, KS |
Korbyn's dog ate his book! |
Elyria Public Library West River Branch
Magic on the Page: Writing Young Adult Fantasy
Saturday, September 10, 1 p.m.
1194 West River Rd.
North Elyria, Ohio 44035
440-324-2270 |

Panel session at DragonCon |
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Draco, Cinda, and author Rachel Caine |
DragonCon
September 2-5, 2011
Atlanta, GA
http://www.dragoncon.org/ |
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Barnes & Noble, Alpharetta, GA
Author Appearance and Signing
Thursday, September 1, 7 p.m.
Mansell Crossings Shopping Center
7660 Northpoint Parkway, Suite 200
Alpharetta, GA 30022 |
River Bend Writing Project
Writing Workshop via Skype
June 21, 2011
University of Southern Indiana
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Bay Middle School
Writing Workshops
Bay Village, OH |

Doerre MS |

Strack MS |
Klein ISD School Visits
May 10-11, 2011
Klein, TX (Houston area) |
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Highland Park ISD School Visits
May 11-12, 2011
Highland Park, TX
(Dallas area) |
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Barnes & Noble Booksellers,
Houston, TX
Author Visit and Signing
May 10, 2011, 6 p.m.
5303 FM 1960 West
Houston, TX 77069 |
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Northeast ISD School Visits
May 5-6, 2011
San Antonio, TX
YA A to Z Conference
Panelist and Signings
April 15-16, 2011
Hyatt Regency, Austin, Tx
http://writersleague.org

Panel session with authors James Dashner, Greg Taylor, Jordan Sonnenblick, Melissa Kantor, and Helen Frost |

The Gray Wolf Throne ARCs were a hot commodity in the Hyperion booth. |

At the TLA Teen Mingle |
Texas Library Association Meeting
Lone Star Panel and TT4L Teen Events
April 14-16, 2011
Austin, TX |
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Menlo Park Academy
April 1, 2011
Cleveland, OH |

Crocker Park Barnes & Noble, Westlake, OH
Four-Author Craft Discussion and Signing Event
Saturday, March 5, 2011, 1 p.m.
198 Crocker Park Boulevard, Westlake, OH 44145 (440) 250-9233
I joined authors S. Andrew Swann, Linda Robertson, and Mary Ellis for a discussion of the craft of writing and the road to publication. We write everything from historical werewolf tales and science fiction, to Amish Romance, to Young Adult Fantasy, to Urban Fantasy. Collectively, we have published more than thirty-five books.
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Sherman Public Library Author Fest
January 24, 2011
Sherman Public Library and Piner Middle School
421 N. Travis
Sherman, TX 75090
Left: SPLAT members (Sherman Public Library Advisory Teans) prepping for my visit to Sherman Public Library and Piner Middle School |
Frisco, TX School District
School visits
January 18-21, 2011
Florida SCBWI Regional Conference
January 14-16, 2011
Miami, FL
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