Out and About

In between my writing duties -- I'm deep into my eighth book right now, the first Stride novel since THE BURYING PLACE -- I'll be making a handful of stops around the Midwest this fall to meet with readers.

You can look for me in Angola, Indiana and Ann Arbor, Michigan (for the Kerrytown Book Festival) on the weekend of September 10-11. Then I'll be in Stevens Point, Wisconsin later in September. In October, I have two stops in Minnesota at libraries in Cambridge and New Prague. All the details are on the Events page of my web site.

If you're located in the upper Midwest, and you'd like me to visit your area, be sure to stop by your local library and ask them to extend an invitation. I try hard to travel as widely as I can and visit new areas. If it's within easy driving distance, I can often add it to my roster.

The trick about touring for authors these days is that it's mostly on our own dime. So the airfare, rental car, hotel, food, etc. -- we pay for all those expenses ourselves. As a result, it takes me a while to get to places that are outside the Midwest. Over the past six years, I've visited Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas, Arizona, and California...so I do get around! If I haven't made it to your area yet, just be patient with me, and I'll try to get there. (And I'll try to make it back to places I've visited in the past, too.)

Meanwhile, I'll have more details soon about the release dates of book seven in 2012!