Author Appearances New Listings, 28 March 2000: • Neil Gaiman works the till to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and reads from American Gods (Avon, October), 8 April in Los Angeles • Ellen Datlow and Pat Cadigan appear at a Computers and Writing conference in Ft. Worth TX, 27 May • Rudy Rucker and Pat Murphy appear at Booksmith, San Francisco CA, in June and August Conventions Updated Listing, 28 March 2000: • Corrected dates, added membership info, for www.octocon.com (October 2000) (October Conventions) Author Appearances New Listings, 17 March 2000: • Eileen Gunn reads in Philadelphia, 24 March, as part of Philadelphia Fantastic • At Dangerous Visions (Sherman Oaks CA) in March and April: Sean Stewart, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Terry Pratchett, et al • At Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego CA) in March and April: Sean Stewart, Guy Gavriel Kay, Nancy Holder, et al Author Appearance New event for tomorrow, 12 March 2000: • F. Brett Cox will be interviewed on ''Black Warrior Radio'' by Andy Duncan; Cox will discuss his role as Director of the Alabama Center for Literary Arts and read from his own fiction. The show will be broadcast on March 12, 2000 from 9-10 pm CST on WVUA 90.7 FM in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and can be accessed via http://www.webradio.com (select WUVA, Tuscaloosa, AL from the side navigation bar and click 'hear.here'). Author Appearance Late Notice for tonight, 4 March 2000: • Author and screenwriter Curt Siodmak, at age 97 the oldest working member of the Writers Guild, appears tonight at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 7:30, for a screening of the 1929 German film People on Sunday, a collaboration between Siodmak, his brother Robert, and directors Fred Zinnemann and Billy Wilder. Siodmak is best known in SF for his 1943 novel Donovan's Brain, filmed three times, once in 1953 under the same title. Author Appearances New Listings, 1 March 2000: • Lucius Shepard and Jack Womack read in New York City, 9 March • Four more Paul Levinson dates in March, April, May • Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith sign in Lincoln City OR this coming Sunday, 4 March Author Appearances Update, 14 February 2000: • The Feb. 23rd event at Other Change of Hobbit, with Pat Murphy, Freddie Baer, Ellen Klages, and Debbie Notkin celebrating the new James Tiptree Jr. collection, has been CANCELLED and will be rescheduled. Author Appearances New Listings, 10 February 2000: • Lucius Shepard and Joyce Carol Oates read at the KGB Bar in Manhattan, 16 Feb; part of the Fantastic Fiction reading series hosted by Terry Bisson and Alice Turner • Diana Paxson, Sean Stewart, Terry Pratchett appear at Other Change of Hobbit (Berkeley CA) in March and April • Guy Gavriel Kay appears at White Dwarf Books (Vancouver BC Canada), 30 Mar • A large signing event is being arranged as part of Nebula Awards weekend in NYC for 19 May at the Barnes & Noble near Union Square; specific authors tbd Author Appearances New Listings, 28 January 2000: • Jack McDevitt is on tour in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina; Feb - Mar • Howard V. Hendrix is at Borderlands (San Francisco CA) 12 Feb • Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have two east coast signings in Feb Conventions Updated Listings, 26 January 2000: • ConTreaty, November 2000 in The Netherlands, has a new website (November Conventions) Author Appearances New Listings, 17 January 2000: • Stephen Jones, Basil Copper, Brian Lumley, Kim Newman and others, at the Upstairs Bar at The Princess Louise Pub in London, 4 Feb • Pat Murphy, Freddie Baer, Ellen Klages, Debbie Notkin celebrate the new Tiptree collection at Other Change of Hobbit (Berkeley CA), 23 Feb • Paul Levinson has yet more dates, Jan - Apr Conventions New Listings, 17 January 2000: • Added listing for Eos Con III, online real-time con on 29 Jan (January Conventions) • Updated info for Potlatch 9 (February Conventions) Author Appearances New Listings, 7 January 2000: • More Sherry Gottlieb dates in California, Jan and Feb • Brian Jacques appears at Gene's Books (King of Prussia PA) Jan 19 • Asimov's Chats on SciFi.com in January and February include Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Paul Levinson, etc. Conventions New Listing, 7 January 2000: • Twilight Terrors, Sept. 28 - Oct. 1 (September Conventions) New Listing, 5 January 2000: • AggieCon 31, March 23-26 (March Conventions) Forthcoming Books • J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament is tentatively scheduled for US/UK July 8th publication (July 2000 Books) • Several recently-sold titles added to 2000 - 2001 Books page Author Appearances New Listings, 4 January 2000: • The Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz reading at Dixon Place, Jan 13th, has been cancelled • The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings have been moved from Dixon Place to New York Performance Works; Karen Joy Fowler and Kelly Link appear there Feb 17th • Terry Pratchett appears at DreamHaven (Minneapolis MN) March 29 • Charles L. Grant tour through New Jersey and Pennsylvania begins January 22nd