New Listings 6 December 2002 include: • Kelly Link opens for Future Bible Heroes at the Mercury Lounge in Manhattan, tomorrow evening Saturday 7 December • Bakka bookstore in Toronto hosts a launch party for The Bakka Anthology of new stories by past and present Bakka employees -- Robert J. Sawyer, Nalo Hopkinson, Tanya Huff, and others -- celebrating the store's 30th anniversary; 19 December • William Gibson signs Pattern Recognition in San Francisco, 7 Feb 2003 New Listings 5 December 2002 include: • Spectrum 9 signing in Burbank CA postponed from 7 Dec to 21 Dec • Carol Emshwiller reads in NYC this weekend • Joe Haldeman signs in Cambridge MA this weekend, and in Gainesville FL on 22 Dec • A launch party for Mary Sangiovanni's Under Cover of Night, this weekend in NYC New Listings 1 December 2002 include: • Michael Crichton is on tour, beginning Monday 2 Dec • Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman sign in MA and PA • F. Paul Wilson and Sarah Smith read at KGB Bar in NYC, 18 Dec • Robert Jordan signs his latest novel in January, in (so far) San Diego CA and Milford NH New Listings 9 November 2002: • Kelly Link reads at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft NJ on Thursday, 14 Nov • Michael Walsh holds a launch party for Old Earth Books' reprints of Edward Whittemore's novels, Monday 11 Nov in NYC • Brian A. Hopkins, Tippi N. Blevins, and Allen Steele appear online on Cybling.com this month • The British Fantasy Society holds its Christmas Open Night, with guests Liz Holliday and Ben Jeapes, 13 Dec in London New Listings 6 November 2002: • Lots more events at Dark Delicacies in Burbank CA, including Gahan Wilson this Saturday 9 Nov, William F. Nolan on 23 Nov, a bunch of Spectrum 9 artists on 7 Dec, and Don Glut and others on 14 Dec. • New listings for Jeff Berkwits, Robert Jordan, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, John Platt, and Nancy A. Collins; see by Author listings for details New Listings 22 October 2002 include... • DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis is hosting several signings with World Fantasy Convention guests of honor and other writers, beginning Wed 30 Oct; visit their webpage for the complete list and late additions • Jonathan Carroll's tour for White Apples begins at World Fantasy Con, and continues through November across the US; Carroll, and Ellen Kushner, read at the KGB Bar in New York City, 20 November • Harlan Ellison signs the anniversary edition of Dangerous Visions at two California locations in November, and reads a new story at one of them New Listings 4 October 2002: • Lisa Goldstein, Jefef Mariotte, and Pat Murphy appear tonight at Dark Carnival in Berkeley; Brian Froud, Jonathan Carroll, and Harry Turtledove are there in a few weeks • Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre, and Syne Mitchell conduct a 'Special Clarion West Fall Reading' at the University of Washington, 24 Oct. • Jonathan Carroll and Tee Morris read at the Library of Congress in November New Listings 28 September 2002: • Hugo nominated fan writer Jeff Berkwits (and Locus Online contributor) appears tonight on RadioScifi, midnight; Anne McCaffrey and John Flynn are there 6 Oct. • Ariel Cinii, an SF/media filker gone pro, performs in New York City, 13 Oct (info) • R.A. Salvatore's tour for his latest Forgotten Realms novel, runs 15-27 Oct, from MN to IL to KS to TX New Listings 20 September 2002 include...: • Michael Moorcock signs in Berkeley CA this Sunday, 22 Sept. • Jeff VanderMeer reads in New Orleans, 25 & 26 Oct. • Additional dates for Allen Steele, Cheslea Quinn Yarbro, Whitley Strieber, Nancy Holder, Tamara Thorne • New England Horror Writers Association event in Burlington MA, 25 Oct, includes Stanley Wiater, Jeffrey Thomas, and a host of others New Listings 16 September 2002: • Pat Murphy, Peter S. Beagle, and Dave Smeds sign at the Borderlands Books table at the Sonoma County Book Fair in Santa Rosa CA, 21 Sept. • Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson are at the Borderlands store in San Francisco, 23 Sept. • Stanley Schmidt signs recent books in Danbury CT, 29 Sept. • Dave Duncan and Sean Russell sign in Alberta and British Columbia, late Oct. to early Nov. New Listings 9 September 2002 include... • Additional Terry Brooks dates • Carol Emshwiller reads October 2 in Brooklyn New Listings 4 September 2002 include... • John Kessel, Andy Duncan, Karen Joy Fowler and others chat online about Fowler's controversial Sci Fiction story What I Didn't See, 12 Sept. • Garth Nix tours the UK for new book Sabriel beginning 17 Sept. • The Herbert/Anderson Dune franchise will be in Seattle, 17 and 18 Sept. • Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Charles Wilson, Phyllis Gotlieb and other local writers appear at Toronto's "The Word on the Street" open-air book festival, 29 Sept. • Dark Delicacies in Burbank CA has a busy schedule for the next three months, hosting Clive Barker, Jonathan Carroll, David Skal, Fred Saberhagen, and others; additional signings by movie and music folks are included on the store's events page • Jody Lynn Nye does several Halloween readings in the Chicago area, October • James Patrick Kelly and Allen Steele sign in New Hampshire, Oct. and Nov. New Listings 23 August 2002 include... • August: Robert Hood signs in Parramatta, NSW Australia, this Sunday, 25 August • KGB Bar, NY: Lupoff and Swanwick are there 18 Sept; Clegg and Cacek 16 Oct • SciFi.com/Asimov's/Analog chats: themes are poets and Fall authors in Sept, the writing life in Oct, new books and artists in Nov, with Boston, Haldeman, Asaro, Kushner & Sherman, and Harman, among others • Dixon Place, NY: Irvine and Klasky on 14 Oct, Springer, Robins, and Wein on 11 Nov • October: David Weber tours the South, for War of Honor • Plus new listings for Balfour, Hopkins, Chalker, Kotani, Moestra, Herbert & Anderson New Listings 7 August 2002 include... • Juliet Marillier, Kate Forsyth, China Miéville sign in Sydney this month • Pat Murphy helps celebrate Tachyon Publications 7th anniversary party at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, 17 August • Borderlands hosts a Meisha Merlin event with authors Lee Killough, George R.R. Martin, Mark Tiedemann, and others, 3 September • Brian A. Hopkins signs in Oklahoma City, 24 August • Raymond E. Feist tours the UK, September • Two more Orson Scott Card dates in September • Clive Barker signs in San Francisco, 14 October New Listings 21 July 2002 include... • Jeffrey Ford reads this Friday, 26 July, in Philadelphia; later "Philadelphia Fantastic" readings are by Kelly Link in Sept, Madeleine Robins in Oct • Neal Hallford & Jana Hallford sign in Santa Monica on Saturday, 27 July • Dan Simmons and Sean Russell appear at Mysterious Galaxy (San Diego CA) in August • Judith Berman and Katherine Vaz read at the KGB Bar (NYC) in August • Allen Steele and John Morressy sign in New Hampshire, August and November New Listings 12 July 2002 include... • China Miéville speaks at the Library of Congress, 16 July • Pat Murphy signs at the 7th Annual Celebration of Independent Bookselling, an outdoor fair in San Francisco, 20 July • Robert Newcomb signs at Del Rey's booth at ComicCon, 2 and 4 August; David Gemmell is there on the 3rd • Robert McCammon signs in Alabama, 9 Sep; John Saul is in Honolulu the same day • Big Terry Brooks tour begins 19 Sep New Listings 5 July 2002 include... • New dates next week for Paul Levinson, Michael Swanwick, and Karen Michalson • Online Asimov's Chat with Rick Wilber and students, 9 July • Big Orson Scott Card tour for Shadow Puppets beginning 19 August, the book's publication date • Trey Barker opens Green River Books in Princeton IL with 30 July appearances by Richard Chwedyk, Tina Jens, Nick Pollota, and others • Dark Delicacies (Burbank CA) hosts Nancy Holder, Harry Shannon, Bruce Campbell, and numerous others in July, August New Listings 16 June 2002 include... • Rachel Pollack and Constance Ash read at the KGB Bar in NYC this Wednesday, 19 June • Douglas Rushkoff launches his new book at The Slipper Room, NYC, Wednesday, 19 June • Ellen Datlow, Katherine Vaz, and Michael Cadnum sign in San Francisco, Saturday 22 June • Neil Gaiman reads Coraline in its entirety at the West Coast launch event, 2 July in Berkeley; an East Coast launch (no reading) follows 11 July in NYC • David Brin signs in San Diego, 13 July • The Peoria Public Library celebrates the 50th anniversary of Philip Jose Farmer's The Lovers, 10 August • Brian Froud is booked in San Francisco for 30 October