author events

A Virtual ALA Event

This will be the second ALA in a row that I’ve missed due to the COVID pandemic. It’s a conference I always enjoyed going to: a great fusion of my work as a librarian and my work as an author. I got to catch up with librarians and publishers from across the country, going to presentations, doing author signings, and have a grand time. I’m hopeful next year I can go back with a vengeance, especially since this year, I would have been able to go and promote THE PERFECT PLACE TO DIE. Thankfully my publisher, Sourcebooks, arranged for a

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A Report on MLA Annual

Sorry for the lack of posts the last few days. I was off at the annual Maine Library Association conference at Sunday River. This year we had a pre-conference as well, so it’s been a very busy weekend. Thankfully, it’s also been relatively stress-free, since we’ve got such a great conference committee running things. If you would have asked me six years ago, when I was just getting involved with MLA, if the time would ever come when running a conference for 185 people over three days wouldn’t have felt like that big of a deal, I would have said

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Fiction Faculty at Longfellow Young Writers’ Workshop

Great news today, folks. I’ve been asked to be on the faculty for this year’s Longfellow Young Writers’ Workshop at the University of Maine at Farmington. What’s that, you say? It’s a week-long writing camp for high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors. It’s here at the university where I work as library director, and I’m really excited to be able to branch out a bit and dip my toes back into the teaching of writing scene. Back in the day, when I was at BYU, I completed all the requirements for a Masters of English in Creative Writing. Took all

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Sign Up for My Author Email List

It occurred to me Friday that I really ought to have an author email list. An easy way for fans to sign up to get updates from me about my writing and my books. Yes, there’s this blog, and I keep it up to date, but it’s requires you to be an active participant. You have to go looking for my page to find out what I’ve been up to, and even once you’ve found it, it’s not like I write updates all the time. You’d have to sort through the posts to find the latest and greatest. If you

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Book Signing Next Week!

Just wanted to make sure all you lovely people out there knew that I’ll be at Barnes & Noble next Saturday (the 17th) from 1-3pm in Augusta, signing pretty much anything you put in front of me. In fact, if you bring something particularly noteworthy or unusual for me to sign, I’ll bring some prizes to hand out. But you’ll have to say the magic phrase. Of course, this means I need to come up with a magic phrase. Something no one’s going to guess . . . We’ll make it so that it’s something longtime fans would know. Let’s

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