I wish I could be a good blogger. Good bloggers blog a lot, nearly every day. I know myself well enough to know that I can’t keep up. (Plus, I’m writing a new book!) But I will occasionally park some news here.
Some recent and upcoming events:
Loft Literary Center - Young Adult Writing Conference (appearing with fellow Chicagoans Julie Halpern, Claire Zulkey and M. Molly Backes), Minneapolis, MN, April 28-29, 2012
Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago, February 29-March 2, 2012
National Council of Teachers of English, author panel, Chicago, November 19, 2011
ALAN Workshop, author panel, Chicago, November 21-22, 2011
Chicago Public Library Hall Branch, book club discussion, October 12, 2011
DePaul University Summer Writing Conference, Chicago, July 15-17, 2011
American Library Association annual conference, New Orleans, LA, June 24-28, 2011
Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books, Waukesha, WI, June 18, 2011
Printers Row Lit Fest, Chicago, IL, June 4-5, 2011
23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards, New York City, May 26, 2011
Mayor Daley's Book Club Spring Conference, Chicago, IL, Lane Tech H.S., May 14, 2011
Lambda Literary Award, finalists reading, Gerber-Hart Library, Chicago, May 3, 2011
31st Annual Northern Illinois University Children's Literature Conference, March 11, 2011
Anderson's Bookshop 9th Annual Children's Literature Breakfast, February 19, 2011
Chicago Public Library, Chinatown Branch, Teen Volume book discussion, Thursday, December 16, 2010, 4:00 pm
Chicago Public Library, Lincoln Park Branch, Teen Volume book discussion, Thursday December 2, 2010, 6:30
Chicago Tribune story on Love Drugged, November 2, 2010
WGN Radio's "Sunday Papers" with Rick Kogan, October 31, 2010
PFLAG meetings in Chicago and suburbs
BOOK SIGNING at Borders in Lincolnwood - Saturday, September 18 from 2-4 pm. Please note: This event will be held at the Borders located at 6103 N. Lincoln Avenue, not at the Borders on State Street, as reported in Time Out Chicago. Please call the store for event details (773) 267-4822.
Anderson's Bookshop 7th Annual Young Adult Literature Conference, Saturday, Sept 25, Arista Hotel, Naperville, IL
At the end of June, I signed advance copies of Love Drugged at the annual conference of the American Library Association in Washington, DC.
In July, I was on the faculty of the 2010 DePaul Summer Writing Conference in Chicago, IL.
Also starting in August: You can read an interview about Love Drugged's path to publication in the 2011 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. (By the way, if you like to write, and you’re interested in publishing your work, this book is an excellent resource for finding places to send your fiction: magazines, literary journals, online publications—or to agents and editors who may be interested in your work. I have been buying this book FOREVER. Seriously, I could probably insulate my house with old editions. Check it out!)