SPELLWRIGHT Book Tour!
Dearly Beloved You People: Should you want to be dazzled by the light glinting off my head, hear me read, see me get nervous about signing books while talking at the same time, here’s the present calendar for the Spellwright DIY Tour. (For updates you can check back here or watch my blog.)
March 14th, 2:00pm: Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, CA (event page)
- A wonderful wonderful indie book store. If you’re anywhere near SD, you have to stop by and meet the ppl who work there.
- N.B. Daylight Savings Time begins on that day, be sure to adjust your clocks!
- So far, this is the only event planed in SoCal. I’ll be LA for a few days before hand. Should you happen to be a bookseller, reading club, person who sometimes wonders what it would be like to play D&D with Bill Shakespeare and Chris Marlowe (answer: gratuitously awesome!) drop me a comment here and we’ll hang out.
March 19th, 7:30pm: Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, CA (event page)
- This’ll be the big hometown event. Introduction by my mentor, the wonderful Dr. Abraham Verghese. Come meet Stanford Medicine folks, my high school Latin teacher, &c, &c.
March 27th, 3:00pm: Borderlands Books, San Francisco, CA
April 7th, 7:30pm: Books Inc., Mountain View, CA
April 8th, 5:00pm: Medicine & the Muse, Stanford, CA
- Come see other local talent and me headline for keynote speaker Malcolm Gladwell!
April 17th, 7:00pm: SF in SF, San Francisco, CA
- I’m honored to read with the charming, witty, best-selling Steampunk Princess Gail Carriger. The two of us are old writing friends and scheming for a ridiculous and hilarious performance. SF in SF might never recover!
April 21st, 7:30pm: Clayton Books, CA
Comments
17 Responses to “SPELLWRIGHT Book Tour!”
Scott Marlowe
6:45 am Feb-24-2010
I used to live in Menlo Park and hang out at Kepler’s and the coffee shop next door (is the coffee shop still there?). Alas, that was a long time ago, so unless you’re planning on widening your tour I’ll not get to participate.
blakecharlton
9:51 am Feb-24-2010
it’s a wonderful indie, in’nit? don’t know if you heard, but a few years back the rising rent prices forced it out of business. the local community was so upset the rallied to create a non-profit to keep it afloat. would that all indie booksellers were so lucky. the coffee shop next door (Barrone) is still doing a hopping business & is a great place to read or write. let me know if you swing through town again. because alas, the economy being what it is, money and time for long book tours it seems are not in the cards. hoping to extend it as long as possible.
edifanob
9:33 am Feb-24-2010
You lucky people in California. I’m envious.
I hope you will be some day in Germany.
blakecharlton
9:52 am Feb-24-2010
so do i! i’ve been to germany only once, when i was 8 years old. i had no idea what was happening. i’d be thrilled to go back 🙂
edtambini
11:31 am Feb-24-2010
any dates for the phoenix area?
blakecharlton
1:00 pm Feb-24-2010
sadly no, which is too bad. it would take (i think) a local bookseller to express interest. then i could make the bald-many-puppy-eyes (the large white dome helps) to the publisher and ask if they can help me fly out there. so perhaps mention it to your local SFF bookstore? i’ll keep my fingers crossed 😀
Linda Hubbard Gulker
12:33 pm Feb-24-2010
Blake, interested in interviewing you for our hyperlocal blog InMenlo in connection with your Kepler’s visit.
Please contact me. Thanks. Linda
wulfsiege
6:03 am Feb-25-2010
I don’t see Australia on the list… most disappointing 🙁 Its what publishers are for isn’t it, getting you free tickets to other countries so you can go on a book tour alcohol fuelled bender? Sort of reminds me of what would happen when my company would send me places.
blakecharlton
11:59 am Feb-25-2010
Sadly, no, Australia is not on the list. I was really hoping to get to World Con this year. But the hop across the Pacific is just too dear, sadly. And, you are indeed correct, authors are generally blown wherever the winds of publishing house and markets conspire to send them. Here’s to hoping I’ll one day make it across the equator!
Linkmeister
11:40 pm Mar-3-2010
Well, failing the land of Oz, we in Hawai’i buy books too!
blakecharlton
11:27 pm Mar-7-2010
ach! somehow didn’t see this comment until just now. my bad. i actually might be out in HI this May! a family member has a timeshare on Kaui he can’t use, so if i can only get my butt over there, i’ll living island style for a week or so 🙂 i’ll keep you posted.
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Thomas Perry
10:47 am Apr-11-2010
Mr. Charlton,
Regarding Spellwright,
You have a fan. =)
Thomas
Linda Doyle
9:43 am May-29-2010
Mr. Charlton, I have been into SiFi for many years and picked your book up at the local library, I really enjoy your lst book and look forward to BK.2. I want to find out more about Nicodemus and Shannon and which direction the story follows. Thank you..
blakecharlton
12:11 pm May-29-2010
hi linda! thanks so much for letting me know 🙂 am just now at work polishing up book 2, and hopefully will have a teaser preview online soon!
bryan
2:07 am Jun-2-2010
Currently, reading Spellwright…WOW and Awesome. It is great to see a writer bringing his experience and gifts into a fantasy novel. It shows how much society still needs to grow up.
thanks
can not wait to finish the book and read Spellbound when it comes out
blakecharlton
1:08 pm Jun-6-2010
thank you kindly for the the comment! hope the words keep coming alive for you. am hard at work on spellbound right now 🙂