Appearances
UPCOMING EVENTS 2019
Jan. 30, Seattle, FOLIO, 7pm Panel discussion with Mary Ann Gwinn and Lane Morgan about the great Seattle historian Murray Morgan and his timeless masterpiece SKID ROAD.
2018
Oct. 11-19 touring in FRANCE:
Oct. 11, Chateauroux, 7 pm Arcanes
Oct. 12, Bordeaux, 6 pm, event at the Mediatheque Jacques Elull-Pessac
Oct. 13, Bordeaux, Festival Lire en Poche, 3 pm event, maritime wonder
Oct. 14, Festival Lire en Poche, book signings, 10:30-12 and 4-6 pm
Oct. 15, Waterloo, Brussels, event at Grafitti
Oct 16, Liege, event at Pax, 6:30 pm
Oct. 17, Lille, event at La Lison, 7 pm
Oct. 18, Puteaux, eent at L'Amandier
PRIOR TOUR APPEARANCES FOR BEFORE THE WIND:
Aug. 18, Gold Beach Oregon, speaking at new library
Sept. 20, Green College (Puyallup, WA), speaking at extended learning program.
Sept. 30, Seattle Women's Club, speaking
July 27, Books by the Bay, (Olympia, WA )
Oct. 4, Speaker at St. Martin's University, (Lacey, WA) Les Bailey Speaking Series
Oct. 6, Speaker at Seattle Arts and Lectues fundraiser
November 14, Mercer Island Historical Society, 1 pm
November 17, Bainbridge Island Eagle Harbor Books, 7 pm
November 19, Holiday Bookfest, Seattle (Phinney Neighborhood Center, 3-5 pm
November 29, Ballard Rotary
December 1, Corinthian Yacht Club, Seattle
Feb. 1-2, Travelling to Toronto for media interviews and filming of book trailer in advance of release of "Before the Wind"
Feb. 6, Teaching at "Write Here Right Now" at Seattle7 writer's conference in Seattle
Feb. 6, Reading at Washington Center in Olympia, as part of arts salon with poets and a playwright, 7:30 pm
Feb. 14-15, Author events in Victoria, BC
April 6, Speaking to writing students at University of Puget Sound, 5 pm
April 7, taping of "Well Read" TV book show in Seattle
April 15, stock signing at Partners West
April 17-18, Teaching writing workshop in Lynden, Wa
April 18, Lynden reading, 7 pm
April 19, Bellingham, WA, Village Books, 7 pm
April 21, Olympia, Wa, Timberland Library, 7:30 pm
April 26, Seattle, Third Place Books, 7 pm
April 27, Seattle, Elliott Bay Books, 7 pm
April 28, Portland, Powell's Books, 7:30 pm
April 30, Edmonds, Wa Edmonds Bookshop, noon
May 4 Wellesley College, Mass, Authors on Stage
May 5, Milford, NH, Toadstool Bookshop
May 6, Mystic, CT, Bank Square Books
May 10, Toronto, Burlington Golf and Country Club, 9:30 am, 422 North Shore Boulevard East. Sponsored by A Different Drummer Books, sold out.
May 10, Toronto, Uxbridge–Wooden Sticks Golf and Country Club, 40 Elgin Park Drive. Presented by Blue Heron Books. 7 pm For tickets, (905) 852-4282
May 11, Toronto, International Festival of Authors Weekly, 7:30 p.m, Brigantine Room, 235 Queen’s Quay West. For tickets, (416) 973-4000 or www.ifoa.org
May 18, San Francisco, Book Passage, 1 Ferry Building, 6 pm
May 19, Danville, CA, Rakestraw Books, 7 pm
May 20, Mendocino, CA, Gallery Bookstore, 6:30 pm
May 22, Seattle, Third Place Books in Seward Park, 2 pm
May 24, Centralia Timberland Library, WA, 5:30 pm
May 25, Olympia, Panorama Community Center
May 26, Speaking to University of Washington class on Northwest literature, 11:30 am
May 26, Mercer Island, WA, Island Books
May 28, Sidney, BC, Tannery Books
May 30 Parksville, BC, Mulberry Bush
May 31, Victoria, BC, Bolen Books
June 1, Vancouver, BC, PulpFiction Books
June 9, Anacortes, WA, Watermark Books
June 10, Seattle, Queen Anne Books, 7 pm
June 12-18, teaching fiction at Saint Martin’s University's 2016 inaugural Summer Writing Institute, a five-day class/retreat to write and study creative writing.
June 18, Port Orchard, WA, library event, 3 pm
June 20, Seattle book club, 7 pm
July 18, Olympia Rotary, noon speaker
July 19, Leavenworth, WA, A Book For All Seasons
July 23, Bend, OR, Sunriver Books, 5 pm
Aug 18, King County Library Fundraiser, speaker, 7 pm
Sept. 13, Olympia, South Sound Sailing Society, speaker, 7 pm
Sept. 14, Tacoma, WA, Tacoma Mountaineers, 7 pm
Sept. 20, Shilshole Yacht Club Dinner Speaker, 6 pm
Sept. 21, Seattle Yacht Club Book Club
Sept. 26-27, Winnipeg, Canada Book Festival
Sept 30-Oct 2, Harbor Springs Festival in Petoskey, MI
Oct. 11-12, Calgary Book Festival
Oct. 15, Whistler Book Festival
Oct. 21-23, Vancouver Writers Festival
Oct. 26-28 Toronto International Festival of Authors
Nov. 4-5, Gig Harbor, WA, keynote for "Write in the Harbor" writers' conference
Nov. 5, Porland, OR, Wordstock Book Festival
March 11 -- Literary Lions event (Bellevue, WA), Daniel Handler keynote.
March 14 -- Tea Tree Point Yacht Club event (Des Moines, WA)
March 23 -- Ballard Library, (Seattle), 7 pm
March 25-27 -- "Port Townsend Reads BTW", three days of community events in maritime city north of Seattle
April 5 -- Seattle Town Hall event
April 12 -- St. Francis Yacht Club, (San Francisco), noon presentation
April 22 -- Lakewood Yacht Club (Galveston, Texas area) morning presentation, (Barnes & Noble bookseller attending)
May 2 -- Portland Yacht Club (Maine), evening
May 4 -- Essex Yacht Club (Conn) evening
May 6 -- Stonington Yacht Club (Conn), 4 pm
May 11 -- Grosse Point Yacht Club (Michigan), evening