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Book Signings and Special Events in DFWFriday - May 18, 2012WHAT: Author Signing
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions) |
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Melissa Bourbon Books:A Fitting End, February 2012 |
Melissa Bourbon Join authors Judy Alter, Melissa Bourbon, Carol Nelson Douglas,Rhonda Hopkins, Paula Laroque, Laura Moore and Wendy Lynn Walston for an evening of reading and discussing the world of mystery fiction.
WHERE: Barnes & Noble University Village (directions)
1612 S. University Dr #401
Forth Worth, TX 76107
817-335-2791
TIME: 7:00pm - 9:00pm local time
Melissa Bourbon
Pseudonym for Misa Ramirez.
Melissa Bourbon, who sometimes answers to her Latina-by-marriage name Misa Ramirez, is the marketing director with Entangled Publishing. She is the founder of Books on the House, the co-founder of The Naked Hero and The Writer’s Guide to ePulblishing, and is the author of the Lola Cruz Mystery series with St. Martin’s Minotaur, A Magical Dressmaking Mystery series with NAL, two indie published romantic suspense novels, and is the co-author of The Tricked-out Toolbox.
Friday - May 18, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Ben Fountain Books:Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, May 2012 |
Ben Fountain part of Arts & Lettes Live (Free with museum admission)
WHERE: Dallas Museum of Art
1717 Harwood Street
Dallas, TX
TIME: 7:00pm - 9:00pm local time
Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain's fiction has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope: All Story, and he has been awarded an O. Henry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. He lives with his wife and their two children in Dallas, Texas.
Saturday - May 19, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Jason HinojosaBooks:The Last Lawsons, April 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Preston Royal (directions)
5959 Royal Lane Suite 616
Dallas, TX 75230
214-363-0924
TIME: 2:00pm - 4:00pm local time
Jason Hinojosa
Jason Hinojosa taught literature and creative writing at globally-competitive international schools in Florida and Hong Kong. He travelled extensively in Asia, including Kolkata where he volunteered for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. He published a number of short stories and won two literary awards.
Sunday - May 20, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
John Sandford Photo Credit: John Earle Books:Shock Wave, October 2011 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 4:00pm - 5:00pm local time
John Sandford
John Sandford is the pseudonym of John Roswell Camp, an American author and journalist. Camp won the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1986, and was one of four finalists for the prize in 1980. He also was the winner of the Distinguished Writing Award of the American Society of Newspaper Editors for 1985.
Camp is the author of thirty-one published novels, all of which have appeared, in one format or another, on the New York Times Best-Seller lists. He is also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. His books have been translated into most European languages, as well as Japanese and Korean. He is the principal sponsor of a major archaeological dig in Israel, and is on the board of directors of the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research.
Camp was born February 23, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended Cedar Rapids Catholic and public schools, graduating from Washington Senior High School in 1962. He received a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1966, and a master's degree in journalism in 1971, both from the University of Iowa.
Camp was married to Susan Lee Jones in 1966, and has two children, Roswell Camp and Emily Curtis, and three grandchildren, Benjamin, Daniel and Gabriel Curtis. His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007, and is greatly missed.
After graduating from the University of Iowa in 1966, Camp spent two years in the U.S. Army, during which he served in Korea. He then worked as a reporter for the Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Southeast Missourian for a year, returning to University of Iowa in 1970 for his master's degree.
He was a reporter and an editor at The Miami Herald from 1971-1978, and a reporter and columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press from 1978-1990. He continues to do occasional journalism, and was embedded with the 2-147 Air Assault Battalion during the Iraq War.
He is the principal financial backer of the Beth-Shean Valley Archaeological Project in the Jordan River Valley of Israel, with a website at www.rehov.org
In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography; he occasionally writes on-line articles on both. He enjoys reading history. He is interested in a number of outdoor sports, including hunting and fishing, canoeing, and skiing. He has, on occasion, both sailed and SCUBA-dived. In 2010, he was thrown from a horse in the hills above Hollywood, CA, and spent three months limping around and cursing horses. He is a golfer. He has homes in Lakeland Shores, Minnesota, east of St. Paul, and in Pasadena, California.
Sunday - May 20, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Alan Lightman Books:Ghost, November 2007 |
Alan Lightman Talk and signing
WHERE: First Presbyterian Church of Dallas (directions)
408 Park Avenue
Dallas, TX 75201
214 748-8051
TIME: 7:30pm local time
Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman, author of The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science, and A Sense of the Mysterious: Science and the Human Spirit; adjunct professor of humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Monday - May 21, 2012
WHAT: Special Event
Fresh Fiction recommends books on Good Morning Texas with Gwen Reyes
WHERE: WFAA Channel 8 Good Morning Texas
Dallas, TX
http://freshfiction.com/gmt
TIME: 9:00am - 10:00am local time
Monday - May 21, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Robert A. Caro Books:The Passage Of Power, May 2012 |
Robert A. Caro CANCELLED In conversation with Texas Monthly’s Brian Sweany, and book signing. Event is free but you need to RSVP
WHERE: The Sixth Floor Museum
411 Elm Street
Dallas, TX
http://www.texasmonthly.com/rsvp/carodallasga
TIME: 7:00pm - 9:00pm local time
Robert A. Caro
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president.
Tuesday - May 22, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Robert A. CaroBooks:The Passage Of Power, May 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 11:30am - 12:30pm local time
Robert A. Caro
Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. He has since written four of a planned five volumes of The Years of Lyndon Johnson (1982, 1990, 2002, 2012), a biography of the former president.
Thursday - May 24, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Buzz Bissinger Books:Father's Day, May 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 7:00pm - 9:00pm local time
Buzz Bissinger
Buzz Bissinger is a best-selling writer and Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist. The author of the classic Friday Night Lights and A Prayer for the City, he is a also a contributing editor for Vanity Fair.
Saturday - May 26, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Rex G. RussellBooks:The Butterfly Effect Of Grace, February 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Sundance Square (directions)
401 Commerce Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-332-7178
TIME: 1:00pm local time
Rex G. Russell
Sunday - May 27, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Michael Scott Books:The Enchantress, June 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Southlake (directions)
1430 Plaza Place
Southlake, TX 76092
817-442-0207
TIME: 2:00pm - 3:00pm local time
Michael Scott
An authority on mythology and folklore, Michael Scott is one of Ireland’s most successful authors.
Thursday - May 31, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Justin Halpern Books:I Suck At Girls, May 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time
Justin Halpern
Justin Halpern is the founding editor of the comedy website HolyTaco.com and a senior writer at Maxim.com. Halpern created the Twitter page "Shit My Dad Says," which boasts more than a million followers, and is cowriting and coproducing a sitcom adaptation for CBS. He splits his time between Los Angeles and his parents' home in San Diego.
http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays
Thursday - May 31, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Julia Heaberlin Photo Credit: Jill Johnson Books:Playing Dead, June 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble University Village (directions)
1612 S. University Dr #401
Fort Worth, TX 76107
817-335-2791
TIME: 7:00pm local time
Julia Heaberlin
Julia Heaberlin was a journalist for more than twenty years for such newspapers as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Detroit News. Playing Dead is her first novel. She lives with her family in Texas.
http://www.juliaheaberlin.com/
Saturday - June 2, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
James Donovan Books:The Blood Of Heroes, May 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
D, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 2:00pm - 3:00pm local time
James Donovan
James Donovan is the author of the bestselling A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn-the Last Great Battle of the American West. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
Tuesday - June 5, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Francis Ray Books:When Morning Comes, June 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Uptown Village (directions)
305 West FM 1382 Suite 520
Cedar Hill, TX 75104
972-291-1169
TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time
Francis Ray
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Francis Ray is a native Texan and lives in Dallas. She is a graduate of Texas Woman's University. In 1999 and 2000 she was nominated for Texas Woman's University Distinguished Alumni Award. December 2010, Ms. Ray delivered the university's winter commencement address.
Ms. Ray's titles consistently make bestseller's lists such as Blackboard and Essence Magazine. INCOGNITO, her sixth title, was the first made-for-TV movie for BET. She has written forty titles to date. Awards include Romantic Times Career Achievement, EMMA, The Golden Pen, The Atlantic Choice, and Borders 2008 Romance Award for Bestselling Multicultural Romance...
THE TURNING POINT, her first mainstream, was a finalist for the prestigious HOLT Medallion Award. At the release event for THE TURNING POINT in May 2001, she established The Turning Point Legal Fund to assist women of domestic violence to help restructure their lives.
Her second mainstream, I KNOW WHO HOLDS TOMORROW, May 2002, made the bestseller's list of The Dallas Morning News, Blackboard, Black Expressions Book Club, and Essence Magazine. The book was one of five titles selected as Book Club Favorites for Black Issues Book Review Best of 2002.
SOMEBODY'S KNOCKING AT MY DOOR, her third mainstream, was released May 2003 and made bestseller's lists across the country. ROCKIN' AROUND THAT CHRISTMAS TREE, a holiday collaboration with Donna Hill, came out in November 2003. Other books include SOMEONE TO LOVE ME December 2003, TROUBLE DON'T LAST ALWAYS January 2004, FIRST TOUCH February 2004, WHOLE LOTTA LOVE February 2004, LOVE AT LEO'S July 2004, and THE FALCON SAGA August 2004. Her fourth mainstream, LIKE THE FIRST TIME, was released in May 2004 and also made the Essence bestseller's list.
January 2005 continued the Living Large stories, a concept of Ms. Ray's of fashionable and fabulous full-figured women with BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. February 2005 was a major personal triumph with the release of her first Christian fiction, Then Sings My Soul, in a trade anthology from Harlequin/Steeple Hill titled HOW SWEET THE SOUND. March 2005 saw the release of the long-awaited continuation of The Graysons of New Mexico series with YOU AND NO OTHER. Her fifth mainstream and thirtieth title, ANY RICH MAN WILL DO, was released October 2005 and made the Essence list two months in a row.
In 2005 two of Ms. Ray's titles, SOMEONE TO LOVE ME and I KNOW WHO HOLDS TOMORROW were released in hard cover with large print by Thorndike. In 2006 TROUBLE DON'T LAST ALWAYS, HOW SWEET THE SOUND, and ANY RICH MAN WILL DO were selected by Thorndike as well.
IN ANOTHER MAN'S BED, her sixth mainstream and Book #3 of the Invincible Women Series was released February 2007. NOT EVEN IF YOU BEGGED — Book #4 in the series came out January 2008 and made #3 on Essence Magazine's bestseller's list.
IRRESISTIBLE YOU — Book #4 of the Graysons of New Mexico — hit stores March 2007. Book #5 — ONLY YOU — was released October 2007. THE WAY YOU LOVE ME is Book # 1 of the new and exciting Grayson Friends Series and was released August 2008. Book #2 of the series, NOBODY BUT YOU, hit stores March 2009 and promptly made the New York Times and USA Today bestseller's list. NOBODY BUT YOU was named Borders books best selling multicultural romance of 2008. ONE NIGHT WITH YOU, Book #3 was released November 03, 2009.
Leading off 2010 was IF YOU WERE MY MAN, book # 6 in the Invincible Women series. March 30th was the reissue readers have clamored for, FOREVER YOURS, book # 1 of the Taggart/Falcon series. A brand new release, IT HAD TO BE YOU, book # 4 in the Grayson Friends series, hits bookstores April 27th ONLY HERS, book # 2 in the Taggart/Falcon series, was reissued August 2nd. Closing out the year on December 7th was the reissue of HEART OF THE FALCON, book # 3 Taggart/Falcon series.
Scheduled for 2011 is BREAK EVERY RULE on March 29. TWICE THE TEMPTATION, Ms. Ray's first collection of short stories,and UNDENIABLE both will hit stores on June 21st. November 01 will see the reissue of TROUBLE DON'T LAST ALWAYS, Ms.Ray's first mainstream and the book that moved her to establish The Turning Point Legal Fund in 2001.
The 2012 schedule was recently announced. Three 'KISS" books will continue the Grayson Friends series - A SEDUCTIVE KISS - January 31st, WITH JUST A KISS - February 28th, and A DANGEROUS KISS - July 2012. WHEN TOMORROW COMES, a mainstream, will be in stores June 05, followed by another mainstream as yet untitled in November. Mrs. Ray is hard at work on her next book.
Thursday - June 7, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Jaye Wells Books:Blue-Blooded Vamp, June 2012 |
Jaye Wells With Kevin Hearne
WHERE: A Real Bookstore (directions)
113 Prairie Rd
Fairview, TX 75063
972-398-9888
TIME: 7:00pm - 9:00pm local time
Jaye Wells
After several years as a magazine editor and freelance writer, Jaye Wells finally decided to leave the facts behind and make up her own reality. Her overactive imagination and life-long fascination with the arcane and freakish blended nicely with this new career path. Her Sabina Kane urban fantasy series is a blend of dark themes, grave stakes and wicked humor. Jaye lives in Texas with her saintly husband and devilish son.
Thursday - June 7, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Kevin Hearne Books:Tricked, May 2012 |
WHERE: A Real Bookstore (directions)
113 Prairie Rd
Fairview, TX 75069
972-398-9888
TIME: 7:00pm - 9:00pm local time
Kevin Hearne
Kevin Hearne is a native of Arizona and really appreciates whoever invented air-conditioning. He graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and now teaches high school English. When he’s not grading essays or writing novels, he tends to his basil plants and paints landscapes with his daughter. He has been known to obsess over fonts, frolic unreservedly with dogs, and stop whatever he’s doing in the rare event of rain to commune with the precipitation. He enjoys hiking, the guilty pleasure of comic books, and living with his wife and daughter in a wee, snug cottage.
Tuesday - June 12, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Vicki Pettersson Photo Credit: Derik Klein Books:The Neon Graveyard, May 2011 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time
Vicki Pettersson
Vicki Pettersson was born and raised in Las Vegas. A post-college stint in public relations convinced her that working on assignment wasn't for her, so she did what any self-respecting Vegas girl would do: She became a showgirl by night, and a closet novelist by day. A decade later she became an "instant" bestseller with the release of the first book in her dark fantasy series, The Scent of Shadows. Still residing in Sin City, where a backyard view of the Strip regularly inspires her to set down her martini and head back to her computer, she is currently hard at work on the next installment in the Signs of the Zodiac series.
http://www.vickipettersson.com/
Thursday - June 14, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Ben FountainBooks:Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, May 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Preston Royal (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 7:00pm local time
Ben Fountain
Ben Fountain's fiction has appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope: All Story, and he has been awarded an O. Henry Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. He lives with his wife and their two children in Dallas, Texas.
Saturday - June 16, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Gerald Warfield Books:Writers Of The Future Volume 28, June 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Hulen (directions)
4801 Overton Ridge Blvd suite 100
Fort Worth, TX 76132
817-346-2368
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:00pm local time
Gerald Warfield
GERALD ALEXANDER WARFIELD, composer, writer. Born in Ft. Worth, Feb. 23, 1940. Son of George Alexander and Geraldine (Spencer) Warfield. After leaving Princeton in 1970 he moved to New York where he lived for 30 years. During this time, around 1985, he changed professions (painlessly) to that of writer.
In early 2000 Warfield left New York for Texas. In 1977 he became general manager of the Society of Composers, Inc. (then, ASUC). In Mineral Wells, he was chairman of the Advisory Board of the Boyce Ditto Public Library in 2007 and President of the Mineral Wells Heritage Association in 2009.
http://www.geraldwarfield.com/
Saturday - June 16, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Gerald WarfieldBooks:Writers Of The Future Volume 28, June 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Sundance Square (directions)
401 Commerce Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817 284-3243
TIME: 3:00pm local time
Gerald Warfield
GERALD ALEXANDER WARFIELD, composer, writer. Born in Ft. Worth, Feb. 23, 1940. Son of George Alexander and Geraldine (Spencer) Warfield. After leaving Princeton in 1970 he moved to New York where he lived for 30 years. During this time, around 1985, he changed professions (painlessly) to that of writer.
In early 2000 Warfield left New York for Texas. In 1977 he became general manager of the Society of Composers, Inc. (then, ASUC). In Mineral Wells, he was chairman of the Advisory Board of the Boyce Ditto Public Library in 2007 and President of the Mineral Wells Heritage Association in 2009.
http://www.geraldwarfield.com/
Monday - June 18, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Lauren Kate Books:Rapture, June 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Southlake (directions)
1430 Plaza Place
Southlake, TX 76092
817-442-0207
TIME: 6:00pm - 8:00pm local time
Lauren Kate
Lauren Kate recently finished her M.A. in Creative Writing at UC Davis, where she also teaches. She lives and writes in an old farm house in Winters, California.
Tuesday - June 19, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Abbi Glines Books:Breathe, September 2011 |
Abbi Glines signing with Fisher Amelie
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Sundance Square (directions)
401 Commerce Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-332-7178
TIME: 5:00pm - 6:00pm local time
Abbi Glines
Abbi Glines can be found hanging out with rockstars, taking out her yacht on weekends for a party cruise, sky diving, or surfing in Maui. Okay maybe she needs to keep her imagination focused on her writing only. In the real world, Abbi can be found hauling kids (several who seem to show up that don’t belong to her) to all their social events, hiding under the covers with her MacBook in hopes her husband won’t catch her watching Buffy on Netflix again, and sneaking off to Barnes and Noble to spend hours lost in the yummy goodness of books
Tuesday - June 19, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Fisher Amelie Books:Callum & Harper, January 2012 |
Fisher Amelie Signing with Abbi Glines
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Sundance Square (directions)
401 Commerce Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-332-7178
TIME: 5:00pm - 6:00pm local time
Fisher Amelie
Fisher Amelie resides in the South with her kick ace husband slash soul mate. She earned her first 'mama' patch in 2009. She also lives with her Weim, 'Jonah', and her Beta, 'Whale'. All these living creatures keep the belly of her life full, sometimes to the point of gluttony, but she doesn't mind all that much because life isn't worth living if it isn't entertaining, right? Fisher grew up writing. She secretly hid notebooks and notebooks of dribble in a large Tupperware storage container in her closet as a kid. She didn't put two and two together until after college where it suddenly dawned on her, "Hey, I like writing". She's a bit dense. "No, I'm not." "Yes, you are. Put down that Oreo, your butt can't take any more." "You're rude." "Yeah, yeah." Anyway, she likes to write and has finally beaten her self-esteem into submission enough to allow herself to be scrutinized under the 'other readers' microscope. "No! No! Not a cover slip! Last time it gave me a ra...." (mumbling)
Wednesday - June 20, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Tom WrightBooks:Roadwork, June 2007 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time
Tom Wright
Tom Wright studied photography in London in the early sixties and spent several years in Europe supporting himself through freelance work he did for artists. In 1967, he went on his first rock & roll tour and for the next thirty years, traveled with many bands including The Who, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Joe Walsh, Fabulous Thunderbirds, J.D. Souther, Patsy Torres, Firefall and many others.
http://www.tomwrightphotography.com/
Friday - June 29, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
James Rollins Books:Bloodline, July 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time
James Rollins
James Rollins decided to become a writer as a boy immersed in the scientific adventures of Doc Savage, the wonders of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and pulps featuring The Shadow, The Spider, and The Avenger. He honed his storytelling skills early, spinning elaborate tales that often were at heart of pranks played on his brothers and sisters.
Yet although his talent emerged and grew, writing was not Jim's original profession. Before he would set heroes and villains on harrowing adventures, he embarked on a career in veterinary medicine, graduating from the University of Missouri and establishing a successful veterinary clinic in Sacramento, California. This hands-on knowledge of medicine and science helps shape the research and scientific speculation that set James Rollins books apart.
When Jim is not writing, touring, teaching seminars, or making presentations, he can be found spelunking, scuba diving, hiking, and/or traveling. Jim and his two- and four-legged family members live amid chew toys and paleontological treasures in Northern California.
Saturday - June 30, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
James RollinsBooks:Bloodline, July 2012 |
WHERE: A Real Bookstore (directions)
113 Prairie Rd
Fairview, TX 75069
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:00pm local time
James Rollins
James Rollins decided to become a writer as a boy immersed in the scientific adventures of Doc Savage, the wonders of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, and pulps featuring The Shadow, The Spider, and The Avenger. He honed his storytelling skills early, spinning elaborate tales that often were at heart of pranks played on his brothers and sisters.
Yet although his talent emerged and grew, writing was not Jim's original profession. Before he would set heroes and villains on harrowing adventures, he embarked on a career in veterinary medicine, graduating from the University of Missouri and establishing a successful veterinary clinic in Sacramento, California. This hands-on knowledge of medicine and science helps shape the research and scientific speculation that set James Rollins books apart.
When Jim is not writing, touring, teaching seminars, or making presentations, he can be found spelunking, scuba diving, hiking, and/or traveling. Jim and his two- and four-legged family members live amid chew toys and paleontological treasures in Northern California.
Wednesday - July 11, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Jeff Abbott Books:Adrenaline, July 2011 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 7:00pm local time
Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott is the international-bestselling, award-winning author of ten mystery and suspense novels. Jeff's novels have been called "exciting, shrewd, and beautifully crafted" (Chicago Tribune), "fresh, original... intricately woven" (Publishers Weekly), "nail-bitingly suspenseful and totally original" (Irish Independent) and "excellent" (South Florida Sun-Sentinel). He is published in twenty languages and has been a bestseller in the US, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, Portugal, and other countries.
Jeff is a three-time nominee for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award and a two-time nominee for the Anthony Award, given at Bouchercon (aka the World Mystery Conference.) His novel Panic was also been nominated for Best Novel for the Thriller Award. All of Jeff's Whit Mosley suspense novels have been honored with nominations for major writing awards: A Kiss Gone Bad was short-listed for the Anthony Award; Black Jack Point was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, and Barry Awards; and Cut and Run was nominated for the Edgar Award. Jeff's first novel, Do Unto Others, won both the Agatha Award and the Macavity Award for Best First Novel. His other books include The Only Good Yankee, Promises of Home, and Distant Blood.
Jeff's short stories have been anthologized in collections such as Best American Mystery Stories and The World's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories.
His novels Panic and Collision have been optioned for film and are in script development.
Jeff is a native Texan but does not have a strong Southern accent until a) extremely upset or b) the third glass of wine. He graduated from Rice University with a degree in History and English, and worked as a creative director at an advertising agency before writing full-time. He lives in Austin with his wife and two sons.
Saturday - July 21, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
J.M. Richardson Books:The Twenty-Nine, September 2011 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Sundance Square (directions)
401 Commerce Street
Fort Worth, TX 76102
817-332-7178
TIME: 1:00pm local time
J.M. Richardson
J.M. Richardson is a native of southeast Louisiana where he studied education and social sciences, earning his degree from Louisiana State University. He has been writing for leisure nearly all of his life, wrote competitively in high school, and had intensive writing coursework in college. He now resides in the Fort Worth, TX, area with his wife and two daughters where he teaches geography, history, and sociology.
Saturday - July 21, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Francis RayBooks:When Morning Comes, June 2012 |
Francis Ray Summer Reading Club (“Rendezvous with Romance”)
WHERE: Irving Central Library (directions)
801 W. Irving Blvd
Irving, TX 75060
(972) 721-2606
TIME: 2:00pm - 4:00pm local time
Francis Ray
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Francis Ray is a native Texan and lives in Dallas. She is a graduate of Texas Woman's University. In 1999 and 2000 she was nominated for Texas Woman's University Distinguished Alumni Award. December 2010, Ms. Ray delivered the university's winter commencement address.
Ms. Ray's titles consistently make bestseller's lists such as Blackboard and Essence Magazine. INCOGNITO, her sixth title, was the first made-for-TV movie for BET. She has written forty titles to date. Awards include Romantic Times Career Achievement, EMMA, The Golden Pen, The Atlantic Choice, and Borders 2008 Romance Award for Bestselling Multicultural Romance...
THE TURNING POINT, her first mainstream, was a finalist for the prestigious HOLT Medallion Award. At the release event for THE TURNING POINT in May 2001, she established The Turning Point Legal Fund to assist women of domestic violence to help restructure their lives.
Her second mainstream, I KNOW WHO HOLDS TOMORROW, May 2002, made the bestseller's list of The Dallas Morning News, Blackboard, Black Expressions Book Club, and Essence Magazine. The book was one of five titles selected as Book Club Favorites for Black Issues Book Review Best of 2002.
SOMEBODY'S KNOCKING AT MY DOOR, her third mainstream, was released May 2003 and made bestseller's lists across the country. ROCKIN' AROUND THAT CHRISTMAS TREE, a holiday collaboration with Donna Hill, came out in November 2003. Other books include SOMEONE TO LOVE ME December 2003, TROUBLE DON'T LAST ALWAYS January 2004, FIRST TOUCH February 2004, WHOLE LOTTA LOVE February 2004, LOVE AT LEO'S July 2004, and THE FALCON SAGA August 2004. Her fourth mainstream, LIKE THE FIRST TIME, was released in May 2004 and also made the Essence bestseller's list.
January 2005 continued the Living Large stories, a concept of Ms. Ray's of fashionable and fabulous full-figured women with BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. February 2005 was a major personal triumph with the release of her first Christian fiction, Then Sings My Soul, in a trade anthology from Harlequin/Steeple Hill titled HOW SWEET THE SOUND. March 2005 saw the release of the long-awaited continuation of The Graysons of New Mexico series with YOU AND NO OTHER. Her fifth mainstream and thirtieth title, ANY RICH MAN WILL DO, was released October 2005 and made the Essence list two months in a row.
In 2005 two of Ms. Ray's titles, SOMEONE TO LOVE ME and I KNOW WHO HOLDS TOMORROW were released in hard cover with large print by Thorndike. In 2006 TROUBLE DON'T LAST ALWAYS, HOW SWEET THE SOUND, and ANY RICH MAN WILL DO were selected by Thorndike as well.
IN ANOTHER MAN'S BED, her sixth mainstream and Book #3 of the Invincible Women Series was released February 2007. NOT EVEN IF YOU BEGGED — Book #4 in the series came out January 2008 and made #3 on Essence Magazine's bestseller's list.
IRRESISTIBLE YOU — Book #4 of the Graysons of New Mexico — hit stores March 2007. Book #5 — ONLY YOU — was released October 2007. THE WAY YOU LOVE ME is Book # 1 of the new and exciting Grayson Friends Series and was released August 2008. Book #2 of the series, NOBODY BUT YOU, hit stores March 2009 and promptly made the New York Times and USA Today bestseller's list. NOBODY BUT YOU was named Borders books best selling multicultural romance of 2008. ONE NIGHT WITH YOU, Book #3 was released November 03, 2009.
Leading off 2010 was IF YOU WERE MY MAN, book # 6 in the Invincible Women series. March 30th was the reissue readers have clamored for, FOREVER YOURS, book # 1 of the Taggart/Falcon series. A brand new release, IT HAD TO BE YOU, book # 4 in the Grayson Friends series, hits bookstores April 27th ONLY HERS, book # 2 in the Taggart/Falcon series, was reissued August 2nd. Closing out the year on December 7th was the reissue of HEART OF THE FALCON, book # 3 Taggart/Falcon series.
Scheduled for 2011 is BREAK EVERY RULE on March 29. TWICE THE TEMPTATION, Ms. Ray's first collection of short stories,and UNDENIABLE both will hit stores on June 21st. November 01 will see the reissue of TROUBLE DON'T LAST ALWAYS, Ms.Ray's first mainstream and the book that moved her to establish The Turning Point Legal Fund in 2001.
The 2012 schedule was recently announced. Three 'KISS" books will continue the Grayson Friends series - A SEDUCTIVE KISS - January 31st, WITH JUST A KISS - February 28th, and A DANGEROUS KISS - July 2012. WHEN TOMORROW COMES, a mainstream, will be in stores June 05, followed by another mainstream as yet untitled in November. Mrs. Ray is hard at work on her next book.
Saturday - July 21, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Daniel Silva Books:Portrait of a Spy, April 2012 |
Daniel Silva In Conversation with Maxwell L. Anderson
WHERE: Dallas Museum of Art Horchow Auditorium
1717 Harwood Street
Dallas, TX
http://www.tickets.DallasMuseumofArt.org
TIME: 7:30pm - 9:00pm local time
Daniel Silva
He has been placed in the same category as John le Carré and
Graham Greene. He has been called his generation's finest
writer of international intrigue and one of the greatest
American spy novelists ever. Compelling, passionate,
haunting, brilliant: these are the words that have been used
to describe the work of Daniel Silva.
Silva burst onto the scene in 1997 with his electrifying
bestselling debut, The Unlikely Spy, a novel of love
and deception set around the Allied invasion of France in
World War II. His second and third novels, The Mark of
the Assassin and The Marching Season, were also
instant New York Times bestsellers and starred two of
Silva's most memorable characters: CIA officer Michael
Osbourne and international hit man Jean-Paul Delaroche. But
it was Silva's fourth novel, The Kill Artist, that
would alter the course of his career. The novel featured a
character described as one of the most memorable and
compelling in contemporary fiction, the art restorer and
sometime Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon, and though
Silva did not realize it at the time, Gabriel's adventures
had only just begun. Gabriel Allon appeared in Silva's next
four novels, each one more successful than the last: The
English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in
Vienna, and Prince of Fire. The sixth Gabriel
Allon novel, The Messenger, will be published in July
2006.
Silva knew from a very early age that he wanted to become a
writer, but his first profession would be journalism. Born
in Michigan, raised and educated in California, he was
pursuing a master's degree in international relations when
he received a temporary job offer from United Press
International to help cover the 1984 Democratic National
Convention in San Francisco. Later that year Silva abandoned
his studies and joined UPI fulltime, working first in San
Francisco, then on the foreign desk in Washington, and
finally as Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the
Persian Gulf. In 1987, while covering the Iran-Iraq war, he
met NBC correspondent Jamie Gangel. They were married later
that year. Silva returned to Washington and went to work for
CNN. In 1994 Jamie gave birth to a set of twins, Lily and
Nicholas.
In 1995 he confessed to Jamie that his true ambition was to
be a novelist. With her support and encouragement he
secretly began work on the manuscript that would eventually
become The Unlikely Spy. He left CNN in 1997 after
the book's successful publication and began writing full
time. He continues to reside in Washington and when not
writing he can usually be found roaming the stacks of the
Georgetown University library, where he does much of the
research for his books.
Though all of Silva's books have been New York Times
and national bestsellers, his success has not been limited
to the United States. His books have been translated into
more than 25 languages and have been published across Europe
and around the world. He is currently at work on a new
Gabriel Allon novel and warmly thanks all those friends and
loyal readers who have helped to make the series a success.
PHOTO: JAMES EARLE
http://www.danielsilvabooks.com
Sunday - July 22, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Daniel SilvaBooks:Portrait of a Spy, April 2012 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 2:00pm - 3:00pm local time
Daniel Silva
He has been placed in the same category as John le Carré and
Graham Greene. He has been called his generation's finest
writer of international intrigue and one of the greatest
American spy novelists ever. Compelling, passionate,
haunting, brilliant: these are the words that have been used
to describe the work of Daniel Silva.
Silva burst onto the scene in 1997 with his electrifying
bestselling debut, The Unlikely Spy, a novel of love
and deception set around the Allied invasion of France in
World War II. His second and third novels, The Mark of
the Assassin and The Marching Season, were also
instant New York Times bestsellers and starred two of
Silva's most memorable characters: CIA officer Michael
Osbourne and international hit man Jean-Paul Delaroche. But
it was Silva's fourth novel, The Kill Artist, that
would alter the course of his career. The novel featured a
character described as one of the most memorable and
compelling in contemporary fiction, the art restorer and
sometime Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon, and though
Silva did not realize it at the time, Gabriel's adventures
had only just begun. Gabriel Allon appeared in Silva's next
four novels, each one more successful than the last: The
English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in
Vienna, and Prince of Fire. The sixth Gabriel
Allon novel, The Messenger, will be published in July
2006.
Silva knew from a very early age that he wanted to become a
writer, but his first profession would be journalism. Born
in Michigan, raised and educated in California, he was
pursuing a master's degree in international relations when
he received a temporary job offer from United Press
International to help cover the 1984 Democratic National
Convention in San Francisco. Later that year Silva abandoned
his studies and joined UPI fulltime, working first in San
Francisco, then on the foreign desk in Washington, and
finally as Middle East correspondent in Cairo and the
Persian Gulf. In 1987, while covering the Iran-Iraq war, he
met NBC correspondent Jamie Gangel. They were married later
that year. Silva returned to Washington and went to work for
CNN. In 1994 Jamie gave birth to a set of twins, Lily and
Nicholas.
In 1995 he confessed to Jamie that his true ambition was to
be a novelist. With her support and encouragement he
secretly began work on the manuscript that would eventually
become The Unlikely Spy. He left CNN in 1997 after
the book's successful publication and began writing full
time. He continues to reside in Washington and when not
writing he can usually be found roaming the stacks of the
Georgetown University library, where he does much of the
research for his books.
Though all of Silva's books have been New York Times
and national bestsellers, his success has not been limited
to the United States. His books have been translated into
more than 25 languages and have been published across Europe
and around the world. He is currently at work on a new
Gabriel Allon novel and warmly thanks all those friends and
loyal readers who have helped to make the series a success.
PHOTO: JAMES EARLE
http://www.danielsilvabooks.com
Friday - August 3, 2012
WHAT: Author Signing
Brad Thor Photo Credit: Jan Cobb Books:Full Black, June 2011 |
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park (directions)
7700 West Northwest Hwy. Ste. 300
Dallas, TX 75225
214-739-1124
TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time
Brad Thor
Brad Thor, a graduate of the University of Southern California and former member of the Department of Homeland Security's Analytic Red Cell Program, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Lucerne, Path of the Assassin, State of the Union, Blowback, and Takedown. He and his wife -- a physician to the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox -- divide their time with their two children between Chicago and the Greek island of Antiparos.
Monday - November 12, 2012
WHAT: Special Event
Eloisa James Books:The Ugly Duchess, September 2012 |
Readers & 'ritas Weeikend
WHERE: Hilton Garden Inn - Allen/Plano
http://2012readers.eventbrite.com/
TIME: 8:00am - 11:00pm local time
Eloisa James
New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. Her novels have been published to great acclaim. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar"; later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.
After graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. from Oxford University, a Ph.D. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report.
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