Please join me for the launch of my new novel, Breaking and Entering, to be held at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor, MI, at 7 PM on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Nicola's is located in the Westgate Shopping Center, at 2513 Jackson Road.
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I will be signing copies of Breaking and Entering at the Four Way Books table at the upcoming AWP Conference in Chicago, on Saturday, March 3, from 11 AM until noon.
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The Author's Forum at the University of Michigan will be hosting a reading from Breaking and Entering and a conversation with JoEllen Vinyard, author of a very smart nonfiction book about the history of extremist rightwing groups in Michigan, on Wednesday, April 4, from 5:30-7 PM, in Room 100 of the Hatcher Graduate Library on the U of M campus.
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Join me at Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts) at 7 pm on Monday, April 30, for a reading and signing.
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As part of Grub Street's Muse & the Marketplace Conference, I will be reading on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 7:30 pm, at the Park Plaza Hotel in downtown Boston.
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I will be reading in Detroit on Wednesday, May 16, at 6 pm, as part of an event sponsored by Marick Press. The venue is Tech Town, 440 Burroughs.
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From June 12-22, I will be teaching at the first-ever Yale Summer Writers' Conference.
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I will be participating in the Ann Arbor Book Festival on the evening of June 23, 2012 ... details TBA!
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If you are going to be in northern Michigan at the end of June, I hope you will stop by to say hello at one or more of the following events (further details to follow):
Tuesday, June 26, 11 AM-1 PM, at Between the Covers in Harbor Springs;
Wednesday, June 27, 1-3 PM, Mclean and Eakin in Petoskey;
Thursday, June 28, 4-6 pm, Horizon Books in Traverse City;
Friday, June 29, 4 PM, Brimley, and 7 PM, Bayliss;
Saturday, June 30, 1 PM Newberry.
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On Sunday, September 9, from 2-3 pm, I will be participating on a panel called New Voices in Women's Fiction at the Kerrytown Bookfest with my good friends Lorna Goodison and Natalie Bakopoulos.
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If you live in the Philadelphia area, check back for further details on a reading I will be giving on the U Penn campus at 6 pm on Thursday, September 27.
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Ditto if you live in Manhattan ... I will be reading at NYU at 5 pm on Friday, November 16, along with several of my fellow Four Way Books authors.
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