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San Diego Shenanigans
I haven’t been to San Diego Comic Con for a few years. Heck, feels like I haven’t been to California for, uh, three years? Last time I remember was the HUNTED tour in 2013. I had signings in LA, Menlo Park, Petaluma, and Davis, driving the whole way and heading north to Oregon. I’ll do my best to get a couple stops in on my next IDC tour. But! I’ll be in San Diego for Comic Con in a couple weeks, and you can see me there at the con OR OUTSIDE OF IT!!! <–These are not excessive exclamation points. It really is that exciting and I will fight a copy editor in the Octagon over it.
My con schedule is below. BUT if you are one of the many people who can’t snag a ticket to the convention, there’s an opportunity to see me and some other turbo-spiffy authors offsite! Behold:
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 9 AM at UPSTART CROW in Seaport Village near the convention center, meet me & NYT bestsellers Chuck Wendig, V.E. Schwab, Richard Kadrey, and Chloe Neill! Please do bring whatever you’d like to have signed, but also it would be rad if you’d give Upstart Crow a boost by buying a book there, or at least a coffee? (Their Mexican Mocha is the best I’ve ever had.) They will have new releases there by most o’ those peeps: Chuck has STAR WARS: LIFE DEBT out, Richard has THE PERDITION SCORE, and Victoria just got done touring for THIS SAVAGE SONG. Upstart Crow will have their older releases and mine there as well.
What will I have that’s brand spankin’ new? I don’t have a recent book release, alas, but I will have 50 of these gorgeous posters of THE PURLOINED POODLE cover art by Galen Dara to give away, and I’ll sign ’em for ya. (These are reserved for peeps who have a book for me to sign, and one per person, please.)
If you haven’t preordered a copy of The Purloined Poodle yet, you can order a trade hardcover directly from the publisher here and they’ll ship wherever you are. (That link will also let you read the first chapter!)
My San Diego Comic Con schedule:
Thursday, 3-4 pm: “Fantasy Mixology: The Perfect Cocktail.” Panel with Paul Cornell, Richard Kadrey, Mary Robinette Kowal, Drew Magary, and Paul Krueger. In the Horton Grand Theatre! Moderated by Petra Mayer from NPR.
Thursday, 5-6 pm: Signing at Autograph Area 7 with the authors listed above! You can come by without attending that panel, of course, so please do!
Thursday, 7:30-8:30 pm: “Deleted Scenes.” Moderated by my spiffy editor, Tricia Narwani. Join me, Michael Sullivan, and Harry Turtledove to discuss why some scenes get highlighted in the ol’ word processor and then deleted. I’ll be sharing a bit of a long scene cut from HAMMERED where Atticus & Leif hunt vampires in Phoenix.
Friday, 12-1 pm: Signing at the Del Rey booth #1515. Usually they give away free copies of HOUNDED. You are certainly welcome to bring anything else you want to have signed!
Friday, 4-5 pm: Signing at the Badali Jewelry Booth #532, free ticket required. Just swing by and grab one, and bring whatever you’d like for me to sign! Also check out the official IDC jewelry they have—it’s honestly beautiful stuff!
Saturday, 9 am, sweet gods below that’s early! The Upstart Crow signing, details above!
Saturday, 4-5 pm: Signing at the Del Rey booth, #1515! Usually they give away free copies of HOUNDED. You are certainly welcome to bring anything else you want to have signed!
Hope I’ll get to see you somewhere there, California peeps! Rest of my year’s travel involves three more cons and a signing: Dragon*Con in Atlanta, StoryCon in New Orleans, signing The Purloined Poodle at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale Oct. 3, and Hal-Con in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
