Upcoming Events
Events related to Romance Novels and Writing in Romancelandia (online), the Pacific Northwest and the big ones Nationally. These are updated as I find them, so check back regularly. Please leave a comment if you have events to add!
ROM = Romance
HR = Historical Romance (non Regency)
RR = Regency Romance
CR = Contemporary Romance
PR = Paranormal Romance
CatR = Category Romance
UF = Urban Fantasy
SF = Science Fiction
FN = Fantasy
YA = Young Adult
Check out the author appearances and writing workshops offered by Clarion West here, so that I don’t have to retype all of them.
JULY
- July 12: AUTHOR YASMINE GALENORN book signing Dragon Wytch (Otherworld, Book 4), Seattle Mystery Books, noon-1:30pm. (PR)
- July 15: AUTHOR CONNIE WILLIS reading & book signing. Winner of six Hugo and six Nebula awards. Time-travel-based novels Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Fire Watch. 7 pm, University Bookstore Seattle. (SF)
- July 17-20: CONFERENCE Pacific Northwest Writers Association, Blake Snyder to speak Sunday.
- July 20: BOOK GROUP Cheeky Pages Romance Book Group discusses All Jacked Up by Penny McCall, 7 pm, Powell’s Cedar Hills Crossing.
- July 19: AUTHOR EOIN COLFER reading & book signing The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6), 7 pm
- July 28: AUTHOR NAOMI NOVIK reading and book signing of Victory of Eagles, 7pm, University Bookstore, Seattle. (FN)
- July 30-August 2: CONFERENCE Romance Writers of America National in San Francisco.
AUGUST
- August 1-3: CONFERENCE SpoCon with PATRICIA BRIGGS in attendance (OMG why does it have to be the same time as RWA???) (UF)
- August 1: BOOK RELEASE PARTY Bella’s Ball midnight release party for Breaking Dawn (Twilight saga, Book 4) by Stephanie Meyer. Costume contest, fun and games, donate blood! Powell’s City of Books Portland.
- August 5: AUTHOR KAT RICHARDSON reading & book signing Underground (Greywalker, Book 3), 7 pm University Bookstore Seattle. (UF)
- August 12: AUTHOR KAT RICHARDSON reading & book signing Underground (Greywalker, Book 3), noon, Seattle Mystery Bookstore. (UF)
- August 30: AUTHOR CAITLIN KITTREDGE reading & book signing Pureblood (Nocturne City, Book 2?), noon, Seattle Mystery Bookstore. (FN)
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
- October 10-12: CONFERENCE Emerald City Writers Conference in Bellevue (which, I point out again, is NOT the Emerald City).
- October 24-26: CONFERENCE MileHiCon featuring PATRICIA BRIGGS