Author Events This Week in Salt Lake City Area

In the Salt Lake City area?  I know a lot of my readers are so I thought I’d give a heads up to two author events that I’ll be attending this week.  Let me know if you’ll be there.
First up, David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife will be at the King’s English Bookshop this [...]

The Tale of Shannon Hale and a . . . Zucchini (????)

Too much fun!  Saturday I went to Rapunzel’s Roundup, a release party of sorts for Shannon Hale’s new book Rapunzel’s Revenge, co-authored with her husband Dean Hale and illustrated by Nathan Hale (no relation).  The fun started with a reenactment from the book presented by Shannon, Dean and Nathan.  Right before they start Nathan’s sister [...]

In Salt Lake on Saturday? Meet Me at the Library!

So if you live in Utah and follow any of our local authors blogs (Shannon Hale, Sara Zarr, James Dashner, to name just a very few – we are so very blessed to have a lot of great authors here) then I am sure that you already know about Rapunzel’s Roundup this Saturday.  No?  Shannon [...]

Authors Here, Authors There, Authors Everywhere!

After my Friday evening at Stephenie Meyer’s book signing, my husband and I packed up the kids and headed to the Provo Children’s Book Festival. How could we not show up? It was free and all kinds of authors were just waiting for us to show up and meet them.
As soon as we arrived, [...]

My Evening Spent with Stephenie Meyer

Let me tell you something. Stephenie Meyer is one amazing person. I was fortunate to attend a book signing for The Host on Friday night. I volunteered for the event which meant that for two hours prior to start time (people showed up six hours early!) I directed people to the bathroom [...]