This weekend commences the LAST official trip of this Book Tour That Never Ends:
First off, I’ll be at the Miami Bookfair, doing this panel:
Then it is off to Chicago for the ALAN conference, where I’ll be speaking on Monday. Then, home. Whew!
This week, I’ll be heading to Austin for the Texas Book Festival. It’s my first time going but I’ve heard GREAT things so I’m totally excited. The official site of the festival is here.
Here’s where I’ll be:
Saturday, October 22nd, 3:30-4:30 pm
Sarah Dessen and Libba Bray in conversation
First United Methodist Church’s Family Life Center 1300 Lavaca St.
Austin, TX 78701
Signing at the Book Sales and Signing tent to follow
I’ll also be at the YA Event that evening at the Texas State Cemetery.
Hope to see you in Austin!
This week, I’m heading to Toronto for some bookstore events. I am so excited! Here’s where I’ll be:
Wednesday, September 21st, 7pm: talk and signing at Indigo, Eaton Centre
Thursday, September 22nd, 7pm: talk and signing at North York Central Library
Then I am off to the National Book Festival in Washington, DC:
Saturday, September 24th 10:55-11:40: talk and Q&A
12:30-1:30: signing
For more festival details, you can go to the official schedule here.
Hope to see you there!
I am REALLY excited to finally be able to officially announce my Canada events. Yay!
Wednesday, September 21st, 7pm: talk and signing at Indigo, Eaton Centre
Thursday, September 22nd, 7pm: talk and signing at North York Central Library
I’ll also be at the National Book Festival in DC in the days following the Canada trip. More details when I have them…..
I’ll be attending ALA 2011 in New Orleans from June 24th-26th. If you’re coming, here’s where I’ll be:
Friday, June 24th:
4pm YALSA Pre-Conference panel with Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler at the JW Marriott on Canal Street. (SO looking forward to this!)
Saturday, June 25th
10am-11am: Signing at Penguin booth, #1416
11:30-12:30: Signing at Baker and Taylor booth, #2049
1pm-2pm: Octavia Books In-Store Autographing
513 Octavia Street, New Orleans
Sunday, June 26th
9am: YALSA Coffee Klatch, J.W. Marriott on Canal Street
Then I go home, unplug, and disappear for awhile. Or try to, anyway……
So we’re about to start round two of the WHAT HAPPENED TO GOODBYE tour. Here’s a list of where I’ll be this summer:
Then, in September, I’ll be doing some dates in Toronto, as well as the National Book Festival. In October, I’ll be at the Texas Book Festival. Details will be posted as I have them! If you’re around, come out and say hello…..
WHAT HAPPENED TO GOODBYE, my tenth book, is out on May 10th. We’re celebrating with a kickoff event at The Regulator Bookshop, in Durham, NC. Then I hit the road. Will I be coming to a store near you? Look and see…..
Sarah Dessen’s WHAT HAPPENED TO GOODBYE Tour
Sarah Dessen’s WHAT HAPPENED TO GOODBYE Tour
Durham, NC
The Regulator Bookshop – 720 Ninth St – Tuesday, May 10, 7pm
Boulder, CO
Boulder Bookstore – 1107 Pearl Street – Wednesday, May 11, 7pm
Highlands Ranch, CO
Tattered Cover– 9315 Dorchester Street – Thursday, May 12, 7pm
Salt Lake City, UT
The King’s English at 15th Street Framery, 1519 So 1500 East – Friday, May 13, 7pm
Raleigh, NC
Quail Ridge Books & Music – 3522 Wade Avenue – Monday, May 16, 7pm
Naperville, IL
Anderson’s Bookshop – 123 West Jefferson – Tuesday, May 17, 7pm
Omaha, NE
The Bookworm at Millard Branch Library, 13214 Westwood Lane – Wednesday, May 18, 7pm
Dallas, TX
Dallas Museum of Art – Horchow Auditorium, 1717 N. Harwood – Sunday, May 22, 3pm
Carle Place, NY
Barnes & Noble – 91 Old Country Road – Monday, May 23, 7pm
Pittsboro, NC
McIntyre’s Books at the Chatham County Community Library, 197 NC HWY 87N- Thursday, May 26th, 7pm
Bethesda, MD
Politics & Prose at The Bethesda Library, 7400 Arlington Road – Thursday, June 16, 5pm
Houston, TX
Blue Willow Bookshop at The Refuge – 13150 Memorial Drive – Friday, June 17, 7pm
**Please note that there will be a canned food drive, all donations welcome!**
Chapel Hill, NC
Flyleaf Books—Monday, June 20th, 7pm
Asheville, NC
Malaprop’s Bookstore – 55 Haywood Street – Wednesday, August 3, 7pm
Okay, so somehow it is now 2011. How did THAT happen? I’m not quite sure.
What I DO know, however, is that I have a new book coming out this summer. It’s called What Happened to Goodbye, and it will be published on May 10, 2011. Tour plans and other fun stuff are still being finalized, but when I do know anything, I’ll put it up here, my main blog, and anywhere else I possibly can.
Stay tuned!
Okay, I don’t even know how to BEGIN to explain my super-long absence from this blog. Or maybe I do. There was writing, and a toddler to chase around. Holidays and then more writing and more chasing. And then LOTS more writing. Oh, and one beach trip, followed by more writing. But finally, better late than never at all, here I am.
The big news is that because of all that writing, I’ll have a new book out next year. It will be released in May 2011, and the title is a BIT in flux, but when I know it, I’ll post it here. Why so far away? Well, there’s editing, and after two books in two years, I wanted to take a break from promotion and book tour stuff to just try and chill out a little bit. (Chilling out with a two and a half year old, though, is a bit different than it was post-parenthood. Wouldn’t have it any other way, though.)
In the meantime, I judged the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest (which was SO fun) and shot a new video for Along for the Ride and summer reading (which I’ll post when it’s fully done). Along for the Ride will be in stores all summer, in a new edition with bonus material, including a map of Colby, my personal summer playlist, and an essay I wrote about why I love the summer so much and what it means to me.
What else? Well, it’s summer, so I’m rocking my flip flops, making deviled eggs, and getting to the beach as much as I possibly can. Stacking books to read and trying to perfect my potato salad. If you want more details about what’s going on, check out my main blog, or follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sarahdessen, both of which I promise I update more often than this page.
I hope you all have a great summer!
Sarah
I’ll be in Philadelphia from November 21-23 for the NCTE conference and a couple of bookstore events. Here’s where I’ll be:
11/21 Saturday
1:15 Author Strand presentation
with Michelle Kwansey
Convention Center room 103A
3pm Signing at Penguin Booth, #318
11/22 Sunday
9:00am Chester County Book & Music Company Author Breakfast
Chester County Books, West Chester PA
1:00 “A Novel Idea” Teen Event for Philadelphia Free Library at Children’s Book World
Children’s Book World
Haverford, PA
11/23 Monday
8:50 am ALAN panel with Deb Caletti, Todd Strasser and Adrian Fogelin
