After C2E2, my first con of the year, the pandemic crashed all my planned in-person appearances. But! VIRTUAL EVENTS! You can still come “meet” me this year, and from the comfort of your own computer!
This page will be updated dynamically as my schedule solidifies.
- Monday, April 27, all day: Come join me at r/Fantasy for a Reddit AMA! This will also have a giveaway in which 2 winners with the most interesting questions (as judged by me!) will win all three of the books in the Cas Russell series so far. The post will go up around mid-morning, and then I’ll be answering questions all day.
- Tuesday, April 28, 1pm Central Time: Virtual signing at Worldbuilders! Preorder a book to be signed here (personalized if you want). The livestream will be on the Worldbuilders Facebook page. You can find more details here.
- Wednesday, April 29, 10am Pacific Time: Second Life Bookclub! Join me in Second Life on Book Club Island, where I’ll be having a one-on-one interview with host Draxtor. No avatar? No problem — the book club will also be livestreamed. All details are here.
- Friday, May 15, 4pm Mountain Time: Virtual event with Yoon Ha Lee at The Book Bungalow! We will be chatting and taking Q&A from the audience. Come hang with us! Full event details and registration info available here.
- Saturday-Sunday May 16-17: I’m slated to be a participant at Flights of Foundry, a virtual con run by Dream Foundry. Tickets are free or by donation, and the guests of honor are FABULOUS, so come on down and give it a look! Registration is here and you can see my exact schedule here, including a reading that 15 people are already signed up for (eep!) and panels I’m doing with amazing fellow authors like Ken Liu, Becky Chambers, Suzanne Walker, and K. Tempest Bradford (and many more). My sessions:
- Saturday, May 16, 4pm Central: “Adaptations and Remix Culture”
- Sunday, May 17, 8am Central: Reading
- Sunday, May 17, 11am Central: “Building Characters”
- Sunday, May 17, 12pm Central: Kaffeeklatsch (full)
- Sunday, May 17, 8pm Central: “#Squadgoals: Group Dynamics in Fiction”
- Monday, May 18, 6pm Central Time: I’m at another virtual bookstore event for indie bookstore Tubby & Coo’s! Event information here. Interview and Q&A from the audience!
- Wednesday, May 27, 10am Pacific Time: Back in the Second Life Bookclub’s virtual reality world to discuss the Avatars, Inc. anthology, along with Ann VanderMeer and Eric Desatnik. Info here!
- Friday-Sunday June 5-7: At the Renaissance Virtual Conference! Check out the full programming here and click to register for any panels you’d like to attend! My list of panels is:
- Friday, June 5, 6pm Eastern: “Queer Futurisms”
- Friday, June 5, 7 pm Eastern: “Authors in Quarantine”
- Saturday, June 6, 10am Eastern: “The Apocalypse wasn’t what we expected”
- Saturday, June 6, 4pm Eastern: “The book was better… or was it? The art of adaptation”
- Saturday, June 6, 7pm Eastern: “Launching a book during a global crisis”
- Sunday, June 7, 1:30pm Eastern: “Speculating on Queer Worlds”
- Saturday, June 13, 5pm Eastern Time: As part of TorCon, I’m going to be on a panel with other Tor authors that’s a sort of mishmash of improv and communal storytelling from prompts. It should be chaos! I hope it will be! Full schedule and links to register here.
- Saturday, June 20, 3pm Eastern Time: I’ll be on Essence of Wonder’s live show. Check back here for more details!
- Texas Library Association virtual panel with Bryan Washington — this has been recorded; will update when I see it’s posted.
- June 29-August 2 New Zealand Time: Worlcon! I was there. A thing might have happened. I got my schedule too late and was in too much of a scramble to update here, sorry.
- Tuesday, August 4, 12pm Central Time: On Worldbuilders Weekly! Catch the recording here.
- Saturday, August 15, 11am Eastern Time: Metaverse Con panel called “Tor Presents: Chaos & Cosmos,” with Alaya Dawn Johnson, Jenn Lyons, and Ryan Van Loan, moderated by Natalie Zutter. Sorry, I was late on posting this one too, but you can catch the recording here: https://www.findthemetaverse.com/watch/71tKblrkF5U
- Saturday, August 15, 3pm Eastern Time: Panel at ReCONvene called “Exploring the Literary Sandbox of Speculative Fiction,” with Melanie Meadors, Chris Barkley, Zig Zag Claybourne, and Julia Rios.
- Wednesday, August 19, 7pm Eastern Time: Event at Read It Again Bookstore! Find the information here, and join us live on YouTube!
- Wednesday, August 26, 5:30pm Central Time: Event at Front Street Books! Find it here!
- Wednesday, September 23, 6:30pm Central Time: “Future Telling: Math and Physics are My Superpowers” — a conversation with physicist Rebecca C. Thompson about math, physics, swords, fiction, and geeking out. (Recording to come.)
- Thursday, October 1, 7pm Eastern Time MOUNTAIN TIME: Event at Rediscovered Books. Find the information here! (Very sorry to my newsletter subscribers — I put the wrong timezone for this in the newsletter. EEK)
- Wednesday, October 7, 6:30pm Pacific Time: Event at Ballast Books. Find the information here!
- Saturday-Sunday October 17-18: I’m a panelist at FIYAHcon! Schedule to come.
- Saturday, October 24: I’m a panelist at the Boston Book Festival. See me at:
- 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Eastern Time: “Fiction: Timeless Tales” with Andrea Hairston, Gregory Maguire, Lauren Rizzuto
- Note that this is on the same day as Outpost Con below (this panel is at 9:30 am Central Time, so a few hours before my panels at Outpost).
- Saturday, October 24: I’m a panelist at Outpost Con, with the following two panels:
- 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm Central Time: Writing & Publishing: “Diversifying Available Voices” with Neil Clarke, Yoon Ha Lee, Arley Sorg
- 5:00 pm – 5:50 pm Central Time: “Where’s My Robot Butler? Next Steps in AI Development” with Gordon Tarpley, Jamie Banks, Fon Davis
- Note that the schedule on the site customizes to timezone, so the above times are in Central (my timezone) but they’ll likely show up automatically in your own timezone.
Yikes, I forgot to add some of these till after the fact. Sorry!! TRYING TO BE BETTER
Note added 9/28/20: I’ve started turning down almost all events that don’t come through my publisher, and am likely to turn down all (or nearly all) events after October because I really, really need a break. So if you want to come see me or ask questions, October’s the time.