This one will be fun: My first Chicago-proper event for The Hundred-Year House will be Saturday, August 9th at 7 pm at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square. The event is cosponsored by StoryStudio Chicago, and there will be some kind of in-conversation-with thing and there will be wine, and it will be good.

On Tuesday, August 26th I'll be appearing at the Warren-Newport Public Library in Gurnee, IL for a reading, discussion and signing, with book sales by Lake Forest Book Store. This is one of my favorite libraries, an easy drive for people on the north end of the North Shore. We'll start things up at 7 […]

The only event I've ever been part of that includes a scavenger hunt. I'll be reading at 8:00, but the scavenger hunt and secret dinner start at 6:00. I'm going to mess up describing this, so please just click here.

I'll be discussing "Family Secrets" with Sarah Creech, author of Season of the Dragonflies, at the Decatur (GA) Book Festival. The discussion, moderated by Holly Firfer of CNN, will take place on Saturday, August 30th at 1:45 pm on the Old Courthouse Stage, with a signing following at 2:30. The festival runs from Friday, August […]

I'll be reading with Cristina Henriquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans, at the Harold Washington Library Center (400 S. State Street) in Chicago on Tuesday, September 9th at 6 pm. The event is presented by the Society of Midland Authors. The event is free and open to the public; more information is here.

Part of The Hundred-Year House is set in 1929. All of Renee Rosen's novel Dollface is set in the 1920s. So obviously we need to have a speakeasy night at City Lit Books. There will be specialty 20's cocktails from North Shore Distillery. Costumes encouraged but not required. It'll be the cat's pajamas.

I'll be appearing at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference in Lexington, KY on September 12th and 13th -- giving a craft talk ("Ending it All") in two parts (10:15-11:15 both days), and participating in a panel on Alice Munro. Registration is required for the conference.

I'll be reading at one of my absolute favorite local indies, The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, IL at 7 pm on Thursday, September 18th. There are at least two wine bars within walking distance. It will be lovely.

I'll be appearing in Nashville, TN at the Southern Festival of Books, which runs from Friday, October 10th to Sunday, October 12th. You can see me from 2 to 3 pm on Saturday, the 11th, along with Maggie Shipstead and Bret Anthony Johnston, on the panel "Backward Through Time: Fiction and Reckoning." We'll be in […]

I'll be reading and signing and smelling all the books at the Vernon Area Library in Lincolnshire, IL at 7 pm on Tuesday, October 14th. Free and open to the public.