Appearances
UPCOMING:
CLEVELAND
Sept. 1, 2010
7:00 p.m.
I'll be at the Coventry Branch of the Cleveland Heights Public Library helping to kick off this year's series of talks with local authors and to celebrate the publication of What Happened on Fox Street by debut author Patricia Springstubb.
BOSTON
October 1, 2010
At Simmons College, there will be an awards ceremony for the Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards. A Conspiracy of Kings is an Honor Book in the Fiction category. I will give a teeny-tiny speech, mostly consisting of Thank You Thank You Thank You.
October 2, 2010
The next day, I will be participating in a one day Colloquium, The Horn Book at Simmons, where I will talk for much longer on the theme of collaboration between readers . . . or something. I'm still working on it.
ORLANDO
November 18-21, 2010
I will be at the NCTE Conference in Orlando in November.
ONLINE:
HarperCollins Interview Video http://www.awesomeadventurebooks.com/sightssounds.aspx#video=5
HarperCollins Podcast
http://www.awesomeadventurebooks.com/sightssounds.aspx#sound=5
An interview with hipwritermama for the 2009 Winter Blog Blast Tour:
http://hipwritermama.blogspot.com/2009/11/wbbt-megan-whalen-turner.html
A conversation with Shannon Hale:
http://oinks.squeetus.com/2007/09/squeetus-excl-2.html
http://oinks.squeetus.com/2007/10/megan-whalen-tu.html
http://oinks.squeetus.com/2007/10/megan-whalen--1.html
With R.J. Anderson at The Enchanted Inkpot
With Chersti Nieveen at Literary Life Notes
PREVIOUS:
Please check with the bookstores mentioned below for signed copies of my books.
SAN DIEGO
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
7051 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92111-1040
(858) 268-4747
Yellow Book Road
7200 Parkway Dr., Suite 118
La Mesa CA 91942
(619) 463-4900
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
The Other Change of Hobbit
3264 Adeline St
Berkeley, CA 94703
(510) 848-0413
Kepler's Bookstore
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4358
(650) 324-4321
BOSTON
Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 661-1515
http://www.harvard.com/
A Bit of a Biography
For those of you who have to write reports for school, I will say that I was born in 1965 and I have siblings, all of them older, which makes me the baby of the family. We had a pet cat when I was growing up. He died a long time ago, but I think he is living his next life with the author of Tithe, Holly Black. I have seen pictures and her White Cat appears too similar for mere coincidence. I moved around a lot while I was growing up and I still do. I am married. My husband, Mark Turner, is a professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. We've been living in Southern California for a year, but now we are back in Ohio. Next summer, we plan to move to Norway. No kidding. After a year there, it will be back to Ohio, heigh-ho, heigh-ho.
I graduated from The University of Chicago with a BA in English Language and Literature with honors in 1987. I worked as a bookseller for seven or eight years before I started writing. My first book was a collection of short stories called Instead of Three Wishes. My first novel was The Thief, which was awarded a Newbery Honor in 1997.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. My e-mail address and snail mail address are under Contacts. I don't like to post a lot of information about myself, and I'd rather that you didn't either, but I usually answer questions when asked. I love getting envelopes in the mail, but truthfully, I am much more reliable about answering the e-mails. [edited to add: It's gotten to the point that I am beyond unreliable with the snail mail. I apologize, but there's very little chance I will answer a written letter. They keep getting lost.]
Please, don't send me books and ask me to sign them. The spirit is willing but the consciousness is very disorganized. I'm happy to sign books if you buy them from a bookseller near me. I'll drop by and sign them and some reliable person at the store can mail them to you. Send me an e-mail if you would like to arrange this. Bookstores I've visited recently will usually have signed copies for a while afterwards.