Appearances
UPCOMING:
April 22, 2012
I will be in Bristol for Diana Wynne Jones's Memorial Service.
Wednesday April 25, 2012
I'll be joining interested readers for a cup of coffee at the Starbucks across from the British Museum in London. If we take up too much room, we will move to the forecourt of the Museum. If the weather isn't nice, we will probably move into the atrium of the Museum. If you are a member of the Sounis community you can find out more over there or e-mail me: meganwhalenturner@harpercollins.com.
If you send an e-mail to let me know that you intend to come, I'll make sure to keep an eye out for you.
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
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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
OHIO
28801 Chagrin Blvd
Woodmere, OH 44122
216-765-7520
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, (July, 2011) 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 mind 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.