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French, German, and Australian Tour Events

Here's the final list of these tour events* this year**: 



 *PLEASE double check with the venue to confirm all times before traveling long distances! Also, I'm happy to sign as many books as you bring, venue permitting, but I do ask that if there are books for sale there, you buy one from the hosting store as well to reimburse them for having an author event there. Thanks!



**I'm also going to be in the UK for a 10 day tour in November, but I don't have details yet. I will also have West Coast dates in October (Portland and California), so I'll post those details when I get them too.



August 29

Melbourne Writer's Festival

details here.

"Why I Read" - 10:00-10:45 a.m.



"Meet the Author" - 12:30-1:15 p.m.



August 30

Melbourne Writer's Festival

details here.

"Meet the Author" - 10:00-10:45 a.m..



September 1

Discussion & Signing

Dymocks, Melville

6:30 PM

Details here



September 2

Discussion & Signing

Dymocks, Melbourne

234 Collins Street

5:30 PM

Details here



September 3

10.30 am – 11.30 am

Readings Bookshop

701 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn

Tel: 03 9819 1917



September 5

Discussion & Signing

Books Kinokuniya

Level 2: The Galleries

500 George Street

Sydney

6:00 PM



September 7

Brisbane Writers Festival

Breezeway, Mairwar – State Library of Qld

9.45 am – 10.30 am

Session: Wild Words panel

Panel with Margo Lanagan, Peter Stanley and Maggie

Details here



12.30 pm – 1.15pm

Breezeway, Mairwar – State Library of Qld

Grades 8 - 10 (400 kids)

Session: Meet Maggie Stiefvater



September 8

Brisbane Writers Festival

Breezeway, Mairwar – State Library of Qld

9.30 am – 10.30 am

Session: Meet Maggie Stiefvater



September 9

Brisbane Writers Festival

The Edge – State Library of Qld

9.45 am to 10.30 am

Session: Stories that move: book trailers



Panel with Tristan Bancks and Maggie

12.30pm to 2.15 pm

The Edge – State Library of Qld

Wordshop: Creating Characters workshop



September 10

Brisbane Writers Festival

Workshop: Writing for Young Adults

10am to 12 noon



German details here.



14. September: Hamburg

16.00 Uhr: Harbour Front Festival, Christianskirche, Klopstockplatz 2



15. September: Bamberg

20.00 Uhr: Hübscher Buch und Medienhaus, Grüner Markt 16

VVK in der Buchhandlung Tel: 0951/9822522



16. September: Freising

15.00 Uhr: Kino Camera, Obere Hauptstraße 54

VVK: Bücher Pustet, Obere Hauptstraße 45, Tel: 08161/537730



16. September: Ingolstadt


19.30 Uhr: Thalia Buchhandlung in den City Arcaden, Ludwigstraße 25

VVK in der Buchhandlung, Tel.: 0841/9938770



23 September: Paris

Event with Cate Tiernan

VIRGIN GRAND BOULEVARDS

6:30-8:00 p.m.



24 September: Bordeaux

Event with Cate Tiernan

LIBRAIRIE MOLLAT

4:00-6:00 p.m.

So Now We Come to the End (Well, Sort of)

And by "end," I mean the end of the FOREVER U.S. tour. And by "sort of," I mean that I'm heading off for my Australian, German, and French tour dates in two and a half weeks (details on that here) so that means I'm practically still on tour.



But still, it's end of the road trip part of the tour, and I first of all have to say a huge thanks to you guys. 75% of every audience was people I knew from my blog or Twitter or Facebook, and it was fantastic to be able to meet people have been with me for this entire crazy journey.



I know there were still a lot of blog readers who didn't get to see me at one of my tour stops, and I wanted to do something for folks who couldn't make it to an event. I have some leftover Fun Things from the tour. Namely, these things:



A few keychains.


My cool keychains! Made of genuine pleather! If you want one, just take a picture of yourself holding one of my books and send it to me along with a self addressed, stamped envelope, and I'll mail a keychain back to you. I get a smiling face, you get a keychain. Send all those here: P. O. Box 1448, King George, VA 22485. I'll keep sending them out until they're all gone.



Speaking of things that were sent in the mail, I did come home to this in my mail box.



IMG_2814




ARE YOU SURE IT'S REALLY MY CAR?



ticket




I suppose it is. FINE. But I'll have you know, I never speed.



Well.



It's finally starting to sink in that FOREVER is the end of the trilogy and the U.S. tour is all done: 17 tour stops, 2 co-pilots, 238 gallons of gas, 4,000 miles, and one air conditioning condensing coil later. Here's the last video of the tour, with music courtesy of Brad Sucks (huge thanks to Brad -- if you love the song, please find it on iTunes or wherever you buy music!)







And if you missed the other tour videos, here are the links.



1. The Ringing Rocks of Pennsylvania



2. Into Every Life, a Little Construction Must Fall



3. A Day in the Life



4. Caves, Geodes, and Other Nifty Things



5. Look at that Animal!



6. Hotels with Lifeboats and Beds with Ladders



7. Nordic Style!



8. Maggie and Tessa at Wild Rumpus



9. Lions, Tigers, and . . . Binturongs?



Now, just to finish that novel and THE SCORPIO RACES book trailer before I leave for Australia.



Wisconsin

Lions and Tigers and Binturongs, Oh My!

On the 2nd, I had the very fortunate opportunity to tour the Conservators Center outside of Raleigh, NC, before my event at Quail Ridge Books. Those of you who know me at all know that there's nothing I like better than poking fingers at animals, and rumor had it they had wolves and lions and lemurs, most of them rehabilitated from closed zoos, failed exotic pet owners, and road accidents. A huge thanks to Tom and Bonnie for making this happen, and also to Mindy and Kim for sharing their time and expertise with us.

One of the animals Mindy was proudest of was the binturong. I'd never heard of them, which amazed me because of the sheer number of hours I logged in front of National Geographic as a child. But Mindy explained to me that they were crucial for the existence of the rainforest. Here is some Binturong arithmetic.

biturong arithmetic


The binturong eats the strangler fig, poops it out minus the seed casing, and up grows a rainforest. No bintorong equals no poop equals no strangler fig equals only Wal-Marts.

What a useful animal!

You can see more useful animals (and also hear one of the more impressive auditory events in my life) in the video.




And the Conservators Center is open for tours and runs on donations, so please consider one or the other! I would love to take Thing 1 & 2 back there.

Why Are There So Many Chickens On This Tour?

In which we have an event at Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis, MN.




And if you're in the Nashville area, I have an event at the Nashville Public Library on Sunday at 3 p.m.: details here.

Here are 10 Things I Did on My Summer Vacation

And by summer vacation, I mean, last five days.

1. Had two events in Minnesota, one in Miami, one in Kansas City, and one in St. Louis, all populated by fantastic people who knew who I was.

2. Embraced Lover for the first time in 15 days, as he flew in to Minneapolis to take over co-pilot duties from Tessa.

3. Tried to fit Tessa, Natalie, Lover, and I and Tessa, Natalie, Lover, and my luggage into Loki for the drive through Iowa.

Trying to Fit Four People into Loki


4. Rented a car.

5. Finally bought a GPS.

6. Ignored the GPS.

7. Simmered when, 50 miles outside St. Louis, the air conditioning on Loki suddenly stopped working.

8. Discovered a giant hole in Loki’s air conditioning condenser.

9. While still in St. Louis, found a place with a part to fix Loki’s air conditioning.

10. In Nashville, my next tour stop. Six hours away.

It’s going to be a long drive.

While I sweat, you can watch a video of Tessa and I in Wisconsin, trying to determine where all these Vikings came from.

Hotels with Lifeboats and Beds with Ladders

While in St. Paul, MN, on the FOREVER tour, Tessa and I picked up Natalie Parker and my husband Ed and then we slept on a boat. Evidence:




Also, I'll be at Rainy Day Books in Kansas City tonight, and at the St. Louis Public Library tomorrow. Remember to say hi and tell me you're a blog reader if you are!

Wythe, Corn, and Goats

So it is day 13 of my 3,700 mile road trip book tour for FOREVER, and we have been from Virginia to Philly to Syracuse to Canada to Michigan to Chicago to Wisconsin and now we're in Minnesota on a boat.

Wisconsin was gorgeous.

Wisconsin

Driving through Pennsylvania earlier had put us in mind of the painters Wythe: 


And Wisconsin inspired us.

Tessa's World

Also, have some goat milking. We stayed at the Rainbow Ridge Farms, where Donna, Cindy, and Maria were very happy to teach us how to milk a goat. A huge thanks to them and if you ever have the opportunity to stay with them, TAKE IT.

Caves, Geodes, and Hitting things with Hammers: Day 10 (?)



Today we're driving to Minneapolis, where I'll fly briefly to Miami tomorrow for a This is Teen! event with Meg Cabot and Libba Bray. Details on that here!

And I'm editing a video involving vikings and goats now.

A Day In the Life of A Touring Author

Tonight we're on to Madison, WI's event, but while we spend the next few hours driving there, you can watch the trials and tribulations from our drive and event in Naperville yesterday.




Also . . . I just found out that UK readers have made FOREVER #1 in the UK.

WOW.


THANK YOU GUYS, SO MUCH!!!!!

I'm sure there would be more exclamation points if I could BELIEVE IT.

Day 5-7 of FOREVER Tour: Three Impressive Canadian Things

TorontoMabel's Fables WindowSo it is day seven of the FOREVER road trip tour (in case you're just tuning in, it is my 3,700 mile road trip book tour for FOREVER, and the places are here) and my co pilot (Tessa Gratton) and I have just gotten done with the Canadian leg of our journey. It began in Toronto and headed through Oshawa and London, with insanely huge and wonderful crowds at all of them.

So, there was a lot of the Canadian trip that was impressive to me (things like our hotel room having two bathrooms, Scholastic Canada being incredible, and Canadian fuel being more expensive than All The Things), but three things really stood out to me. First of all, they let me sign not only books, but walls:

Mabel's Fables wall

That is the wall at Mabel's Fables. It was delightfully satisfying.

The second impressive thing is that they have strange road signs. Some of them are merely unusually regal.

Signs with big hats

Royally directed

Some, however, stood for things that Americans don't seem to encounter.

Trucks With Failed Brakes Ahead

This sign means: TRUCKS WITH FAILED BRAKES AHEAD.

Do Not Fly Your Car Here

There were these signs everywhere. DANGER DUE TO OVERHEAD WIRES is what they say, but they didn't advise what I was supposed to do with this knowledge. Was this a recommendation to dodge or a warning to not fly my car in this area? Are many Canadians felled by high wires on the highway?

Which way is overhead?

This sign helpfully pointed out where we could locate "overhead."

Alien Abduction Zone Ahead

Do you see the pictogram on the far right? That means ALIEN ABDUCTION ZONE AHEAD.

Do Not Cross the Film Strip

DO NOT CROSS THE FILM STRIP.

Begin Quilting Zone

QUILTING AREA AHEAD.

This Sign is New!

THIS SIGN IS NEW.

Canadian Safaris

I . . . don't know.

Even the road cones were different in Canada. This cone represents how Tessa and I felt before we hit the traffic outside Toronto.

Road barrel, proud.

And this one represents how we felt after.


Road barrel, defeated.

So, the final thing that impressed me about Canada? 

Parking the Camaro in London, Ontario


They let me park on the sidewalk.

parked on the sidewalk, London, Ontario


Best country ever.



Tomorrow? Onto Chicago for an event tomorrow evening.

FOREVER TOUR: Into Every Life, a Little Construction Must Fall

Just in case you were wondering just what it was like to be in the Camaro during the FOREVER road trip tour.





ETA: Today is my last Canadian event, the final one to enter the raffle for the last Sharpie guitar:

Sharpie Guitar #4

The last event is at 2:00 p.m. in London, Ontario. Details here.

Day Three of the FOREVER tour: The Hammer & Tire Iron Edition

On Day Three, after a lovely event in Philly, Tessa and I made our way from our delightful haunted bed and breakfast (SEE OUR GHOST FOOTAGE HERE!) to the Ringing Rocks of Pennsylvania.



Then it was onward to Syracuse. Oh and that is a video all to itself.

Forever Tour, Day One, in Photos

So I have crashed for the evening after an incredible, incredible launch party in Tyson's Corner and I'm sort of so tired that Tessa (Gratton) and I just spent 40 minutes staring at the room service card trying to decide how to order eggs and a pot of tea in the morning, but the day was too cool not to share. But I have no more words, so photos will have to do.

Old Loki and BlueLoki. Old Loki is getting ready to be sold and BlueLoki is getting ready to be packed.

BlueLoki and Old Loki

These things must all go into the car. Including that girl and that hammer.

Packing for the tour!

People at the launch! They were fantastic (well, some of them were you reading this. you were fantastic).

People at the launch!

More peoples at the event.

Launch!!

I gave away the Sharpie guitar to a lucky raffle winner!!

Guitar winner!

I am not good at looking professional when Tessa photographs me!

Happy at her work

We gave away a lot of swag!

Is that really my face?

Sulaiman Azimi sang his version of "Summer Girl" for the crowd.






More to come, as always, including video hijinks. Tomorrow is Philly. Goal: Stop having traumatic flashbacks to Ferris Bueller's Day Off every time we have to valet park BlueLoki.

Thanks, guys, for making the launch such a memorable experience . . . what an amazing, amazing few years this has been.

Square Peg. Camaro-Shaped Hole.

I am packing for my tour tomorrow (all dates and locations HERE) and I am beginning to think I might have some problems.

It began on Friday, when this arrived from my crazy and wonderful Scholastic publicist:

Apologetic list from Scholastic

And then the DHL man came and brought:


900 key chains
A few keychains.

About the same number of This is Teen flash drives

A few flash drives

And then the UPS man came later that day and brought yet more boxes which contained:

Tons of THE SCORPIO RACES post cards (which I'll be using a few of for Postcard to a Stranger on tour)

Post cards

Some This is Teen post cards

More post cards

Some stickers

Signed by stickers

Which wouldn't be a problem except I'm already bringing

a bunch of Linger tank tops to give away at the launch party in Tyson's Corner tomorrow.

Some LINGER tank tops

A bunch of wolf cut outs from the FOREVER trailer to give away at the launch party.

Wolf Cut Outs from the FOREVER trailer

Two Sharpie-d on guitars to give away, one at the launch party in Tyson's Corner, and one in Canada (for Canadians hoping to win the Sharpie guitar, you can enter to win it at all THREE Canadian locations, and they'll contact the winner after the events to give you the guitar)(seems fair, right?)

The Sharpie Guitars

Also, I am going to pick up this from the airport in a few hours, and it has to fit in too.


That's Tessa Gratton, my co-pilot for the first half of the trip.

So, minus Tessa, two boxes of foreign editions of Shiver for giveaway, my 17 black tank tops and 6 pairs of jeans that is my wardrobe, and all of my camera equipment for the videos of alpacas and ringing rocks and hilarity I will be making, this is kind of what the pile looks like.

Everything but the dog

Well, not the dog. But everything else.

And it must fit into here.

Packing the Car

Well, more precisely, here.

Things Must Fit In This Trunk


Oh, I can so make that work.

The Giant Maggie Appearances List - Updates

All right, this is going to be a monster of a post, and if you are totally disinterested in coming to see me at a bookstore or library or random popsicle stand, I apologize. Because what this is is an updated list of every place that I'm scheduled to be in 2011 at the moment, ESPECIALLY for my Giant Road Trip Tour for FOREVER in July and my This is Teen with Meg Cabot and Libba Bray (those four events are in blue) (only because I read somewhere that blue is calming).

Just yesterday I was telling someone I felt like my summer and fall was going to be insane, and that I felt like I'd never be home. Then I did the math (I was a history major, so my version of math involves me opening a calendar and laboriously counting each day by hand) and discovered that, indeed, I only had 90 days left in 2011 that I would be home. Thank goodness I'm taking my kids on some of my trips, and Lover on others, and my car on still others. The only things I'll miss are the dogs and the cookie dough.

This is what happens when you drive all over the world to have Capers and Shenanigans.

And here is where those Capers and Shenanigans will be happening. (full list is always updated first on Facebook).

Monday, June 13 — 7:00 PM
Books Inc. Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA

Wednesday, June 15 · 7:00pm
Anderson's Bookshop
Wentz Hall - North Central College
Naperville, IL
630-355-2665

Thursday, June 16 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Wellesley Books
Wellesley Middle School, 50 Kingsbury Street
Wellesley, Massachusetts
781-431-1160

Sharpie Guitar #4Tuesday, July 12th—7 PM
B&N 2238: Tyson’s Corner
7851 L Tyson's Corner Center
McLean, VA 22102
For more information call: (703) 506-2937
**Will be raffling a Sharpie Guitar at this event - Also, live music by Sulaiman Azimi**

Wednesday, July 13th—12-1 PM
Children’s Book World
17 Station Road
Haverford, PA 19041
For more information call: (610) 642-6274

Thursday, July 14th—7 PM
Barnes & Noble 2908: Dewitt
3454 Erie Boulevard East
Dewitt, NY 13214
For more information call: (315) 449-2948

Saturday, July 16th—12:00 PM
Chapters Oshawa
419 King Street West, Unit #1135
Oshawa, Ontario
L1J 2K5
Canada
For more information call: (905) 438-8593

Saturday, July 16th—6:00 PM
Indigo Yorkdale
3401 Dufferin Street Unit #29
Toronto, Ontario
M6A 2T9
Canada
For more information call: (416) 781-6660

Sharpie Guitar #4Sunday, July 17th—2 PM
Chapters South London
1037 Wellington Road,
London, Ontario
N6E 1W4
Canada
For more information call: (519) 685-1008
**There will also be a Sharpie guitar given away at this event! (details to come)**

Monday, July 18th—7 PM
Borders Novi
43075 Crescent Blvd
Novi, MI
For more information call: 248-347-0780

Tuesday, July 19th—7 PM
Anderson’s Bookshop
123 West Jefferson
Naperville, IL 60540
For more information call: 630-355-2665

Wednesday, July 20th—7 PM
Barnes & Noble 2720
7433 Mineral Point Road
Madison, WI 53717
For more information call: 608-827-0809

Saturday, July 23 · 7:00pm
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL
305-442-4408

Monday, July 25th—2 PM
Dakota County Wentworth Library (hosted by Red Balloon Bookshop)
199 East Wentworth Ave
West St. Paul, MN 55118
Please contact Red Balloon Bookshop with questions: 651-224-8320

Monday, July 25th—6 PM
Wild Rumpus
2720 W 43rd St
Minneapolis, MN 55410
For more information call: 612-920-5005

Wednesday, July 27th—7 PM
Unity Temple on The Plaza (hosted by Rainy Day Books)
707 W. 47th Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
Please contact Rainy Day Books with questions: 913-384-3126

Thursday, July 28th—7 PM
Pudd’n Head Books
37 South Old Orchard Avenue
Saint Louis, MO 63119
For more information call: (314) 918-1069

Sunday, July 31st—3 PM
Nashville Public Library
615 Church Street
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
For more information call: 615-862-5800

Monday, August 1st—7 PM
Little Shop of Stories
133A East Court Square
Decatur, Georgia 30030
For more information call: 404-373-6300

Tuesday, August 2nd—5 PM
Quail Ridge Books & Music
3522 Wade Ave
Raleigh NC 27607
For more information call: 919-828-7912

Friday, August 5th—7 PM
The College of William & Mary Bookstore
345 Duke of Gloucester Street
Williamsburg, VA 23185
For more information call: 757-253-4900

AUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER 10
Australia dates to come. I'll be at the Melbourne Writers' Festival, Brisbane Writers' Festival, and it also looks like I might be in Perth and Sydney to boot.

Week of September 12th.
Germany! I don't have locations yet, but will update when I do!

October
A few dates (west coasters, take heart!) being firmed up

November
UK!! Second week, details to come.