I am excited to announce that I will appearing be at this year’s Boskone, Friday, Feb. 13 through Sunday, Feb. 15, at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Boskone is New England’s longest running science fiction and fantasy convention. This will be my first time there.

I will be doing a reading, signing books, and participating in five panels. I’ll get to meet fans — so many wonderful fans! — and some incredible talent in the world of children’s books, science fiction, and fantasy. I’m really looking forward to it.

I’m scheduled to appear as follows (although there is a chance of last minute changes):

Friday 6:00 pm – 6:25 pm
I’ll be doing a reading.

Friday 7:00 pm – 7:50 pm
It’s Complicated: Kids and the Culture They Consume
A panel with Veronica Koven-Matasy, Bruce Coville, Lauren Roy, and Stacey Friedberg

Saturday 10:00 am – 10:50 am
KidLit: Great Spec Fic for Young Readers
A panel with Bruce Coville, Jordan Hamessley, Veronica Koven-Matasy, and Hillary Monahan

Saturday 12:00 pm – 12:50 pm
The Wonderful Worlds within Middle Grade Fiction
A panel with Ken Altabef, Stacey Friedberg, Jane Yolen, and Matthew London

Saturday 3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
Writing Great Openings
A panel with Paul Di Filippo, ML Brennan, Alexander Jablokov, and Michael Swanwick

Sunday 10:00 am – 10:50 am
I’ll be signing books with Leigh Perry, Darlene Marshall, and Karl Schroeder

Sunday 1:00 pm – 1:50 pm
YA Then and Now
A panel with Ken Altabef, Bruce Coville, Stacey Friedberg, and Veronica Koven-Matasy

General programming for the convention begins at 2:00 pm on Friday, February 13th and is free to the public from 2:00-6:00 pm. Memberships are required after 6:00 pm on Friday and throughout the duration of the convention. For more information visit www.boskone.org. …

This Wednesday, November 12, from 6 to 7:30pm, I will be at the Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford, giving a writers’ workshop along with writer and educator Doe Boyle and Donita Aruny from the Shoreline Arts Alliance. We will discuss writing for children as well as submitting to this year’s Tassy Walden Awards: New Voices in Children’s Literature.

The workshop is free and open to the public, although the Shoreline Arts Alliance does ask folks to preregister to ensure that there are enough handouts.…

I’ll be at the 2014 New England Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators regional conference in Springfield, MA this Friday May 2 through Sunday May 4.

In addition to a host of panels I plan on attending, I should be at Friday evening’s Meet and Greet, the Volunteer Pizza Party on Saturday, and the Self-Portrait Party for Illustrators Saturday evening (no, I’m not an illustrator, but this sounded too fun to miss).

If you happen to run into me, be sure to say hello!…