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2024 Events

• Wednesday, April 17, 6:00 - 7:30 pm, Parker, CO: Douglas County Libraries Writers’ Workshop, “Setting as Character.”

• Saturday, June 8, Englewood, CO: Englewood Public Library Author Festival: Community, author talks, food, and more. Additional info coming soon!

• Monday, June 10, 4 - 6 pm, Denver, CO: Lighthouse Writers Lit Fest: Craft seminar, “Tackling the “S” Word: Writing Your Book’s Synopsis.” Registration open!

• Tuesday, June 11, 4 - 6 pm, Denver, CO: Lighthouse Writers Lit Fest: Craft seminar, “Getting to the Finish Line.” Registration open!

A select list of previous events:

• Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Lit Fest), instructor / panelist: June 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015

• Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference, September 2023

• Stories on Stage, April 2023: Denver Noir performance

• BookBar, May 2022: Denver Noir reading and signing

• Arapahoe Libraries, May 2022: Denver Noir reading and signing

• Tattered Cover Colfax, May 2022: Launch celebration for Denver Noir

• Denver Womens’ Press Club - Denver, CO, October 2019

• Northern Colorado Writers Conference, Ft. Collins, CO, May 2021, May 2020, May 2019 (keynote speaker)

• 21st Annual Tattered Cover Writers Respond to Readers, Denver, CO, February 2019

• Douglas County Libraries, Parker, CO, October 2018

• Longmont Library, Longmont, CO, October 2018

• LitCrawl, Denver, CO, September 2018

• Door County, WI, July 2018: Fair Isle Books and The Peninsula Bookman (with Write on Door County and Friends of the Door County Library)

• Field Library, Peekskill, NY, June 2018

• Arapahoe Libraries, Centennial, CO, April 2018 (watch a video here)

• Chautauqua Author Series, Boulder, CO, March 2018

• Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson, AZ, March 2018

• 702WI, Madison, WI, February 2018

• Literature Lovers' Night Out, February 2018: two locations in the Minneapolis area

• Tattered Cover Colfax, February 2018: Launch celebration for The Glass Forest

• Rocky Mountain Literary Festival, Golden, CO, October 2016

• Douglas County Libraries, "Fête des Fables" Gala, September 2015

• Magers & Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, July 2015

• Boswell Book Company, Milwaukee, WI, July 2015

• Tattered Cover Colfax, March 2015: Launch celebration for The Bookseller, with Colorado Public Radio's Ryan Warner (to listen to podcast here),