A much more detailed event page is forthcoming on this site, but for now, here’s a quick list of all the confirmed The Wilder Life events for this spring:
April 14: CHICAGO: Barnes & Noble (Webster Place), 7:00 PM
April 16: KANSAS CITY: Johnson County Central Resource Library in Overland Park (with Rainy Day Books), 2:00 PM
April 18: ST. LOUIS: City Library, Schlafly Branch (with Pudd’nhead Books), 7:00 PM
April 19: IOWA CITY: Prairie Lights, 7:00 PM
April 20: MINNEAPOLIS: Magers & Quinn, 7:30 PM
April 21: CHICAGO: Book Cellar, 7:00 PM
April 29: CHICAGO/WINNETKA: The Bookstall, 6:30 PM
May 3: CHICAGO/NAPERVILLE: Anderson’s Bookshop, 7:00 PM
May 10: MADISON: Barnes & Noble (West Towne), 7:00 PM
May 17: BROOKLYN: Word, 7:30 PM
May 18: DURHAM: The Regulator Bookshop, 7:00 PM
June 11: ALBUQUERQUE: Bookworks, 3:00 PM
In addition to the event page on this site I’ll also have all these events posted on The Wilder Life’s Facebook page, where you can spread the word or RSVP for reminders.
There’s one part that’s really hard about announcing book event stuff, which is that for every place I’m headed, there are dozens of others that I can’t visit. I’m lucky that Riverhead could give me a few days of semi-glamorous Midwestern jet-setting in addition to the couple of trips that I’m making on my own dime, but it’s still just eight cities I’m visiting, which makes it awfully statistically likely that I’ll miss yours.
So when you say, “Come to Otisburg!” or “Can you please stop in Chocolate City?” my heart wrenches like a twisted towel, because of all the above events have been in the works for months and it’s usually not possible to spontaneously add Otisburg or Chocolate City or Bedford Falls or even Port Charles to the list, though I will definitely keep them in mind for next year when the paperback comes out. It is a sad fact that I am not a one-woman jam band and cannot tour the country for months and months, improvising long, noodling solos every night on my butter churn guitar. That said, I hope that those of you who are in these cities will come out for a lovely night (or afternoon) of reading, book discussion, trivia (maybe!) and other Little House shenanigans yet to be determined.
(Photo courtesy of Travelpod.com)
Brooklyn! Hm, there may be some train travel and stalking in my near future…. 🙂
I hope so!!!!!
Okay, I’ll refrain from expressing the collective heartbreak of those of us in the largest city in the Southeast United States.
Also, I’m bummed that I’ll be in St Louis in early April (random) and I’ll miss you by a week.
Hope to catch you next time around!
Wish the wagon train was coming closer to me–say, Western Mass? Best of luck on your tour.
I guess I’m one of the lucky ones–I live in St. Louis and can hardly wait for Wendy to get here. I’ve been to all the Laura sites, some more than once–my husband calls them pilgrimages and he may be right.