Appearances

UPCOMING:

April 30-May 1, 2011

A Conspiracy of Kings is a finalist for the Los Angeles Time Book Prize for Young Adult Literature.

Panel
12:30 Saturday April 30, 201l
Young Adults: Worlds Beyond Imagination

With Megan Whalen Turner, Jonathan Stroud and Rick Yancy, moderated by Cindy Dobrez, one of the Judges for the prize. Booksigning to follow.

3:00 p.m.
Book Signing
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
Booth #371

Loganberry Books
NOBS Forum
7:00 pm
May 19, 2011

NOBS Forums is a monthly series of discussions about the book world sponsored by the Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society that meets on the third Thursday of the month at Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights

I will be on a panel discussion with Tricia Sprinstubb, Sarah Willis and Bonnie Shaker. We'll be talking about coming of age stories over the last fifty or so years. Given that I don't actually know much about how these stories have changed over the years, I don't know what I'll say, but I'm sure Tricia Springstubb, Sarah Willis and Bonnie Shaker will be on topic. Maybe I will just listen to them. Yes, this is the plan.

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

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

Barnes and Noble Bookstore

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.