Where We’re Headed
Posted by Cindy Pon on Nov 9, 2010 in Blog, Featured, News | 34 commentsWe’re excited to announce the five city stops for our Diversity Tour in 2011!
Next Spring, Malinda and I will be signing in these following locations with other authors we’ve invited.
* drumroll please *
San Francisco!
Austin!
Boston!
New York City!
And in the Fall, we'll be doing a signing in San Diego!
Who are the other authors participating? Please sign up on our mailing list and we’ll notify you via email as soon as we make the official announcement. We have a fantastic list of authors who have agreed to join us to celebrate diversity in middle grade and young adult books next year. We can’t wait!
This is so awesome!! What would it take to have you make a stop in the Midwest… possibly near Chicago?
At any rate, I am excited to follow your tour.
sarah, we seriously considered chicago!
but do to both time and costs restraints,
we chose places where we knew authors were,
so there would be no major travel costs
involved for them to join us.
perhaps in the future?
Please do keep me in the loop about your activities! Would love to see if this is a model that could be used for adult fiction too.
i love the name of your blog!
and will do! group signings are quite
popular, why not do one with a
celebrating diversity focus?
So thrilled you lovely ladies are coming to NYC!
yay!
I am so sad that it does not include Los Angeles. May need to think about a trip to San Francisco or San Diego. What a wonderful idea though.
i’m hoping we can swing a los angeles
signing, perhaps piggy backing on scbwi
conference in august?
Well, if you’re looking for cities with authors I know you won’t be coming to Indianapolis, but if you stop *anywhere* in the midwest, I’ll be there! This is a cause I definitely support.
edi, thank you so much for your support!
we wish we can travel to more locales, we do!
but this is a great start.
You’re right, this is a FANTASTIC start!!! I’ll be posting on the blog to support you in the meantime!
Ari and I may have to plan a trip!!
thank you so much! and yes, ari mentioned boston and nyc along with uni visits as a possibility. <3 we’d love to see you!
Oh, shoot. Nowhere near me. Maybe I can try and make it to Boston or New York for a “college scouting” trip? Who knows? xD Great idea, and I’m so looking forward to FURY OF THE PHOENIX and HUNTRESS!
thanks maggie!!
I’m not sure which of these I’ll be able to make (Can’t you come to D.C.? PLEASE!
), but I’m going to try to get to one. I travel to San Diego a lot for work, so I’m hoping I can swing a business trip there to see y’all. Love this idea.
aww, i wish we could go to more places,
guinevere!
Am so looking forward to catching you both in New York! Hooray for diversity in YA fiction (and fantasy!)! Happy New Year! Sayantani
thank you sayantani! (what a lovely name.)
we can’t wait!!
Love the idea. And we would love to host you both at Kepler’s in Menlo Park when you are in the Bay Area. If you can squeeze us into your schedule, let me know.
AngelaM@keplers.com
thank you so much angela!
please come to chicago
We need you!!!
aww, i wish we were!
Good stuff. I hope you can swing down to Kepler’s in Menlo! Otherwise, I’ll see you in SF.
it will be in SF proper!
hope to see you!
I love and hate that Philadelphia (my city) is so close to NYC. I love being close enough to go to things there but not every time there is a great signing. Philadelphia area often gets overlooked being so close to NYC. Come to the Philly burbs..we’ve got some great bookstores and some voracious readers who would LOVE to come to this tour!
hi jamie, we wish we could go to many more places, too. the enthusiasm for our tour has been so fantastic. alas, we are limited by time and budget, and chose cities where we knew authors were. we wanted to minimize the travel costs for them.
Well, I’ll just have to get myself to NYC..the perk of being so close
This is a tour I don’t want to miss!
we would LOVE to see you! =)
Very exciting news! When will you be in the Boston area? We have a newly formed Diversity Club at our middle school, and it would be wonderful if we could find a way to host or take the kids to meet you!
yes! we will be in boston!
most likely at the Cambridge Public Library.
trying to firm locations at each city before
we officially announce. we’d love to see
the Diversity Club middle school kids. how
perfect is that?
Keep me posted.
Thanks.
Leigh.
will do! check back often or sign
up for our mailing list? thanks leigh!
Hi Cindy!
Just saw your tweet to me about this! How COOL! And what a great lineup of authors! Thanks so much to you & Malinda for organizing something like this. It is definitely needed! I will definitely try to make your NYC tour stop–are there any dates known yet? Keep us posted . . .
thanks crystal! we are so excited!
i hope you can make it. it’ll be the
week of may 9th. will let people know asap.
make sure you sign up for our newsletter to
keep posted. cheers!!