Malinda Lo
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Jun 15, 2010
Last ASH hardcover event, ALA, and Sirens
Today I have a few events to tell you about …
This Saturday, June 19 at 7 p.m., I will be reading and signing at Copperfield’s bookstore in Santa Rosa, CA, with fellow YA authors Cheryl Renee Herbsman (Breathing) and Heidi R. Kling (Sea). We are going to be celebrating summer romance, so I promise to read a very summer-romancey scene in Ash.
This will be my last book event until this fall, when Ash comes out in paperback! So if you want a signed hardcover copy of Ash, this is the place to get it. If you can’t make it to the event but still want a signed hardcover, you should call the store and ask if they can reserve a copy for you.
In about a week and a half, I’ll be going to the American Library Association’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. I’m really looking forward to this because I have never been to Washington, D.C.! Like the true geek I am, I’m scheduling time to go to the Smithsonian. But you’re not interested in my geeky travel plans! Here are my official events at ALA:
Friday, June 25 — 12:30 to 4:00 p.m.
YALSA Pre-Conference: Promoting Teen Reading With Web 2.0 Tools
Embassy Suites Convention Center, Capital B
Saturday, June 26 — 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Signing at the Little, Brown Books for Young Readers booth
Washington Convention Center, Exhibit Hall
Sunday, June 27 — 8:00 to 10:00 a.m.
Rainbow Project Breakfast
Washington Convention Center 201
I’m looking forward to meeting many librarians. 
Last but not least, I’m really excited to share the news that I’ll be going to Sirens, a conference about women in fantasy, this October in Vail, Colorado. I’ll be leading a roundtable discussion about queerness in fairy tales.
Sirens is only in its second year, but the buzz about last year’s conference was so tempting that I had to go. This year’s guests of honor are Holly Black, Marie Brennan, and Terri Windling. Other authors will be there too, including Cindy Pon, who will be on a panel about fairies around the world (and will also be my roomie! which means I will stay up all night gossiping like a teenager!). And I have heard rumors that the fabulous Sarah Rees Brennan may also be in attendance.
So if you have the interest and the means to go to Sirens this year, I encourage you to check out their website. I think it’s going to be an awesome time.
I’m bummed I’m not going to ALA Annual this year! Last year was much easier for me to get to in Chicago. The YALSA preconference event sounds interesting. Happy conference going!
OMG SO EXCITED ABOUT SIRENS!!! I went last year thinking it’d be nice because it was the first conference I’d ever gone to and it was in it’s first year so it wouldn’t be too big and overwhelming for me. Had. The. Best. Time. EVER.
I think you’ll love it. I felt like I’d been magically transported to a place where people ‘got it’ and nobody looked at me like I was the weird girl who always say strange things that nobody ‘got’. It was the cat’s potatoes!
Hmmm got a little spastic there… I meant ‘weird girl who always says things that nobody gets’… what can I say, I’m writing on two different WIPs in two different tenses and I’ve developed this habit of annoying flip floping between present and past… then I get excited and don’t catch myself until after the fact… such a gork…
Got it.
Glad to hear you had such a great time at last year’s Sirens!