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I'm back from the Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator Tour! and had a great time visiting with pals, meeting fans, reading and giggling. You can read about what I and my author pals eat for lunch when we're in LA for the Book fest here (and see pictures of the lunch here) (the book fest was fun, too!) The fine folks at BookPeople have a fun photo stream from the signing, including a

In an effort to raise money for Japanese earthquake relief, singer Justin Bieber sent a lock of his hair on tour and fans around the country have paid $1 to take a picture with it. Mimicking the young pop star, author David Thorne has sent a lock of his own hair on a bookstore tour.

Thorne’s editor, Michael Solana, explained in the release: “Thorne declared war on Justin Bieber last month with his site HelpMeSellMoreBooksThanJustinBieber.com. A 10-city tour of his hair was kind of inevitable.”

Thorne’s hair will spend three days in each store. For every location that hosts the Thorne lock, Penguin Group (USA)’s Tarcher/Penguin will donate $200 to the National Children’s Cancer Society.

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I am back home again after completing my BFNBT#2. I had a wonderful time and was hosted by some very wonderful folks with wonderful book stores and schools across the country. I am exhausted, but happy to have had such a great time. I took a few photos and will share some of the journey (and the end of last years tour that is still ongoing in the time machine) soon.

For now I will say that the highlight was getting to see my parents and bring them to an event where they got to see what it is I do now. They were just amazed I was in the paper in an ad (for the wonderful Vero Beach Book Center) right next to Harlan Coben! Trust me, they aren’t easy to impress and that seemed to do the trick.

Thanks everyone. Now on to the ignored: laundry, school stuff, and my babies.

Related posts:

1. BFNBT #2 – My Name is Not Alexander – Jennifer Fosberry Tour

I am a little behind the times, but here is where I will be for the next two weeks! Come see me if you can, Please.

Wednesday, March 16th
6:30 PM
Barnes & Noble, Pima & Shea location
Scottsdale Fiesta Shopping Center
10500 N. 90th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
480-391-0048

Thursday, March 17th
10:15 AM
The King’s English Bookshop
1511 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
801-484-9100

1:00 PM
Barnes & Noble, Layton
1780 North Woodland Park Drive
Layton, UT 84041
801-773-9973

Sunday, March 20th
3:30 PM
Vero Beach Children’s Book Center
2145 Indian River Blvd
Vero Beach, FL 32960
(772)569.6650

Wednesday, March 23rd
4:00 PM
The Book Mark
299 Atlantic Blvd
Atlantic Beach, FL 32233
904-241-9026

Thursday, March 24th
6:30 PM
Barnes & Noble, Rittenhouse Square
1805 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215- 665-0716

Friday, March 25th
4:00 pm
Children’s Book World
17 Haverford Station Road
Haverford, PA 19041
610-642-6274

Saturday, March 26th
10:00 AM
Doylestown Bookshop
16 S Main Street
Doylestown, PA
215-230-7610

Related posts:

1. Jennifer Fosberry – explained a little bit
2. BFBT Stop #2 – Barnes and Noble at El Cerrito (or It was a Dark and …..)
3. This is IZZY on tour

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Congratulations to Melanie Mitchell, who received the 2010 ΦBK Science Book Award for her book Complexity: A Guided Tour! In honor of this, Michelle and Lauren talk with Mitchell about ants, robots, the economy, and more.

Melanie Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor and Member of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning and complex systems.

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From the Phi Beta Kappa Society:

Amazing feats of collective intelligence, such as the colony of army ants that link themselves together to cross daunting precipices, are having an unconventional effect on the future of science. The “complexity” of these naturally occurring events cannot be explained by the traditional method of breaking science down into its most basic parts, in this case, the individual army ants. Instead, the study of complex systems, those made up of simple components with limited capacity for communication, provide a much broader illustration of the science of self-organization and adaptation.

In Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press, 2009), Melanie Mitchell draws on her background as a computer scientist and her work with the Santa Fe Institute to study the complex systems that have evolved in nature and how they may contribute to the future of computer programming, specifically with regards to artificial intelligence. Mitchell also looks at the human brain’s ability to create consciousness from a complex network of electrically charged neurons, axons, and dendrites, as well as the immune system’s unique collection of cells, which work together in an effective and efficient way without any central control.

The song featured in this podcast is “In the Middle” from the album Can’t You See by The Ben Daniels Band. Get it here.

Check my website tour page regularly for details. (Specifics on Livingston Parish Libraries in Louisiana to come.)

Also on that page -- please take advantage of the Demand It! widget. Maybe I'll come to your nearest major city some day!

Hello, everyone! I added an event to my book tour list!

I'll be at Books of Wonder on October 7th from 5 to 7 p.m. Hope to see some of you there!


View The Exiled Queen Book Tour Fall, 2010 in a larger map

To see the entire tour on a larger map, click here.

Lulu Award winning cartoonist Abby Denson kicks off her West Coast tour here in Vancouver this weekend signing copies of her new comic, Dolltopia (preview it here). She’ll be in Portland and San Francisco following this. And in typical Abby-esque style: there will be cupcakes.

Here are the dates and locations for the book tour:

Vancouver:
Oct 31 @ 12pm Halloween event @ Elfsar Comics, 1007 Hamilton St
Nov 1 @ 2pm ECUAD, Emily Carr Theatre (SB 301), 1399 Johnston St, Granville Island

Portland:
Nov 4 @ 6pm In Other Words, 8 B NE Killingsworth St
Nov 5 @ 5pm Floating World Comics, 20 NW 5th Ave

San Francisco:
Nov 6 @ 7PM Dolltopia reading and signing at Modern Times, 888 Valencia St
Nov 7 @ 1PM Dolltopia signing @ A Different Light, 489 Castro St
Nov 7 @ 6-8PM Dolltopia signing @ GRSF, 618 Shrader St
Nov 8 @ 1pm Cartoon Art Museum, 655 Mission St

I repeat: CUPCAKES.

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Instead of a fall tour this year, we're going to try something a little different: a simulcast visit to my studio for schools and libraries. If you want your organization to be one of the 200 schools and libraries that I'll visit by video (vidsit?) on October 6th, just head over to pigeonpresents.com* and click on either Elephant or Piggie** when they pop up on the homepage.The plan is for me to

(with apologies to Armistead Maupin)

Business first:
Copperfield Books in Petaluma tonight at 7!

And then. I hook back up with Cassandra Clare and we'll appear in Cincinnati Friday and Saturday.

Then Cassie and I will meet Elizabeth Scott in NYC Sunday, and Cassie and I will do a final library event on Monday.

Tour details here.


In other very important news, I have acquired a friend.

It was in the wee hours of Sunday night that I had a hankering for the world's most perfect food: peanut butter. I was delighted to have a Walgreen's across from the hotel, so I scouted around and to my delight, I found a jar of creamy JIF, my favorite. Bought it and back in my hotel room, I opened it up.
It smelled delicious.

And then.

I realized I didn't have anything in the room with which to eat it. And so I did what all teen authors would do: I tweeted about it.

Meanwhile, I had called room service for ice, and when it arrived, there it was.

A spoon.

Yay!

All was good in the world.





The next morning, as I packed up for my school visits, I realized that if I left the spoon in the room, housekeeping would take it. And then I would have tragedy in my life once again.

Well, so, I borrowed the spoon, and it traveled with me to school. Of course I tweeted and someone asked me what I'd named her (because she is obviously female).

"Miss Spoobin."

That's what I said. And that is her name.

After that, I got another spoon with room service, and then another and another. I began to hoard them. I have a slight problem, I know.



Can you tell which one is Miss Spoobin? She glows just slightly, of course.

On my travels, I realized just how lonely I was getting because I began showing Miss Spoobin to my new friends. We took photos.

Have you ever heard of the Flat Stanley Project?


This is kind of like that. My friend Daniel sent me his Flat Stanley a few years ago. We took him to pan for gold.





I digress.

Here are some places Miss Spoobin has been, besides the peanut butter jar.

Deer Valley High School:



With radio station host Jim Foster:



Lunch with my friends (who brought me wonderful little individual cups of my fave pb so I can carry them in my purse):



At Clayton Books:



Capuchino High School with Books, Inc. and the You Say Read, We Say Party Book Club:


To my friends in Cincinnati and NYC who want a photo with Miss Spoobin, well, I don't have an answer for you yet as to whether she will be accompanying me. I am not a thief (not anymore, anyway), so I will find the manager of the hotel and ask if I might purchase Miss Spoobin.

Wish me luck.

UPDATE:
Hotel manager David just said I can keep Miss Spoobin! Yay, I love David!

Well, we're off again.

This is our third tour and it starts December 15th. Below is the schedule of Hosts and their Guests. We hope you drop by to see what's going on.

Host: Dr. John F. Murray / Guest: Elysabeth Eldering
http://drjohnfmurray.blogspot.com
Host: Dianne Sagan / Guest: Joyce Anthony
http://www.diannesagan.wordpress.com
Host: Harry Gilleland / Guest: Rosanna Ienco
http://harrygillelandwrites.blogspot.com
Host: Lanaia Lee / Guest: Dr. John F. Murray
http://lanaialee.blogspot.com
Host: Joy Delgado / Guest: Dianne Sagan http://zooprisepartyfiestazoorpresa.blogspot.com
Host: Lillian Cauldwell / Guest: Harry Gilleland
http://lilliancaldwell.blogspot.com
Host: Karen Cioffi / Guest: Lanaia Lee
http://karenandrobyn.blogspot.com
Host: Kathy Stemke / Guest: Joy Delgado
http://educationtipster.blogspot.com
Host: Linda Ballou / Guest: Lillian Cauldwell
http://lindaballou.blogspot.com
Host: Lea Schizas / Guest: Karen Cioffi
http://thewritingjungle.blogspot.com
Host: Patricia Crandall / Guest: Kathy Stemke
http://patriciacrandall.blogspot.com
Host: Nancy Famolari / Guest: Linda Ballou
http://nancygfamolari.blogspot.com
Host: Rosemary Chaulk / Guest: Lea Schizas
http://rosemarychaulk.blogspot.com
Host: Sharon Poppen / Guest: Patricia Crandall
http://sharonpoppenauthor.blogspot.com
Host: Suzanne Lieurance / Guest: Nancy Famolari
http://www.suzannelieurance.com
Host: Vivian Zabel / Guest: Rosemary Chaulk
http://VivianZabel.blogspot.com
Host: Boyd Hipp / Guest: Sharon Poppen
http://boydhipp.blogspot.com
Host: Dehanna Bailee / Guest: Suzanne Lieurance http://www.thebackroomat.dehanna.com
Host: Margaret Fieland / Guest: Vivian Zabel
http://www.margaretfieland.com
Host: Ransom Noble / Guest: Boyd Hipp
http://www.ransomnoble.wordpress.com
Host: Luigi Falconi / Guest: Dehanna Bailee
http://luigifalconi.blogspot.com
Host: Dwight Rounds / Guest: Margaret Fieland
http://dwightcrounds.blogspot.com
Host: Anna Maria Prezio / Guest: Ransom Noble
http://prezio.blogspot.com
Host: Crystalee Calderwood / Guest: Luigi Falconi http://crystaleecalderwood.blogspot.com
Host: Rosanna Ienco / Guest: Dwight Rounds
http://rosannaienco.blogspot.com
Host: Elysabeth Eldering / Guest: Anna Maria Prezio
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com
Host: Joyce Anthony / Guest: Crystalee Calderwood
http://joyceanthony.tripod.com/blog/

Please come back on the 15th to visit with my guest, author Lanaia Lee.

Karen

MArch 9- April 2, 2008

BRIEFLY: I had a BLAST in an exhausting collage of faces and places starting with Atlanta, Kennesaw (curriculum mixes drama and storytelling) with Irish teller Eddie Lenihan. Then up through the Smokey Mountains: Cleveland, Knoxville, and Jonesborough (SUCH A LITTLE TOWN!) Connie Gil hosted me. Met with NSN (Bobbie) and ISC (Susan/ Jimmy Neil) about a national story radio show. I did a workshop & tell there, then did lotsa ghost tours with my daughter in Savannah, and caught my breath at her house in Jacksonville, Florida. Then a wonderfully intense long weekend at the Florida Storytelling Camp and home on one of the last ATA flights. (more…)

Leg 2 of the Pigeon tour starts this week. Please note updates to this weekends appearances at NY's Comic Con and my Vancouver event the following week. I hope to see ya there.

Big crowds, long flights. Best story; a girl dressed up as Trixie and made her dad dress up as the 2:30am dad for her birthday party. Cool. I'm in FL today; drop by if you're in the area.. Here's a nice article relating to my Dallas appearance.

Spring of 2010? Do lunch? Let me check my calendar....

.....Oh, sorry - I'll be busy opening my box of NEW BOOKS.


That's right, folks. That manuscript I agonized over all summer....

You know the one....

The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis...

Look for it at a bookstore near you - Spring 2010.