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This Isn’t New Launch Events:

• Saturday, May 16, 1:00 pm, Colorado Springs, CO, Library 21c, Mountain of Authors: Book sales and panel “Reading and Writing History: Celebrating Colorado and the American West” with Gail Beaton and Antonio Farias. More info is here!

• Thursday, May 28, 7:00 pm, Denver: Launch event for This Isn’t New at West Side Books & Curios. More info is here!

• Saturday, June 20, Niwot, Colorado, Inkberry Books: Reading and signing, This Isn’t New. More info is here!

• June 25 - 29, Chicago, IL: ALA 2026 Annual Conference & Exhibition. I’ll be the guest of the Indie Author Project, which named me 2025 Indie Author of the Year. More info about where you can connect with me at the conference is coming soon!

Other 2026 Events

• Tuesday, June 2, 6:00 pm, Parker, CO: Douglas County Libraries adult education series: “Traditional to Indie Publishing.” Join me for this session about my trad-to-indie path, and the pros and cons of each publishing method. Registration opens May 3. More info is here.

• Wednesday, June 10, 6:00 pm, Denver, CO: Tattered Cover Bookstore, Colfax: Mystery/Thriller Author Panel with Scott Graham, Barbara Nickless, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Carter Wilson, and me. More info is here.

• Friday, June 12, 12:00 pm: Lighthouse Writers Lit Fest lunchtime business panel, “Big Press, Small Press, No Press.” More info and registration is here.

• Thursday, June 18, 4:00 pm, Denver, CO: Lighthouse Writers Lit Fest craft seminar, “Writing in an AI Powered World.” More info and registration is here.

A Select List of Previous Events

• Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Lit Fest), instructor / panelist: 2015 - 2025

• Jefferson County Public Library, Local Author Panel, in conjunction with Lisa Gardner event, February 2026

• Colorado Sun SunFest, panelist & featured author, 2025 & 2026

• Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference, instructor: 2023, 2024

• Stories on Stage, 2026: This Isn’t New; 2023: Denver Noir

• Tattered Cover Colfax, May 2022: Launch celebration for Denver Noir

• Northern Colorado Writers Conference, Ft. Collins, CO, May 2021, May 2020, May 2019 (keynote speaker)

• 21st Annual Tattered Cover Writers Respond to Readers, Denver, CO, February 2019

• LitCrawl, Denver, CO, September 2018

• Door County, WI, July 2018: Fair Isle Books and The Peninsula Bookman (with Write on Door County and Friends of the Door County Library)

• Arapahoe Libraries, Centennial, CO, April 2018 (watch a video here)

• Chautauqua Author Series, Boulder, CO, March 2018

• Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson, AZ, March 2018

• 702WI, Madison, WI, February 2018

• Literature Lovers' Night Out, February 2018: two locations in the Minneapolis area

• Tattered Cover Colfax, February 2018: Launch celebration for The Glass Forest

• Rocky Mountain Literary Festival, Golden, CO, October 2016

• Douglas County Libraries, "Fête des Fables" Gala, September 2015

• Tattered Cover Colfax, March 2015: Launch celebration for The Bookseller, with Colorado Public Radio's Ryan Warner (to listen to podcast here),