ROBIN HOBB

Friday, May 24, 2024 at Phoenix Fan Fusion

10:30   Writing from Experience  North 226BC

    With me, Fonda Lee, Gene Luen Yang and Micaiah Johnson. Drawing from your own experience to tell your tale.

Noon  Signing

4:30  Choose your own Adventure 

    With me, Ryan Dalton, sara Beth Durst, Soman Chainani, Todd Fahnestock and Robert Jackson Bennett.

The writers will struggle to create a viable tale from audience proposals.  This will challenging for me!

Panel I want to attend:  6 PM  Tales from the Prancing Pony.  226BC  Writers talking about what they love most about writing in the genre.  Always interesting topic.

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 25

10:30  Signing  B933S

4:30 PM  North 226BC  Bad to the Bone.  Writing Villains

  With Me, Heather Walter, Melissa Marr and Katherine Arden   Writing the bad guys! (and the wicked ladies!)

Sunday, May 26  

10:30  Bring Your World to Life   North 226BC

   With me, Fonda Lee, Heather Walter, Jason Fry, Gene Luen Yang, and Michael Stackpole

     All the elements needed for a believable world

Noon   Signing   B933S

3:00  How I Became an Author  North 227B

   With me, Peter V Brett, David Mack, Micaiah Johnson, Tracy Wolff

          How the heck did I get here, and why do I want to type all the time?

The slow process of moving myself into new offices continued.  I took the space for a test drive on Thursday and found it a good place to write.  It's just a temporary desk there; the walls still need paint, the floor needs carpeting, the flourescent light fixtures must go.  I am so looking forward to having all my books in one place.

But, before that happens, let's talk about Phoenix Fan Fusion.

May 24th, 2024 is just around the corner, bringing with it Phoenix Fan Fusion in Phoenix, Arizona.  And I will be there!

I recently learned that Peter V Brett (The Hidden Queen) Josh Malerman (Birdbox) and Katherine Arden (The Warm Hands of Ghosts)will also be there.  As will Melissa Marr (Remedial Magic   I recently attended a talk she gave on Romantic Fantasy)  So I'm looking forward to getting together with old friends and meeting some new ones.  And I hope that will include many readers.

If you'd like to encounter me there, here is my schedule:

Friday, May 24

10:30   Writing from Experience   North 226BC

12 Noon    Signing   B 927S

4:30 Choose your own Adventure LIVE  North 226BC

Saturday, May 25

10:30   Signing   B933S

4:30  Bad to the Bone--Villains in Fiction  North 226BC

Sunday May 26

10:30  Bring Your World to Life  North 226BC

Noon   Signing  B933S

3:00  How I Became an Author  North 227B

I will, of course, be wandering Artist Alley and the Merchandise area and other interesting panels.  If you see me, feel free to stop me for a chat. 

Time to update where  you can find me in 2024!

First of all, let's talked about getting a signed book if you are not near any of these events.  At intervals, I drive up to University Book Store in Seattle, WAshington.  It's a long drive these days, as traffic makes it a couple hours to get there, and if I stay past 2, I know I won't get home until 7 or 8.  So I used to drive up there every month, but I'm cutting that back to every two months.  The next time I will be there will be in June, 2024.  So, please be aware that if you are ordering for a special occasion, do it early.  And then after you order, remember that it won't be shipped until after the second week in June. LINK to order.

My next event will be Phoenix Fan Fusion in Phoenix Arizona, from May 24 to May 26.  As a guest of the convention, I will be doing signings and have signed up to be on panels.  The specific panels are not confirmed yet.  I will do a special blog for PFF once I know them.  LINK for Phoenix Fan Fusion

VIRTUAL ATTENDANCE  Isle of Wonder, on Cres.  Sometime between June 28 and 30.  Due to my age, I've cut back on overseas festivals.  But I am happy to virtually attend Isle of wonder.  That link goes to their YouTube promo.  I hope I did that right!

Then, of course, There is San Diego Comic Con, now known as International Comic Con.  That runs from July 24 to July 28.  I'm thinking of attending.  As a former Guest of Honor there, they let me attend any year that I choose to, but I'm not officially booked on any panels.  I can request an autograph table session.  Hm.  I'm a bit on the fence on this one.  So watch for updates to this one.

And recently I've been invited back to Grit City.  It's a favorite of mine, a family friendly, on-day event held in the convention center in Tacoma, Washington.  It's on November 9 this year, and they will be updating their website in May.  But yes, I will be there, and this year I will actually have comics!  The Dark Horse Graphic Novel of Assassin's Apprentice.  Both volumes should be available by then.

And that's it for now.  Kat Ogden and I are tossing around the idea of having some writer meet-ups, possibly in Seattle or maybe down here in McKenna Washington if I can get my new offices painted and made respectable!  If we can make that fly, I'll be posting about it here.

And many thanks for being interested!

Robin