This coming Sunday, December 11, at 2 p.m., The Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale is hosting a Yuletide Universe event with eight local authors who write in the science fiction and fantasy genres. It is a chance to meet and mingle with the authors and pick up some signed books for gifts or for your own reading.

One of the oldest fandoms around is that of fans of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, and Leslie Klinger and Laurie R. King have gathered together new stories from Holmes fans who are also writers for the new anthology A Study in Sherlock.  Klinger and King will be at The Poisoned Pen for a group signing for the collection on Saturday, November 19th along with contributors Thomas Perry, Dana Stabenow, and Jacqueline Winspear. Copies have already been signed by S. J. Rozan at a recent appearance  and contributor Margaret Maron …

With the sudden demise of Atomic Comics and their four stores this week, I thought it would be good to make up a list of the comic shops in the Phoenix area that are open for business.

Coming up this week are a couple of signings with authors you should get to know at The Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale:
First up on Tuesday, April 19, is Joe R. Lansdale at The Poisoned Pen bookstore.  He’ll do a talk and sign his latest novel, Devil Red, where “Hap Collins and Leonard Pine return in a red-hot, mayhem-fueled thriller to face a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they’ve ever encountered—Devil Red.”  It is the latest story in the “Hap Collins and Leonard Pine” mysteries series …

This weekend sees the return of the Tucson Festival of Books to the University of Arizona campus.  The festival runs Saturday and Sunday, from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm each day.  There will be hundreds of authors on hand taking part in presentations and discussion panels and, of course, signing books.  As you might expect, there will be a good number of Science Fiction and Fantasy authors on hand in addition to all the Mystery, Southwest, Children’s, non-fiction (I could go on..) authors that will be appearing.  The festival, …

Michael A. Stackpole will be putting on a free writing workshop “How to Write a Knockout Novel” at 2 pm this Saturday, December 4th at the Poisoned Pen bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona. He also has a new novel out, At the Queen’s Command, and will be signing copies after the workshop.
Michael A. Stackpole is a New York Times Best Selling author, an award-winning novelist, an award-winning editor, an award-winning game designer, an award-winning computer game designer, an award-winning comics writer, an award-winning podcaster, and an award-winning screenwriter.
For the workshop, …

Last week saw the release of All Clear, the second and final volume of Connie Willis’ latest work (the first half, Blackout, was released in February) and this Friday, October, 29, she will be here in Arizona at The Poisoned Pen to talk about the novel.  Joining her at the talk and signing at 7 pm will be author Laurie R. King, who is a fan of Connie.   If you’re familiar with Connie’s work, or interested in time traveling historians, you should make it a point to catch her while she …

The next week sees not one, not two, but three book launch events in the Phoenix area with author James A. Owen for the release of The Dragon’s Apprentice, the fifth book in The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series.

Seven years after the events of The Shadow Dragons, John, Jack and Charles are finally able to return to their beloved Archipelago of Dreams. But even as their return is celebrated by old friends, new concerns shadow the reunion: the threat of Ecthroi, primordial Shadow. And perhaps even worse, the apparent splintering of …

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Author Carrie Vaughn will be making a couple of stops in the Phoenix area on Wednesday, July 28, in support of her new fantasy novel Discord’s Apple.  She’ll be visiting the Velma Teague branch of the Glendale Public Library at 2 p.m. and at 7 p.m. she’ll be at The Poisoned  Pen in downtown Scottsdale.
Carrie is best known for her series of Kitty books, about Kitty Norville, who hosts a late night talk show about the supernatural and who also happens to be a werewolf.  The latest Kitty book, Kitty …