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Appearances


02009
 
Updated: 12th June 02009
I update this page quite often so check back now and again. As usual, please call the venue to check times and dates before you set out just in case I get struck by lightning or something. Old tour details can be found either at my old appearances page or my archive.


June 22nd 02009, 2:30pm.
Newport Central Library, Newport, S.Wales.

General talk about writing, all welcome.





July 26th, 02009 10:00AM
The Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

Harrogate, Yorkshire. Panel: 'Nursery Crimes'. Website




August 28th-31st 02009
Greenbelt Festival

Possible appearance at their festival at Cheltenham, UK. Rough Itinerary:

10:00-11:00Talk in the Hub for the main literature stream.
12:00-13:00 Interview with Cole Morton during the Hub Sandwich.
Afternoon- talk for youth programme & signing in bookshop.
16:00: Greenbelt bookclub discussion around Thoreau's "Walden".

All events subject to confirmation Website




September 18th-20th 02009
Fantasycon 2009
Appearance at Nottingham, UK. Await details and confirmation. Website




++To be rescheduled++
November 6th 02009
Birmingham SF Group
Appearance at Birmingham, UK, 7:30 for 8:00.
Venue: Briar Rose hotel, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham (upstairs function room).
Contact Vicky Rose on bhamsfgroup@yahoo.co.uk or 07845 897760/font>



December/January 02009/10
USA Tour
Places and dates to be confirmed.




December/January 02009/10
UK Tour
Places and dates to be confirmed.





02010



May 28th-29th-30th 02010
Fforde Ffiesta III
A fun-packed weekend at the DeVere Hotel, Swindon.




FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

March 2031:
  Asteroid belt and Saturn (technology permitting) More details TBA.
October 02042:   81-year-old Fforde talks to other members of old people's home: "I used to be a novelist, no really, I did. Is it lunchtime?" More details TBA.
July 02175:   Semi-lifelike cloned Ffordesque replicant to tour Gamma Quadrant in the Cygnus Cluster. More details TBA.
Setember 03431:   Much improved Fforde cloned back to life to face execution for sedition; all works consigned to erasure.
Janfebry 08910:   Last evidence of Fforde's books vanish forever with the removal of the 'Formerly Thursday Street' plaque from what is now W23-61 Rd in the conurbation known as EuroWest-79.
12972:    Visiting archeologists from Thraal-7 discover incomplete copy of Well of Lost Plots from excavation in landfill. Deciphering takes seven hundred years and a further four hundred years of academic scrutiny before being accepted as historical fact.

 
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