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appearances
As usual, please call the venue to check times and dates before you set out just in case I am kidnapped by enraged badgers, eager to promote their dangerous monochrome agenda.

Updated 14th May 2024: 2025 Boskone Added

2024


6th Feb: Red Side Story, the sequel to Shades of Grey. (UK)

The Link Tree for orders can be found HERE.


May 7th: Red Side Story
Published USA/CAN

Aug 16th-19th: Erasmuscon.
First Dutch Eurocon, Rotterdam. Website: erasmuscon


Sept 20th: Axminster
Archway Bookshop. 'Axminster' is 'Aquaminster' in Red Side Story, so I can do a late recce at the same time. More details TBA. Website


Sept 24th: Carterton Library Event
Carterton, Oxfordshire, 18:00 hrs. Support our libraries!
More details TBA.


Oct 11th: Wantage Library Event
Wantage, Oxfordshire, 18:30 hrs. Support our libraries!
More details TBA.


Oct 19th: East Riding Festival of words
Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. Support our libraries!
More details TBA. Website


2025


Feb 14-16 2025:
Boskone 62
 GOH at the New England Science Fiction Associations annual conference, Boston, MA. Great Honour. Website: Boskone


31st May-1st June 2025:
Fantasticon
 More details TBA. Copenhagen, Denmark.


11th October 2025:
OH!CON
 Appearance at the Outer Hebrides Comic Con in Stornaway. Website: OH!CON


15th-19th October 2025:
German Constant Rabbit
 Tentative: short speaking tour with possible Frankfurt Book Fair. Maybe.



FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS


March 02031:   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 008910:   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.
00012972:    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.