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bio
Scott
Westerfeld is me. I'm the author of five science
fiction novels for
adults. I've also been an occasional ghost writer,
which is like driving someone else's car really, really fast for lots
of money. (I could tell you what famous authors I ghost-wrote for, but
then I'd have to kill you.) In my artsy days, I wrote music for artsy
downtown New York dancers, some of which sounds like
this.
I have written
three sets of books for young adults. The first is called Midnighters,
a tale of five teenagers born on the stroke of midnight, for whom time
freezes every night, revealing a dark and terrible hidden world. All three
books are out now.
My other trilogy is Uglies,
set in a future where cosmetic surgery is compulsory when you turn 16,
making everyone beautiful. Of course, there are some people who want to
keep their own faces . . . but they're not allowed. All three books—Uglies,
Pretties and Specials—are out now. A companion
novel to the trilogy, Extras, will be out in October 2007.
My third set of books is three stand-alone novels from Razorbill, all
set in contemporary New York. The first is So
Yesterday, about a cool hunter who runs afoul of a plot to end
consumerism. The second is called Peeps,
a "vampire" novel. The third is The Last Days, set
in the same world as Peeps, which is also out now.
I've
also written a few short stories that you can find
online for free, but be warned that all of them contain dirty words.
I
was born in Texas, and split my time between New York City and Sydney,
Australia. (I have more frequent flyer miles than you do.) You can read
many personal details of my life on my
blog. And consult the Scott fact sheet here.
coming
appearances
I am not currently scheduling appearances. Please do not email me with appearance requests. It's not that I don't love you all, it's just that you outnumber me.
Here's
where you can catch me in person:
18-20 January,
2008
High Voltage ConFusion
Author Guests of Honour:
Justine Larbalestier & Scott Westerfeld
Art Guest of Honor: Carl Lundgren
Science Guest of Honor: Kevin M. Dunn
Music Guest of Honor: Throwing Toasters
Fan Guests of Honor: The Roaming Pirate Party
Toastmaster: John Scalzi
Detroit-Troy
Marriot
200 W. Big Beaver Rd.
Troy, Michigan USA
recent
appearances
Monday, January 7, 2008
6:30 PM
Barnes and Noble
267 7th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-832-9066
Here’s a map.
Wednesday, November 7
6PM-7:30PM
Teen Author Reading Night
Alaya Johnson, Kristen Kemp,
Louise Plummer, Abby Sher,
Scott Westerfeld, Jake Wizner.
Tompkins Square Branch of the NYPL
331 E. 10th Street (Ave B)
Saturday, October 27
Meet the Australian Fantasy Authors:
Margo Lanagan, Justine Larbalestier,
Garth Nix, & Scott Westerfeld
3-5PM
Books of Wonder
18 West 18th St.
New York, NY
Thursday, October 25
4PM-6PM
Fairfield Public Library
1080 Old Post Road
Fairfield, CT
203-255-7394
Books will be sold there by the local Borders
Tuesday, Oct 2
7:00PM
Andersons
123 West Jefferson Ave
Naperville, IL 60540
In-store reading/signing
Wednesday, Oct 3
7:00pm
Barnes & Noble
55 Old Orchard Center
Skokie, IL 60077
In-store reading/signing
Thursday, Oct 4
7:00pm
Harry Schwartz Books
10976 North Port Washington Road
Mequon, WI 53092
In-store reading and signing
Monday, Oct 8
7:00pm
Copperfield’s Books Petaluma
140 Kentucky Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
In-store reading & signing
Tuesday, Oct 9
7:00pm
Books Inc.
Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94102
In-store reading & signing with Justine.
The “Not Your Mother’s Book Club” will be attending!
Wednesday, Oct 10
3:00pm-4:30pm
Hicklebees
1378 Lincoln Ave
San Jose, CA 95125
School event followed by in-store reading/signing
Thursday, Oct 11
7:00pm
Shorecrest Performing Arts Center
15343 25th Avenue NE
Shoreline, WA 98155
Books will be sold by Third Place Books
Public presentation and signing.
Friday, Oct 12
4:00pm
Edmonds Branch Library
650 Main St.
Edmonds, WA 98020
Books will be sold onsite by Barnes & Noble
Monday, Oct 15
7:00pm
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
161 Lexington Green Circle
Lexington, KY 40503
Reading/Signing
Aug 31-Sep
3, 2007
DragonCon
Atlanta, Georgia
May
24-26, 2007
Reading Matters Conference
Centre
for Youth Literature
Melbourne, Victoria
Book
Expo America
(BEA)
31 May-3 June 2007
Jacob Javits Convention Centre
New York, NY
Wednesday,
25 April 2007, 4PM
Meet the authors:
Scott Westerfeld & Justine
Larbalestier
Tompkins Square
Branch Library
331 East 10th St
New York, NY
Tuesday,
24 April 2007
NJLA (New Jersey Library
Association) Conference
Long Branch, NJ
Monday,
16 April 2007, 7PM
Justine Larbalestier & Scott
Westerfeld
BookPeople
603 N. Lamar (at Sixth)
Austin, TX
April
11-14, 2007
TLA (Texas Library Association) Conference
San Antonio, Texas
Wednesday,
March 14, 6:00 to 7:30
Reading and signing
Elizabeth Public Library
11 South Broad Street
Elizabeth, NJ
Saturday,
February 24, 2007
Humble ISD Libraries'
Teen
Lit Festival 07
Guests are: Chris Crutcher, Gail Giles,
Justine Larbalestier, Benjamin Alíre Sáenz,
Scott Westerfeld and Chris Yambar
Atascocita High School Campus
Humble, Texas
Saturday
20 January 2007, 2PM
Deb Abela, Michael Parker, Justine Larbalestier
and Scott Westerfeld
talking about their work
Kinokuniya Books
Galeries Victoria
500 George St, Sydney
Wednesday,
October 18, 7:00PM
Siginging at Kips Bay Borders
Justine Larbalestier & Scott
Westerfeld
576 2nd Ave (at 32nd Street)
New York, NY
Monday,
October 16, 6:30PM,
Signing at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble
Justine Larbalestier
& Scott Westerfeld
267 Seventh Avenue,
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Saturday,
October 14, 3:00PM
Reading & Signing
Lake Hills Library
15228 Lake Hills Blvd.
Bellevue, WA 98007
Friday,
October 13, 2006
Washington Library Media Association
Seattle, Washington
Thursday,
October 5, 2006, 5PM-7PM
Susan Cooper, Ellen
Kushner, Gail Carson Levine,
Celia Rees, Delia
Sherman and Scott Westerfeld
Signing at Books of Wonder
18 W. 18th St
New York, NY
Wednesday,
4 October 2006, 6:00PM sharp
(Come early to get a seat!)
Teen
Author Reading Night!
Coe Booth, Daniel
Ehrenhaft, John Green,
David Levithan,
Carolyn MacCullough, Leslie
Margolis, Scott Westerfeld
Jefferson Market
branch of the NYPL
425 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue)
6th Avenue and 10th Street
New York, NY
Saturday,
September 16, 2:00–3:00PM
Brooklyn Book Festival
YOUTH PAVILION
The World Beyond:
Award Winning Sci-Fi and Fantasy for Teens.
Readings by Maureen Johnson,
Justine Larbalestier
and Scott Westerfeld.Q&A to follow.
Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday,
September 5, 2006, 7PM
(doors open at 6:30PM)
NYRSF
Reading Series
Justine Larbalestier
&
Scott Westerfeld
Melville Gallery
213
Water Street
New York, NY
Friday,
21 July, 2006,
10:00-11:00AM
Children's Writing Grows Up
Toran Isom, Justine Larbalestier, Laura Rennert,
Scott Westerfeld, Lynn Sinclair (moderator)
Backspace Writers
Conference
The Algonquin Hotel
59 West 44th Street
Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
New York, NY
22-28
June, 2006
ALA (American Library Association)
Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana
26-29
May, 2006
WisCon 30
The World's Best Feminist Science Fiction Convention
Madison, WI
Thursday
27 April, 2006, 6PM
Signing at Galaxy Bookshop
Justine Larbalestier
&
Scott Westerfeld
143 York Street
Sydney, New South Wales
April 14-17,
2006
Conjure: 45th National Science Fiction
Convention
Brisbane, Australia
27-30 March,
2006
Bologna Children's Book
Fair
Bologna Fair Centre
Bologna, Italy
25-26
March, 2006
SCBWI Before
Bologna Conference
Bologna Children's Book Fairgrounds
Bologna, Italy
Saturday
18 March 2006, Noon-2PM
Great Teen Reads!
Sarah Durkee, Linzi Glass, Justine Larbalestier,
Scott Westerfeld and
Markus Zusak
Signing at Books of Wonder
18 W. 18th St
New York, NY
Thursday
16 March 16, 4:00 PM
Meet
the Authors
Justine Larbalestier & Scott
Westerfeld
Bronx Library Center Teen Advisory Group
Bronx Library Center
310 East Kingsbridge Road
The Bronx, New York
Wednesday
8 March 2006, 6PM
Justine Larbalestier
& Scott Westerfeld
Signing at Books
Inc
Laurel Village
3515 California St
San Francisco
Tuesday 7 March 2006, 7PM
Justine Larbalestier
& Scott Westerfeld
Signing at Borderland Books
866 Valencia St
San Francisco, California
Saturday
25 February 2006
Aurealis
Awards Ceremony
Brisbane, Qld
Friday 18
November, 2005
School Libraries Association
of Victoria Conference
Melbourne, Victoria
Sunday
16 October 2005, 6:00PM
Justine Larbalestier
Bennett Madison
Scott Westerfeld
Barbès Reading Series
376 Ninth Street (at 6th Ave.)
Barbès Bar
Park Slope, Brooklyn
New York
Tuesday,
12 July 2005, 3:00 PM
Meet
the Authors: Justine
Larbalestier
&
Scott Westerfeld
Ages:12 to 18
Donnell Library Center
New York Public Library
20 West 53rd Street
(212) 621-0619
4-8 August, 2005
Interaction
The
63rd World Science Fiction Convention
Glasgow, Scotland
4 June,
2005
Book Expo America (BEA)
Javits Center
New York City, NY
Description
27-30 May,
2005
WisCon 29
World's Leading Feminist Science Fiction Convention
Madison, WI
Sunday 8
May 2005, 1:00-3:00PM
Artemis Fowl and Fantastic Fantasy
Eoin Colfer
Justine Larbalestier
Scott Westerfeld
Signing at Books of Wonder
18 W. 18th St
New York, NY
8 March
2005
6:30-9:00PM
Booktalkers: Meet the Author
Australian Centre
for Youth Literature
Held at: Vision Australia
Kooyong, Melbourne, VIC
19 March
2005
Magic Casements Festival
NSW Writers' Centre
Sydney, NSW
22 January,
2005, 6:30-7:30pm
Aurealis
Awards Ceremony
Ian Hanger Recital Hall,
Qld Conservatorium of Music
South Bank, Brisbane
Queensland, Australia
Thursday,
November 11, 5.00-7.00 PM
I'll be signing with Jean Craighead George,
Richard Peck, Ann M. Martin,
Sylvie Weil, and Sharon Dennis Wyeth
at Books of Wonder
16 W. 18th St
New York, NY
Wednesday, October 20, 7.00 PM
I'll be reading with Lucius Shepard
at the KGB Science Fiction Reading
Series
85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave)
New York, NY
Saturday, October 2, 5AM-7AM
Jim Freund will interview me
and my wife, Justine Larbalestier,
on the Hour of the Wolf,
WBAI
99.5 FM Live streaming: here
(Requires Real Player)
If there's time, we'll also read.
New York, NY
September 2–6, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts
Noreascon 4
The 62nd World Science Fiction Convention
I'll be reading, autographing, and hosting a literary beer with Justine
Larbalestier, as well as appearing on the following discussion panels:
Thursday 7:00pm "The Seven Deadly Sins of SF and Fantasy"
with . . .
Geary Gravel
Rosemary Kirstein
Justine Larbalestier (M)
John Zakour
Friday 12:00 noon "The World Map of 2100—what does it look
like?"
with . . .
David McMahon
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
S. M. Stirling
Jim Young (Moderator)
Friday 1:00pm "Is your 'First Novel' a First Novel?"
with . . .
Phyllis Eisenstein
Terry McGarry
Mike Shepherd-Moscoe (M)
Friday 3:30-4:30pm
Signing books at the Borderlands booth in the dealers' room
Friday 6:00pm "Constructing Technobabble"
with . . .
Geary Gravel (M)
Mark Mandel
John McDaid
Saturday 11:00am "Space Opera Noir"
with . . .
Jim Frenkel
David G. Hartwell
James Killus (M)
Toni Weisskopf
Saturday 1:00pm "What the Writer Needs to Know that doesn't get in
the published story."
with . . .
Robert Reed
Lawrence Watt-Evans
Martha Wells
Saturday 4:00pm Autographing
with . . .
David G. Hartwell
Alex Irvine
Jean Lorrah
Katya Reimann
Robert Silverberg
Jack Speer
Sunday 1:00pm "The Justine and Scott Grand Literary Beer"
with Justine Larbalestier
Sunday 5:00pm Reading from So Yesterday
June
19 New York City
Books of Wonder
16 West 18th Street
212-989-3270
Noon-2PM
A signing with L.G. Bass,
Bruce and Katherine Coville,
Kenneth Oppel, David Randall,
Tor Seidler, and Sam Swope.
May
28-31, 2004 Madison, Wisconsin
Wiscon 28
Wiscon is the world's only feminist sf convention.
It's like summer camp for smart kids.
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