Okay, so the Canadian segment of the Leviathan tour starts next week.
One cool thing is that I’ll be appearing with Cassandra Clare (author of the Mortal Instruments series) and Holly Black (author of Tithe, Good Neighbors, and the Spiderwick books). On top of that, the Ottawa event has bonus special guest Keith Thompson, illustrator of Leviathan!
I’ve only done one event in Canada before, in Toronto, so I’ll be meeting a lot of you for the first time.
Here are the dates:
Montreal
Wednesday, November 4th 7:00PM
Chapters Pointe-Claire
6321 Trans-Canada Highway, unit 1410
(514) 428-5500
Ottawa
Thursday, November 5th 7:00PM
Chapters Rideau
47 Rideau Street,
Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 241-0073
Toronto
Friday November 6th 7:00PM
Trinity St. Paul’s United Church
427 Bloor Street West
Because Toronto is an off-site event, admission is five Canadian bucks. You can buy the tickets right here. You can also pay at the door, if there are any seats left!
See you there!
Note that the week after next (November 8-12) I’ll be doing events in NY and NJ. And I’ll be doing a benefit for Philadelphia’s library system on November 22, at Children’s Book World in Haverford, PA. Watch here for details.
Justine will be in Chicago next week, talking about her new book Liar.
Tues, 3 November, 7:00 pm
B&N Skokie
55 Old Orchard Center

Skokie, IL
Wednesday, 4 November, 7:00PM
Anderson’s Bookshop
5112 Main St

Downers Grove, IL
Order Leviathan here!
And you can also buy Leviathan prints from the artist.
One of the cool things I found out on the Leviathan tour was that the libraries of Howard County in Maryland are doing a little experiment called Pass the Book.
Here’s how Pass the Book works:
Step One: Obtain six hundred copies of Midnighters.
Step Two: Tag each one with its own unique tracking number.
Step Three: Release them into the wild!
Step Four: Let people read the books, register them online, and pass them on as they see fit.
Step Five: Monitor them using the internets!
That’s right, six hundred copies of Midnighters: The Secret Hour are being given away free and are traveling across the country right now. They look like regular copies, except for this sticker:
There’s also a page inside with detailed instructions on how to register the book online. To check out where the registered copies are right now, just click here.
I was given one of these books at my appearance in Baltimore. To be precise, it was Midnighters number 130, a multiple of 13! It flew with me to Los Angeles that very night, where I gave it to a bookseller. So hopefully it will appear on the map soon.
If you find number 130, let me know! There are also three other copies that I autographed, all of which are multiples of thirteen.
Click here to read more about Pass the Book.
Touring Update: Justine will be in Philly tomorrow, Thursday, to talk about her new book Liar. I’ll probably come along to say hi, so maybe see you there.
Thursday, 29 October, 7:00 pm
Justine Larbalestier
Big Blue Marble Books
551 Carpenter Ln
.
Philadelphia, PA
Click here for the rest of Justine’s appearances. And here for my remaining tour details, including Canada. And click here to buy my new book, Leviathan!
In other news, it’s time for a special Halloween Walker Wednesday!
I’m in Miami Airport, hanging out and waiting for the airplane home. I’m sleepy, exhilarated, and slightly addled by everything that’s happened on the Leviathan tour—meeting a bunch of new fans, getting to know Sarah Rees Brennan and Robin Wasserman much better, and of course the awesome hotel fire!
But I’ve only slept in my own bed two nights since October 5 (TWO NIGHTS!), so it will be good to get back there. Justine just got back from the Austin Teen Lit Fest, where she had a blast, so the Larbfeld household will be complete.
To all you USians who missed this tour, I’m sorry I didn’t see you. And for those of you in Canada, click here for details of the next stage. See you next week.
And note that there will be a few bonus appearances in the US, mostly close to my home in NYC, which I’ll list here soon.
Now here’s some cool news for everyone:
You can now buy lovely prints of the Leviathan art in big, beautiful, framable sizes, directly from artist Keith Thompson! The Grand Map, the UK cover, and eight interiors are available. Click here for details.
Thanks to everyone in the Boston and DC areas. Robin and I had a great time. When we got to Politics and Prose, we found out that Holly Black and Tony Diterlizzi had just been there with their new Spiderwick book, and they left us a present:
An original Diterlizzi! Thanks to Holly and Tony for being so sweet.
For signed copies of our books, head to Politics and Prose in DC, Hooray for Books in Alexandria, VA, the Children’s Bookstore in Baltimore, or the Borders in Sterling, VA. We are everywhere.
Right now I’m in LA at the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association annual convention. But I won’t have time to do anything else before heading to Miami:
Sunday, October 25 6:00PM
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134
And there’s a TeenReads forum beforehand at 5PM. Robin has gone home, so it’s just me, but it should be cool.
After Florida, I finally get a week off, and them: Canada! Click here for all tour details.
And note that Justine is in Austin now, talking about her new book Liar.
Saturday, 24 October, 10:00 am -5:00 pm
Austin Teen Book Festival
Westlake High School
4100 Westbank Drive
Austin, TX
Click here for the rest of Justine’s appearances.
Bonus Updates:
I’m on the radio this weekend! You can tune into Inside Edition on Air America at noon Sunday (EST, I guess) and hear me interviewed by Ana Marie Cox. You can also download the segment from iTunes, it’s the 10/23 episode. We manage to give Leviathan a contemporary touch by talking about, um, balloon boy. (It was all a publicity stunt for me, it turns out.)
Also, I was recently on a post-apocalyptic YA panel in Manhattan, click here to read about it and to see my fabulous Dr. Who coat.
Still on the Leviathan tour, and I am SLEEPY. Thanks to everyone at RJ Julia in Madison and the Wellesley Booksmith for having me as a guest the last two evenings. And if you missed me, both of these stores have lots of signed copies of all my books sitting on their shelves.
In other news, the audio book of Leviathan is now available for download from either iTunes or Audible. As you may remember from this post, it’s read by the inestimable Alan Cumming.
Click here to download from Audible. Or here for iTunes.
| Or just check out this delicious sample chapter: | |
For the rest of this week, the Leviathan tour continues in and around our nation’s capital!
Thursday, October 22 4:30PM
(with Robin)
In-store signing at Politics and Prose
Location: 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Friday, October 23 10:30AM
(just me)
Morning event at The Children’s Bookstore
Location: 737 Deepdene Road
Baltimore, MD 21210
And then I go to Miami!
Sunday, October 25 6:00PM
(just me)
In-store signing at Books & Books
Location: 265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Click here for all tour details.
Also, don’t forget that my lovely wife Justine is still in Seattle talking about her new book Liar. And on Thursday she heads for Portland!
Here’s her schedule:
Thursday, 22 October, 4:00 pm
A Children’s Place
4807 NE Fremont St

Portland, Oregon
Thursday, 22 October, 7:00 pm
Barnes & Noble
12000 SE 82nd Avenue

Portland, OR 97266
And then she goes to Austin!
Saturday, 24 October, 10:00 am -5:00 pm
Austin Teen Book Festival
Westlake High School
4100 Westbank Drive
Austin, TX
Thanks to all of you who’ve come out for the Leviathan tour so far. It’s been great. No matter how tired I am, you guys give me energy.
Speaking of tired, I have a grand total of one (1) day off at home today. w00t! It’s going to be all about sleep and laundry (mostly laundry). And then I head to New England!
Sunday, October 18 4:00PM
In-store signing at RJ Julia
Location: 768 Boston Post Road
Madison, CT 06443
Monday, October 19 6:00PM
In-store signing at Wellesley Booksmith
Location: 82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
After that is Sterling, VA on Wednesday, Washington, DC on Thursday, Baltimore on Friday, and Miami on Sunday. Then Canada, then back to the NYC for a few more things. Click here for all tour details.
As noted earlier, Sarah Rees Brennan has left the tour to go write in Mexico. Sarah just posted her account of us touring together, with much hilarity and occasional fires. Check that out here.
Joining me from now on will be Robin Wasserman, author of the wonderful Skinned. You may remember her guest blogging here for a week last September. (Here’s her first post.) And we also did this IMterview together a while back.
For more about her books, check out these two YouTube clips.
For those of you who saw me (or missed me) in Seattle and Portland, I have some cool news. My lovely wife Justine is headed your way to talk about her book Liar. On Monday, 19 October at 4:00 pm, she’ll be at the Mukilteo, WA Public Library.
Click here for the rest of Justine’s appearances.
And, as always, click here to buy Leviathan.
And now, as promised, some photos from the tour:
Leviathan cupcakes at my agency’s launch of the book. And Sarah interviewed for TV at our A Day Made Better charity event on Day One.
First sightings of our books in the wild!
A nasty 4AM start is counteracted by lovely Jupiter over the plane wing and the oxygen bar at the Wordstock Book Festival.
Sarah and I head to Seattle. One should always dress glamorously for train travel.
Posters for Justine’s upcoming tour welcome me everywhere, which is nice because I MISS HER.
Delicious fan art!
More photos to come, including many from the Steampunk High Tea at Copperfield’s.
So I recently got the word that Leviathan is officially in stores in Australia. It launched on October 13 there, a week later than the US.
Apologies to my Aussie fans for having to wait. But now you have it! (Oi, oi, oi.)
The tour is still going great. No more fires, anyway. Had a wonderful event at Changing Hands in Arizona last night and at the 86th St. B&N here in Manhattan. It’ll be nice to sleep in my own bed tonight.
I’ll be in New Jersey tomorrow with Robin Wasserman. Come check us out at Books & Greetings in Northvale.
Friday, October 16 4:00PM
Books & Greetings
Location: 271 Livingston Street
Northvale, NJ 07647
Click here for all tour details.
Oh, and thanks to everyone who’s bought a copy or told a friend to buy one. Because of your enthusiasm, Leviathan has debuted at #5 on the New York Times Hardcover Children’s list. W00t!
I have two events today here in beautiful Arizona. Details about them, and then I’ll tell you about our hotel-on-fire experience of three nights ago.
First, however, thanks to TourTron for putting me at the Biltmore, which is a gorgeous Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired hotel and spa. Not just inspired by him, he also consulted on the design. I love me some FLW.
Here are the event details:
Wednesday October 14th, 2:00PM
Chandler Public Library
22 South Delaware Street
Chandler, AZ 85225
Wednesday October 14th, 7:00PM
Changing Hands Bookstore
Location: 6428 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85283
Alas, Sarah Rees Brennan has headed off to join Holy Black and Cassandra Clare in Mexico, so it’ll just be me.
Now for the fire in our Portland hotel:
It was about midnight, and a hideous whooping sound shattered my bedly ablutions. Then came an announcement to “stand by” while they determined the source of the alarm. So I was like, “Good, I don’t have to do anything.” But then I smelled smoke.
At this point, I was still hoping for an all-clear so I could go to bed. Touring is, after all, exhausting. (Touring buddy Sarah Rees Brennan and I had barely survived a 4:30AM pick-up the day before.) But the smoke smell was turning more chemically and weird, so finally I dressed and headed downstairs.
Saved: laptop and phone. Left behind: passport, chargers, and backup disk. I’d make a crappy refugee, I guess.
From the mezzanine full of pajama-clad fellow escapees, I called Sarah. She was still up in her room waffling. I told her about the firemen headed up the stairs past me, and sent here photographic proof:
Convinced of her peril, she decided to come down too. Note that she also brought her laptop and phone, and forgot her passport and chargers. (Hey, at least I had a coat.)
We then proceeded to post tweets, which is what one does in any emergency. I also got to follow up on an amusement earlier that day, when my publicist had reluctantly let me take a train alone. (Publicists never let authors escape in a strange city, because we’re not very clever about practical things.) I’d played a little jape on her, claiming for half a text message to have wound up in a distant borough. So now I could email her with the subject line “Hotel On Fire,” knowing she’d think I was a big liar. Hah! But I WASN’T LYING!
Oh, the fun we have.
Anyway, around 1AM they sounded the all-clear, and the fire turned out to have been towels in a dryer. So the morals of the story are:
1) Never cry wolf to your publicist. One day the wolves will really come.
2) Clean out those dryer filters. Lint is NOT your friend!
One more thing: All our fellow refugees in the lobby looked very bedraggled from being in bed. Now that’s an awesome etymology: “bed-raggled” = raggled from being in bed! (By way of full disclosure, I stole this from Brian Atterbury. But it occurred to me afresh that night.)
The tour continues. On Thursday I’ll be back in NYC briefly before heading to NJ, CT, and MA. See you soon, NYC peeps:
Thursday, October 15 7:00PM
Post-Apocalyptic Panel at Barnes & Noble
Location: 1280 Lexington Avenue (at 86th Street)
New York, NY 10028
Click here for all tour details.
ALSO: My lovely wife Justine Larbalestier will be discussing her amazing book Liar in Larchmont, NY on Friday night.
Justine Larbalestier
Friday, 16 October, 7:00 pm:
Voracious Reader
1997 Palmer Ave

Larchmont, NY
She hopes to see you there!
There’s a cool interview with Keith Thompson, the artist for Leviathan, over at Tor’s Steampunk Month!
Keith at work on Leviathan
Here’s a quote from the interview about researching the images:
What kind of research did you do for the book, either for artistic inspiration or for historical details?
“It’s a bit dangerous for me when the setup is as interesting as WWI. I actually had to pull back a bit as my research was taking away time from the art at points and it was making me far too pedantic about my details. That might have been fine for a drier and harder type of alternate past story, but I knew that Leviathan was meant to be a rip-roaring type of adventure and that a fun and fantastical angle to the art was extremely important.”
Click here to read the rest of the interview.
We are in Seattle tonight, then I’m headed solo onto Tempe, AZ!
(Sarah’s going to Mexico to write. Lucky person!)
Here’s where I’ll be for the next few days:
Monday October 12, 7:00PM
(with Sarah)
Third Place Books
Location: 17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 981555
Wednesday October 14th, 7:00PM
(just me)
Changing Hands signing
Location: 6428 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85283
You know what makes any sub-genre better? CAKES, that’s what!
Perhaps it’s not surprising, given that October is Steampunk Month, but one of my favorite blogs, Cake Wrecks, is all about the steampunk this week. Normally Cake Wrecks covers only weird, horrible cakes, but apparently everything steampunk is GOOD:
Click here to see more delicious steampunk cakes.
Here are the next few days of my tour:
Seattle
Monday October 12, 7:00PM
(with Sarah Rees Brennan)
Third Place Books
Location: 17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 981555
Tempe, Arizona
Wednesday October 14th, 7:00PM
(just me)
Changing Hands signing
Location: 6428 South McClintock Drive
Tempe, AZ 85283
Click here for all tour details.
Oh, and yes, there was a fire in our hotel last night. But we survived! When I have more time, I shall post photos of the (mild, easily controlled) emergency.
(Thanks to Kami Garcia for the headsup on these cakes!)
As you can see, my website has had its first makeover in many years. This is to celebrate the fact that my first new series in years, Leviathan, comes out this autumn. (October 6, to be exact.)
Things may be wonky for a while as we play around under the hood. But I hope you enjoy the new look. Let me know what you think!
Click here to contact Scott Westerfeld.
Jill Grinberg
Jill Grinberg Literary Management
info@grinbergliterary.com
