I'm so sorry not to have updated this sooner. So many people have written to me, some in sorrow, some in anger, protesting that I hadn't put dates up and we'd missed each other. It wasn't the webmaster's fault but mine. You see? I really wasn't lying about the mushrooms in the shower.

March

Australia:

Sunday 2nd
Adelaide Festival, Adelaide Town Hall
Sunday crime

Monday 3rd
11 am
WIndow on Scotland
with James Meeks and Kirsty Gunn

8pm
Adelaide Town Hall
with Linda Grant Tim parks and Deborah Moggach

Tuesday 4th 1.15pm
Solo event West Tent

Friday 7th 4pm
Friday Crime
with Marshall Brown, Garry Disher and Gabrielle Lord

UK

Wednesday 12th 7.30pm
Aye Write Festival
Mitchell Library Glasgow
Denise and Val McDermid

USA

Chicago
Saturday 29th 3:00pm
Barbara's

Austin
Sunday 30th 3:00pm
Book People

April

San Fransciso
Tuesday 1st 7pm
Book Passage

Wednesday 2nd (midday)
San Fransciso F Mystery Book Shop/ M is for Mystery

Thursday 3rd
(midday)
Portland Murder by the Book

7pm
Powell’s (Cedar Hills)

UK

Friday 18th
Scarborough Festival
Chairing Ian Rankin

Saturday 19th
Scaraborough Festival
On with a bunch of renegades whose names escape me, probably Mark Billingham, because I'm looking forward to it.

Sorry, it's all getting a bit vague from here on in. It seems so long away
and someone will contact me nearer the time with details, won't they?

May

Wednesday 14th
West Dunbarton

July

Friday 18th (ish) (probably)
Harrogate Festival

October

Thursday 2nd
Inverness!
God's own country. I used to live in Invergordon and it's lovely up there, the people are so nice, if you stay away from drunk fishermen (long story).