{"id":1897,"date":"2011-02-04T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2011-02-04T14:13:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T20:13:56","slug":"upcoming-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have some events coming up in the next few months that I thought I should mention.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be signing books at The Purple Cow bookstore in Tooele, UT on Saturday, February 12th at 2:00 PM.\u00a0 It&#8217;s their &#8220;Kids Love Authors Day&#8221; and it should be a lot of fun.\u00a0 For details, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepurplecowbookstore.com\/node\/3872\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be presenting at the &#8220;Teen Author Boot Camp&#8221; on Saturday, April 23rd.\u00a0 This is an all-day workshop for teen writers (open to ages 13 to 19) and a great opportunity.\u00a0 I wish I&#8217;d had something like this when I was a teen.\u00a0 Bestselling Kiersten White, author of <em>Paranormalcy<\/em>, will be giving the keynote speech.\u00a0 For details and registration, <a href=\"http:\/\/writerscubed.com\/events_TeenBootCamp.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be speaking at the annual conference of the Utah Library Association on May 13th. I&#8217;m excited about this, as the theme this year &#8211; Utah Libraries: At the Core of Our Communities &#8211; really speaks to me.\u00a0 For details, <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.ula.org\/content\/author-address-clockwork-three-matthew-kirby\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll be presenting at the Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop.\u00a0 This week-long workshop runs from June 13th to the 17th in Sandy, Utah.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll blog in more detail about this, I&#8217;m sure.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=115\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I&#8217;m a huge fan of this workshop<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 For registration and details, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wifyr.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been doing school visits, and I&#8217;m having so much fun getting out and meeting young readers.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re interested in having me come speak to your students, feel free to contact me via the link in the side-bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have some events coming up in the next few months that I thought I should mention.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be signing books at The Purple Cow bookstore in Tooele, UT on Saturday, February 12th at 2:00 PM.\u00a0 It&#8217;s their &#8220;Kids Love Authors Day&#8221; and it should be a lot of fun.\u00a0 For details, click here.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be presenting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-the-clockwork-three"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-uB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}