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appearances
I update this page quite often so check back now and again. As usual, please call the venue to check times and dates before you set out just in case I get struck by lightning or something.

Updated 19th June 2013: Time at Caerleon festival added



2013


21st to 23rd June 2013
Winchester Writer's Festival


Masterclass on the friday and one-on-ones on the Saturday

More details from their website: Winchester Writer's Conference


July 13th, Saturday
Caerleon Arts Festival, Nr Newport, S. Wales


Event at 2:45in the Priory Hotel.

Festival Programme


September 2013
USA Publication of DS-2: Song of the Quarkbeast


Two week USA Tour between the 7th and 22nd, ending up at The National Book Festival at the Library of Congress, Washington DC.


October 2013
UK Publication of DS-3: The Return of Shandar


Possible short schools tour.



Friday 18th October
Penarth Book Festival - talk


Organised by Penarth Fesival





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.