FIRST APPEARANCES for THE MAN IN THE STONE COTTAGE
SEPTEMBER 19th 2025 at the Salamagundi Club Coffee House Club
12:15 semi-private event details to come. 47 Fifth Avenue at 12th street
Space is limited.Books available for purchase.
Major Debut Reading:SEPTEMBER 30 2025 AT 6:30 BOOK CULTURE NYC
IN CONVERSATION WITH ALICE (ALI) TUFEL: editor, writer, friend
Invitations will go out by e-mail. Space is limited.Books available for purchase.
536 West 112th Street
OCTOBER 20TH 2025 at 6:30 in the fabulous Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village, Mae West Room
Space is limited. Books are available for purchase.
6th Avenue and 10th street, one of the great historical buildings
SPRING 2026 (date to come)
Millburn Library, Millburn New Jersey
PAST APPEARANCES FOR THE BOY IN THE RAIN
OCTOBER 19 evening at ST. CLEMENT'S CHURCH in PHILADELPHIA.
2013 Appletree St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (215) 563-1876
This historic church, built in 1862, was visited by Oscar Wilde in 1882 on his American tour. His cousin was rector there at the time. Less than 20 years later, when the punitive laws against homosexuality had imprisoned and then shortened the life of Wilde, the two lovers in BOY IN THE RAIN must still conceal themselves against the same laws. Books available for purchase.
NOVEMBER 12, 2023 at THE CENTER 208 West 13th Street NYC at 3:00 pm
RECLAIMING THE PAST: LGBT HISTORICAL FICTION (set in 1901-1928)
with novelists Stephanie Cowell (The Boy in the Rain), Lance Ringel (Flower of Iowa), Sebastian Dureaux-Russell (Burning with a Blue Flame)
catered by Tea & Sympathy. Books available for purchase. All book profits for the legendary Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center.
DEBUT READING ON PUBICATION DAY AT BOOK CULTURE
IN CONVERSATION WITH ALICE (ALI) TUFEL: editor, writer, friend
JUNE 1 2023:
The fabulous Upper West Side BOOK CULTURE 536 West 112th Street at 7:00. Invitations will go out by e-mail. Space is limited.Books available for purchase.
JUNE 4 at 3:00 LITERARY TEA AT PRINCETON LIBRARY with novelist Lauren B. Davis
65 Witherspoon, Princeton, New Jersey (609) 924-9529. Books Available for Purchase.
JUNE 7 AT 6:30 AT THE NYC HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY
This event will be held in the historic Jefferson Market Public Library in Greenwich Village 425 Avenue of the Americas at 10th Street. You can see the tower a way off, built in 1887 in Victorian Gothic style. The program will also feature historical novelist Mary Calvi and her novel If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love. Our host is Christina Britton Conroy, herself an Edwardian novelist. This program will be recorded and will be available some time after the presentation. Books available for purchase.
SEPTEMBER 14 at 6:00 ZOOM
with Andrea Simon, Pam Leggett and Jane Gardner
Q&A from moderators and audience, and vintage photography presentation of Robbie and Anton's Edwardian world.
Announcements and invites to come thru email, FB and Evite.
SEPTEMBER 18th 6:00 Phoenixville Library in Chester County, PA. With Christine Emmert.
(610) 933-3013.
Stephanie and Christine (poet, playwright, actress and novelist) have been friends since thet met at the age of fifteen. They will talk about their long friendship and how they helped each other grow as writers. Books available for purchase.
SOME PAST APPEARNCES
Madeleine L'Engle Confeence NYC November 2019. Madeleine was my mentor.
June 22-24 2017, Portland Oregon
The Historical Novel Conference
appearing on three panels:
WHEN THEY WERE STILL IN THE CLOSET about gay characters in historical fiction
THE AUDACITY OF WILL: Writing Shakespeare as character
SWASHBUCKLING MEN: WRITING THE MALE PERSPECTIVE