Schedule of Appearances

SCHEDULE OF APPEARANCES

This schedule includes not only upcoming appearances but appearances Katherine has made over the past several years. Material from these is often available in Internet archives.

Please address your invitations for Katherine Neville to attend conferences, lectures, or fundraisers to events@KatherineNeville.com.

Current:

Saturday, March 25, 2006
2 p.m. Murderous Times, Murderous Settings (Crime Wave)
VA BOOK! VIRGINIA FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK, Charlottesville, Virginia
Katherine Neville (The Eight), Joseph Kanon (Alibi), Peter Quinn
(Hour of the Cat, Steve Berry (The Third Secret) (Moderated by Tom
Nolan)
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Nancy Damon, Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 145 Ednam Drive,
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Phone: 434-924-7548
Fax: 434-296-4714
email: vabook@virginia.edu
website: www.vabook.org
Twelfth Annual Virginia Festival of the Book,
March 22-26, 2006 in Charlottesville, Virginia

APRIL:

MALICE DOMESTIC (The Agatha Christie Awards)
Washington DC
www.MaliceDomestic.org

DA VINCI DECODED
10:30 A.M., Saturday, April 22, 2006
Crystal City Marriott, Crystal City, Virginia
Sharan Newman (The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code), Lyn
Hamilton (The Maltese Goddess), Vladimir Lange (Fatal Memories)
(Katherine Neville Moderates)

JUNE:

THRILLERFEST
Phoenix Biltmore, Phoenix, Arizona
June 29-July 2
www.InternationalThrillerWriters.org

ADVENTURES IN RESEARCH
Cliffhanging adventures of the most adventurous authors.
(Time not posted)
Caroline Carver (Beneath the Snow), Steve Berry (The Templar Legacy),
David Hewson (The Sacred Cut), Brad Geagley (Year of the Hyenas)
(Katherine Neville Moderates)

Previous appearances:

Baltimore Book Festival on September 18, 2004, talking on INTRIGUE AT HOME AND ABROAD. Fellow panelists included: Steve Berry (THE ROMANOV PROPHECY), Dan Fesperman (WAR LORD'S SON), Laura Lippman (BY A SPIDER'S THREAD) and Louise Titchener (GUN SHY).
Bouchercon Mystery conference in Toronto, Canada, October 9, 2004, on a panel on IN FROM THE COLD: THE THRILLER IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM. Fellow panelists included: Gayle Lynds (THE COIL), David Morrell (THE PROTECTOR), David Liss (CONSPIRACY OF PAPER), and Raelynn Hillhouse (RIFT ZONE).
February 1998: Georgia Tech Women's Leadership Conference
With Astronaut Jan Davis and Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Katherine's speech: Quest for the Renaissance Woman
July 1998: Mystery Conference at Book Passage, Corte Madera, California
With Authors Martin Cruz Smith and Lawrence Block.
September, 1998: Congress on New Paradigms, Sponsored by Mas Alla, Madrid, Spain
With Karl Pribram, Marilyn Ferguson (Aquarian Conspiracy)
Katherine's speech: The Esoteric Founding of America
October, 1998: Blue Ridge Writers Conference, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia
With Author John Casey, keynote
November, 1998 Book Bash fund raiser for Literary Works
Bibelot Bookstore, Timonium Maryland
December, 1998: Authors and Critics,
Katherine was the first author interviewed for this nationally syndicated PBS series
June, 1999: Creative Genius and Madness Conference, Radford University,
Radford Virginia
Katherine Spoke on Isadora Duncan
July, 1999: Mystery Conference at Book Passage, Corte Madera, California
With Authors Robert Crais, Elizabeth George, and others
September, 1999: Orkney Science Fair, Orkney Islands, Scotland
With Karl Pribram, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas (The Hiram Key, The Second Messiah)
Katherine spoke on Egyptians, Druids, Cathars
October 5, 1999: Karl Pribram is the first recipient of the Havel Prize, awarded by the foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic. The prize honors the individual whose life work
has served to unite the sciences and the humanities.The second recipient, the following year, was author Umberto Eco, and the third was philosopher Zdenick Neubauer.
With scientists Walter Freeman, Stuart Kauffman, Arthur Zajonc, Basil Hiley, Isabelle Stengers, and the Center for Theoretical Studies, Prague
October, 1999: Bringing Research Alive, workshop with author Sarah Smith (The Vanished Child, The Knowledge of Water)
Book Passage, Corte Madera, California
How to interweave research flawlessly into your story
January, 2000: Millbrook School
Katherine was the annual Invited Speaker, and presented to the entire school
November 9-12, 2000 Katherine spoke at the Houston Space Center during the Romantic Times Book Fair.
March 24, 2000 at 2 p.m. Katherine chaired a panel on "Beginning a Novel" at the Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, VA.
Panelists included Lucinda Roy (Lady Moses), Brad Meltzer (Dead Even), Ann Goette (Midnight Lemonade), and David Baldacci (Absolute Power)
April 3, 2000 Katherine co-chaired the Authors Guild Foundation Fundraising Banquet at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. Garrison Keillor hosted the evening.
May, 2000: Malice Domestic, conference of Sisters in Crime, Washington DC
Panel on "Plot and Pacing", with authors Katherine Hall Page, Rhys Bowen, Arline Chase, and Toni Kelner
September 1-8, 2000, Katherine spoke at the Orkney Science Fair in Kirkwall,
September 30, 2000 Katherine co-hosted the Annual Blue Ridge Writers' Conference at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.
October, 2000: College of Charleston
Katherine spoke about the Universal Novel
December 15, 16, 17, 2000 Katherine spoke at the Sufi Symposium in Istanbul, Ankara, and Konya, Turkey.
In April 2001, Katherine and Sarah Smith taught the second year of their popular workshop at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA, on "Putting the Passion in Your Writing."
How to deal with visceral emotions--anger, fear, love, lust--in your writing
November, 2001: Association of University Women
With writers Daniel Stashower (Teller of Tales,the Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle) and Helen Thomas (Front Row at the White House).
April, 2002: "Pacing, Plotting, and Perseverance: The Middle of the Book," with author Sarah Smith (A Citizen of the Country); Book Passage, Corte Madera, California
How to get through that long, dry desert from the beginning of the book to the end. The third installment in their popular workshop.
November 5, 2002. The Coffee Bean, Annapolis MD, as part of the Daughters of Scheherezade conference: November 4-6, 2002, Washington DC and Annapolis, Maryland. With Authors Lailee Bakhtiar (Harem Letters, Mending Fences) and Alev Croutier (Harem: the World Behind the Veil and Palace of Tears). To launch the publication of Croutier's new book, Seven Houses, the three authors spoke on the Eastern storytelling
techniques that all three employ in various ways in their work.