Release Date, Contract City: March 31, 2015 

But you can pre-order now online from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Books-A-Million, Target, Bookpeople (Austin), Tattered Cover (Denver), Brazos Bookstore (Houston), The Twig Book Shop (San Antonio).

Austin Community College // Class Talk, Reading, Q&A: Thursday, April 9 

Travis High School // Reading, Q&A: Friday, April 17

James Bowie High School // Reading, Q&A: Wednesday, April 29


Tulsa event // University of Tulsa Bookstore: Friday, May 1, 6PM

Austin event // BookPeople: Friday, May 8, 7PM

Anderson High School // Reading, Q&A: Thursday, May 14, 3PM 


Dallas event // The Wild Detectives May 26, evening TBA

Tulsa TV: ABC affiliate KTUL's Good Day Tulsa, May 28
Watch:  ktul.com/archive/contract-city

Houston event // Brazos Bookstore June 10, 7PM

Austin event // Book Club September 23, 8PM

Austin event // One Page Salon @ Whip-In October 6, 7PM

​Austin event // Novel Night @ Malvern Books December 10, 7PM

Austin Radio // KOOP 91.7 Writing on the Air, March 9, 2016, 6-7PM

Fort Worth event // 2016 DFWcon, April 23-24
Fort Worth Convention Center

Midland Event // 2016 Permian Basin Writers' Workshop, September 16-18 Midland College, Midland, Texas

Texas Author Summit at the Texas Book Festival on Nov. 3, 2016
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San Marcos Event // Author Day, San Marcos Public Library, TBA November 2016

Johnson City Event // Johnson City Library Anniversary Writers' Conference February 22, 2017

Austin Event // Writers' League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference
​Hyatt Regency Austin
June 30-July 2, 2017  

Midland Event // 2017 Permian Basin Writers' Workshop
Midland College, Midland, Texas
September 15-17, 2017

Rochester, NY Event // 2018 Ladder Literary Conference
presented by Writers & Books
Rochester Riverside Convention Center
June 16, 2018

ArmadilloCon - August 3-5, 2018 


The Late Bloomer: The Unlike a Virgin Tour, October 2018:

Tulsa - Magic City Books
Dallas - Interabang Books (with writer Will Clarke)
Austin - Travis High School (5 readings)
Austin - McCallum High School
Houston - Murder by the Book
San Antonio - The Twig Book Shop
Austin - BookPeople (with radio host Martha Louise Hunter)

Friends of the SMU Libraries Event: Tables of Content
10 Haute Young Authors, March 30, 2019
SMU Library Event

Austin - Malvern Books, October 10, 2019 7pm (with Amy Gentry and Jeff Abbott)

2019 Writing Workshop of Austin TX on Friday, Nov. 15

Electronic Arts (EA) Creativity Summit, Featured Speaker, July 2020 *Covid cancelled*

​American University in Rome, Class Talk, Nov. 11, 2022