I’ll be joining Laura Marston, owner of GoGo Refill zero-waste store in Portland, Maine, to discuss and sign Total Garbage. Details to come. Laura and her tips for wasting less are featured in the book.
I’ll be delivering a keynote address at the annual conference of the Maine Resource Recovery Association at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine.
We’re having a virtual town hall with members of the Ridwell community in Seattle to discuss Total Garbage. Ridwell is a social impact corporation and subscriber service that plugs the gaps in our recycling and waste systems, connecting suppliers and charities with valuable materials and goods that would otherwise be wasted.
The Shakespeare Club in Pasadena, one of the oldest women’s clubs in the West, has invited me to speak about Total Garbage! Please note: This is a members only, private event.
Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council will host a Total Garbage evening at its new Eco Hub downtown. Details to come!
I’ll be speaking at the Chautauqua Women’s Club in upstate New York, kicking off the summer season at this 135-year-old center for literature, the arts, cultural enrichment and the exchange of new ideas. Details.
Come celebrate Earth Day and join the conversation about Total Garbage at Seattle’s Elliot Bay Book Company, where I’ll share the stage with one of the game changers featured in the book, Ryan Metzger, CEO of Ridwell. C-SPAN will carry the conversation.
I’ll be on KING-5 TV’s Seattle morning show New Day Northwest talking about Total Garbage for Earth Day.
I’ll be discussing Total Garbage at the Earth Day meeting of the Palos Verdes Democrats at the Peninsula Center Library in Rolling Hills Estates.
I’ll be joining three other environmental authors— Rosanna Xia, Jeff Goodell, Dan Egan —and the LA Times’s climate columnist Sammy Roth at the LA Times Festival of Books , where we’ll discuss our very different yet related books on environmental crises and solutions. Come join us at the USC campus. Details and tickets here.
I’ll be joining Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley to talk trash—for real!—at one of the Pacific Northwest’s premiere books and conversations series, Northwest Passages in Spokane. Tickets for the event, hosted at Gonzaga University's Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center, are available here.
Mandy Jackson-Beverly and I talk “Total Garbage” on her popular Bookshop Podcast.
Join me for the Los Angeles launch of Total Garbage at Diesel, a Book Store in Brentwood and a lively conversation with LA Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia, author of the award-winning book, California Against the Sea. We’ll be signing books after. Seat reservation and preorder information here.
I’ll be at New York City’s 92nd Street Y’s Center for Culture and Arts discussing Total Garbage with Andrew Revkin, longtime New York Times environmental writer now running the Sustain What webcast. The “Trash Your Trash for Earth Day” virtual event starts at 7 pm ET (4 pm PT). Register here.
I’ll be on the True Crime panel at the San Diego Union-Tribute Festival of Books at the University of San Diego Saturday, August 19 to discuss The Forever Witness.
We’ll be discussing The Forever Witness and I’ll be signing copies at the monthly meeting of the American Association of University Women in Huntington Beach.
We’ll be discussing Garbology and sustainability in the lead-up to Earthday at the Chadwick School on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, California.
I’ll be discussing The Forever Witness at the Southern California Genealogical Society’s annual conference in Burbank, an in-person and virtual event. Details and registration here.
I’ll be a keynote speaker and in conversation about my book Garbology with students and faculty at the University of Minnesota-Morris for Self Sustain 2023.
I’ll be joining CeCe Moore at her annual conference in San Diego to discuss The Forever Witness. Details to come. Conference info here.
I’ll be meeting virtually with the Innocence Project of Texas Book Club for a conversation about Burned: A Story of Murder and the Crime That Wasn’t.
On Day 2 of the Tucson Festival of Books, we’ll be talking about the renaissance in cold case investigations created by the latest DNA magic, genetic genealogy, central to my new book, The Forever Witness. On the panel with me: true-crime authors Paul Holes and Daniel Stashower.
Join me for a true crime conversation, “Analyzing the Criminal Mind,” on Day 1 of the Tucson Festival of Books, where I’ll be discussing and signing The Forever Witness. With me on the panel: true-crime authors Kathleen Hale and Paul Holes.
I’ll be at Northwest Passages community forum in conversation about The Forever Witness. The main event is now at the Spokane Central Library, and the VIP reception is still at the Spokesman-Review Tower . Tickets for both from the original snowed-out December event will be honored, and more tickets are available. Information and tickets
Join me, National Book Award winner Tess Gunty, and our host, writer, actress, author and commentator Sandra Tsing Loh at Bookish. Register for this virtual conversation at the Southern California Newsgroup. .
I’ll be at Orange County’s crime and suspense bookstore, Book Carnival, to discuss The Forever Witness.
My conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist and author Eli Saslow about The Forever Witness, hosted by the Spokesman-Review newspaper Northwest Passages Community Book Club, has been postponed due to the snowstorm engulfing Spokane and other areas of Washington. We’re looking at doing it in January, so join us in Spokane in the New Year. More details coming soon.
I’ll be discussing and signing The Forever Witness at Pasadena’s great Vroman’s Bookstore, in a crime and science conversation with PEN Award-winning author and physicist Len Mlodinow.
I’ll be celebrating the launch of The Forever Witness with a virtual event hosted by the Everett Public Library in Snohomish County, Washington, scene of the first genetic genealogy murder trial in history, as well as many key events in my book. Click here for more information about attending this free event, which starts at 6 PM Pacific Time.
Today is Pub Day for my new book, The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder. Pre-order now with your favorite bookseller.
I’ll be in a virtual conversation with Sarah Nichols of the Natural Natural Resources Council of Maine to discuss Garbology, the future of recycling and Maine’s role as a leader in sustainability. Join the conversation Thursday Sept. 15 at noon ET, 9 AM PT. Register and find more information here.
How do we tell the climate story in ways the fire people up rather than leaving them in despair? That’s the challenge I’ll be discussing at the West Coast Climate Crisis Symposium at UCLA Saturday, June 4, 2022, 2 p.m. Join us online or at the campus.
