Once you’ve finally got your book in your hand, it’s hard to know where to go next. Every community has farmer’s markets or street fairs where authors are welcome to peddle their wares. San Diego has several and we are including the general Southern California area.
If you investigate local chapters of your genre’s associations (such as San Diego’s Partners in Crime), they usually have shared tables at local events, also. Most of them are repeated every year!
Publisher’s Weekly keeps an updated global calendar of book events.
If we’ve left one off the list, or you spot an error/update, please let us know.
If you’d like to see where I’ll be this year, go to my calendar.
2024 Author Events
January
31-Feb 2nd: Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
?? Authors Night, Mainstreet Oceanside
February
March
1-2nd: Children’s Literature Festival
9th: Literary Festival of Women Authors
29-31st: WonderCon
April
5th: San Diego Writer’s Festival
11-14th: Left Coast Crime
26-27th (2025): LA Times Festival of Books
?? YallWest Book Festival
May
June
27-July 2nd: ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
July
25-28th: San Diego Comic Con
August
??: San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books (canceled?)
1-4th: Steamy Lit Con (The Rom Con)
September
22nd: Orange County Children’s Book Festival
28th: Idyllwild Author Faire
October
?? Latino Book & Family Festival
5th: Write On, Oceanside
12th: Once Upon a Book Fair
26th: North Park Book Fair
November
24th: Encinitas Holiday Street Fair
December
Google local holiday craft and maker fairs!
For example: the Idyllwild Christmas Market Festival