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TechTV/G4 Attack of the Show appearance

I did a great little segment on Little Brother and DRM for TechTV/G4’s Attack of the Show yesterday as part of my San Francisco book tour appearances.

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Audio from last night’s appearance at Cody’s in Berkeley

Al Billings recorded my appearance at Cody’s Books in Berkeley last night and posted the audio to the Internet Archive.

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Little Brother at Los Altos Main Branch Library and San Francisco’s Borderlands Books today

Today’s the last day of the Bay Area leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother. This afternoon, it’s the Los Altos Library Main Branch and tonight, the wonderful Borderlands Books in San Francisco. Hope you’ll make it!

Los Altos Main Library, Los Altos, CA
13 South San Antonio Rd
Los Altos, CA 94022
* Event held in conjunction with Linden Tree Children’s Books
(650)949-3390
Thursday, May 22, 2008
4:00 pm

Borderlands, San Francisco, CA
Thursday, May 22, 2008
866 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

7:00 pm

Link to tour schedule

Little Brother waypoints in San Francisco mapped

Jono decided to map all the locales mentioned in Little Brother, using Google’s Keyhole — he’s not a San Francisco native, though, and wants help from you all with his way-points (they look pretty good to me!).

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Link to Google Map display of Little Brother landmarks,

Link to data-file

(Thanks, Jono!)

Little Brother at Berkeley’s Cody’s Books and Dark Carnival today

I’m in San Francisco now, on my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother. Today, I’m at Cody’s Books and Dark Carnival in Berkeley, and tomorrow I’m at the Los Altos Library Main Branch and Borderlands Books in San Francisco. Hope you’ll make it!

Dark Carnival, Berkeley, CA
3086 Claremont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
(510) 654-7232

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
5:30 pm

Cody’s Books Inc., Berkeley, CA

2201 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94704
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
7:00 pm

Link to tour schedule

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We’re Not Scum tee

Brand Gamblin was inspired by Little Brother to make this WE MAY BE YOUNG, WE MAY BE DUMB, BUT WE AREN’T SCUM tee with Zazzle. How cool!

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Free event at NYC’s Books of Wonder, May 26

We’ve just finalized the details for a second NYC appearance on my book tour for Little Brother. On Monday, May 26, I’ll be appearing at midtown’s Books of Wonder from 5-7 PM for a free reading/talk/signing, complete with cupcakes!

This is in addition to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit on the night of May 25 at Comix — hope to see you in New York!

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HOWTO lie to authority figures

Instructables has just posted the latest installment in its ongoing series of HOWTOs inspired by my young adult novel Little Brother. This week, they tackle the all-important skill of lying to authority figures.

There are certain tells that can give away that someone is lying. For instance, when my dad lies he gets all bug-eyed. In fact, many people do that.

To keep from giving yourself away the first thing you want to do is keep eye contact with the person you are talking to. Unless, you are one of those freaks that never make eye contact with anyone. Then, whatever you do, don’t make eye contact.

The best way to make eye contact is to focus on an imaginary spot somewhere to the left of their head around their left ear. This will seem like you are looking straight at them.

Keep a neutral and relaxed posture and don’t do anything that would make you seem nervous like shake or scratch your neck. I like to stay relaxed by singing Irish folk songs to myself. The kind of song that goes on and on and on.

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Little Brother at All for Kids Books Seattle this afternoon

This afternoon on the Seattle leg of my book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother, I’ll be at All For Kids Books and More. I’m here for one more day, coming to Third Place Books on Tuesday, then it’s on to San Francisco. Hope to see you!

All For Kids Books, Seattle, WA
Monday, May 19, 2008
2900 N.E. Blakeley
Seattle, WA 98105
4:00 pm

Link to tour schedule

Little Brother in NYC: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund benefit

We’ve just announced the first of two events in New York as part of the book tour for my young adult novel Little Brother: a charity fundraiser for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund at the nightclub Comix. The CBLDF is a fantastic organization who work tirelessly to defend comics professionals, distributors and retailers from laws that censor the content of comics (often in response to the decades-old moral panic that comics are warping the morals of our children). I’m an annual donor to CBLDF and it tickles me to be able to support them in other ways.

There’s going to be one other New York event, a free reading at a midtown bookstore, that I’ll be announcing in the next day or so. I hope I see you at one or both events!

On May 25 join Cory Doctorow to celebrate the premiere of LITTLE BROTHER, his New York Times Best Selling Young Adult Fiction debut! Cory will present an all-ages reading & Q&A to benefit the First Amendment legal work of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!

Addressing internet and government security, censorship, and civil liberties in a post-9/11 atmosphere, LITTLE BROTHER tackles timely issues while telling a smart, funny, and jam-packed-with-pop culture story…

Proceeds from this event will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The CBLDF provides legal defense on behalf of artists, retailers, and librarians facing criminal and civil prosecution for First Amendment related actions. The Fund also fights unconstitutional legislation that threatens First Amendment rights. Most recently, the CBLDF won a three year legal battle in Georgia, where Gordon Lee, a retailer, faced up to two years in prison for allegedly distributing a comic book containing drawings of Picasso in the nude to a minor. All charges were dismissed, but only after more than three years and $100,000 of CBLDF resources were spent to prove Lee’s innocence..

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