Two astoundingly accomplished team-ups of authors explore their many attractions to weird romance and speculative fiction, and all the things that happen when you create genre-bending graphic novels in collaboration! Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell (Bizarre Romance) and Alex de Campi and Katie Skelly(Twisted Romance) . Moderated by Tor Books editor Diana Pho.

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Authors Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell, whose works have both been inspired by visual representation, some even converted to films, will be discussing their newest anthology Bizarre Romance with a fellow member of the writing and editing community, Donna Seaman. This collection both celebrates and satirizes the many types of love we experience as humans. The various relationships explored by the variety of authors will be an inspiration for conversation.

Audrey and Eddie will be special guests at the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo on June 2-3. We will have a table at CAKE where we will be selling copies of Bizarre Romance as well as other published works by Audrey and Eddie.

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Both renowned creators in their own fields, Chicago novelist Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and Scottish cartoonist Eddie Campbell (From Hell) began creating comics together in 2014 and, after a long distance relationship, married this past year. Bizarre Romance, their new project, provides thirteen stories set in a variety of situations and styles written by Audrey and illustrated by Eddie. They’ll discuss the book and the intricacies of working with your partner on collaborative art.

Internationally bestselling authors Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell, discuss their collaboration Bizarre Romance. Chaired by international comics expert, and man at the crossroads, Paul Gravett.

Join us at Women and Children First as we celebrate the launch of BIZARRE ROMANCE. 

International bestselling authors Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell, have collaborated to create 13 quirky, irreverent vignettes about love, loss, fairies, regret, wanton wrongheadedness, cats, supernatural exterminators, and more cats! With Niffenegger’s sharp, imaginative prose and Campbell’s diverse comic art styles, Bizarre Romance explores the good, the bad, the ugly, and the just plain weird through re-imaginings of classic fairy tale characters, love letters during the apocalypse, and more. 

On Monday 11 December Sotheby’s in London will auction a collection of 33 unique collectible first editions with beautiful original dust-jackets designed, and generously donated, by leading artists and designers.

Audrey will be interviewing author Donna Seaman about her new book Identity Unknown at the Printer's Row Lit Fest, June 10, 2017 at 3:30 pm. More information can be found here. 

Join us at The Book Cellar to hear Brandon S. Graham, author of two new books, Missing People and Good for Nothing, in conversation with Audrey Niffenegger.

On January 15, 2017, the date of Martin Luther King’s birth, over 75 Chicago authors will join writers across the United States and worldwide, coming together for Chicago #WRITERS RESIST, a “re-inauguration” of compassion, equality, free speech, and the fundamental ideals of democracy.

The Book Cellar is very excited to welcome Gina Frangello and Audrey Niffenegger as they discuss Gina's new book Every Kind of Wanting!
 

To celebrate the publication of Neil Gaiman’s collection of non-fiction, The View from the Cheap Seats, the award-winning author will be joined by Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveller’s Wife, at a rare public event in London.

Join us for a reading and signing with bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, as she discusses her new riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier, At The Edge of the Orchard. This event will also feature a conversation with a very special guest—Audrey Niffenegger—one of the contributors to Tracy's forthcoming anthology Reader, I Married Him: Stories Inspired by Jane Eyre.

In honor of Charlotte Bronte's 200th birthday, authors Tracy Chevalier (Girl with the Pearl Earring), Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife), and Namwali Serpell present an evening of original stories from a remarkable new collection inspired by Jane Eyre's most famous line. 

Audrey will be participating in the Literary Death Match at iO Club Chicago on March 10th, 2016 at 7:30 pm. The following is information from the Literary Death Match site:

Audrey will be reading at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa on November 17th at the Bama Theatre. 

Collected by Audrey Niffenegger, the acclaimed bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, Ghostly is a fabulous anthology of the best ghost stories of all time, including a new one by Niffenegger called “A Secret Life with Cats.” In addition, Niffenegger has written an introduction to each piece and included her own illustration for each. From Poe to Neil Gaiman, H.. Munro to Ray Bradbury, and so many more going from the 18th century to modern times, Ghostly traces the evolution of the ghost story genre with a particular emphasis on stories about haunting.

Audrey will join panel members Luis Urrea, Anna March, and Megan Stielstra to discuss Beyond Lolita: Literary Writers on Sex and Sexuality, presented by Women and Children First to benefit PEN American Center and PEN Writers' Emergency Fund. A signing will follow.

October 31 wouldn’t be complete without a haunting or two. Chicago’s own Audrey Niffenegger delivers the ghoulish goods with her new collection, Ghostly. From Edgar Allan Poe to Kelly Link, M. R. James to Neil Gaiman, Niffenegger’s selections reveal the evolution of the ghost story with tales going back to the 19th century and into the modern era.

Ghostly reveals the evolution of the ghost story genre with tales going back to the eighteenth century and into the modern era, ranging across styles from Gothic Horror to Edwardian to the New Weird. Collected and introduced by Audrey Niffenegger (bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry) and including her own fabulous original illustrations, this is a unique and haunting anthology of some of the best ghost stories of all time. Niffenegger hosts a Halloween reading from the anthology at Greenlight, with appearances by writers (including Amy Giacalone) included in the collection. Guests are invited to come in Halloween costumes, and the authors will also serve as judges for a costume contest with prizes! Halloween refreshments will be served for a hauntingly festive evening.

Audrey Niffenegger joins writers Lauren Groff, Kirstin Innes, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir and Neil Smith as they read from their latest works. Catherine Graham hosts.

Join us at The Book Cellar as Audrey Niffenegger presents Ghostly: A Collection of Ghost Stories, with fellow author and contributor Amy Giacalone.

Join us as we celebrate the book release of Ghostly, a collection of ghost stories selected, edited and illustrated by Audrey Niffenegger, with additional readings by Donna Seaman, Eric Charles May, and Amy Giacalone whose story, Tiny Ghosts, is included in this volume.

As the nights draw in and Halloween approaches join us at the Tabernacle for a candlelit evening of haunted houses, chilling tales and things that go bump in the night. Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveller's Wife), Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentleman, Ghost Stories) and Kim Newman (Anno Dracula) discuss the art of the ghost story.