Events in October

October is a really busy month. Too bad teleportation isn't a reality. So many interesting things to do, and spread out across the county.

October 2012
National Cyber-Security Awareness Month

• 29 September-6 October, Banned Books Week
• 4 - 6 October, 13th Annual Humanities Montana Festival of the Book, Missoula, Montana
• 4 - 7 October, 52nd Annual Western History Association Convention, Denver, Colorado
• 4 - 7 October, Boucheron 2012, Cleveland, Ohio
  includes Sisters in Crime events
• 11 - 12 October, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show, South San Francisco, California
• 12 October, Sisters in Crime 2012 Retreat to the Woods Workshop, Confluence, Pennsylvania
• 12 -14 October, 24th Annual Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, Tennessee
• 12 - 14 October, Capclave, Gaithersburg, Maryland; This literary convention has a program that usually focuses on the short fiction.
• 13 - 15 October, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show, Tacoma, Washington
• 19 - 20, October, High Plains Bookfest at various locations in downtown Billings, Montana
• 19 - 21 October, 44th Annual MileHiCon, Denver, Colorado
• 20 October, Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Author Feast and Trade Show, a cruise aboard the Queen Mary, Long Beach, California
• 19 - 21 October, 18th Annual Women Writing the West Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• 19 - 21 October, 22nd Annual South Carolina Annual Writers Conference, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
• 19 - 21 October, 11th Annual Florida Writers Association Conference, Orlando, Florida
• 27 - 28 October, Texas Book Festival , State Capitol, Austin, Texas
• 1 - 4 November, World Fantasy Convention, Toronto, Ontario Canada