The Southern Reach Trilogy at the Decatur Book Festival: This Sunday!

(Sneak peek at the slideshow for Sunday's event)"I'm loving the Southern Reach trilogy...Creepy and fascinating." - Stephen King"A masterpiece." - The Guardian, on AcceptanceI'll be appearing Sunday, August 31, 1:15 at the Decatur Recreation Center Gym, with my wife, Ann, for a Decatur Book Festival event. Afterwards, I'll be signing books. Acceptance *will* be available there, two days early.Touching on ecological themes and set in a transformed South, the Southern Reach trilogy chronicles the attempts of a secret government agency to discovery the mystery behind Area X, a pristine wilderness suddenly closed off from the rest of civilization by a strange event 30 years before. Award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer will interview Jeff VanderMeer after a brief reading from the third novel in the series, Acceptance. A Southern Reach slideshow will feature the real-life wilderness places that inspired the trilogy and show off the amazing variety of cover designs for the foreign language editions. (As featured in Entertainment Weekly).