The Southern Reach Trilogy Comes to Tampa, Orlando, and Miami

This weekend I'm traveling around Florida, preaching The Southern Reach Trilogy in the place it all began. If you want a primer on the NYT-bestselling series, check out both this conversation I had with top designer Peter Mendelsund on Boing Boing and this great page for the hardcover omnibus version over at FSG. The film rights to the trilogy have been acquired by Scott Rudin Productions and Paramount Pictures, with Alex Garland of Shine and Dredd fame set to direct. Along the way the trilogy made multiple best-of lists and been blurbed by Stephen King, Warren Ellis, and Kelly Link, among others.First, I'm in Tampa at Inkwood Books, 5pm, tomorrow (Friday. Nov. 14), where I'll talk a bit about the series, do a reading, take questions, and sign books. Creative Loafing Tampa has recommended the event to its readers and provided a nice review of the final book in the trilogy.Then, Saturday at 7pm (Nov. 15), you can join me and special guest and rising star Usman Tanveer Malik at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center. Malik will read from a great short story and I'll talk a bit about the Southern Reach, read, and then participate in a Q&A hosted by Functionally Literate. Functionally Literate is a great, relatively new organization in Orlando devoted to hosting lively literary events. They're supported this time around by Bookit, which will provide copies for sale of both the trade paperback Southern Reach novels and the hardcover omnibus.The Orlando Weekly has an interview with me about the Southern Reach and I appeared on the Functionally Literate radio show, which you can listen to here. Malik also appeared on the show, for this episode.Finally, I'm also appearing at the Miami International Book Fair, on Saturday, November 22, at 3pm. Check your program for details, and I'll post more about it next week.