Author of NEVER BACK DOWN
Chris will participate in the Murder in the Magic City conference at the Homewood Public Library outside of Birmingham, AL. His panel, "Sometimes the Past Comes Back to Haunt You," starts at 3:00PM and will include authors Emily Carpenter (Every Single Secret, Until the Day I Die), Angie Gallion (Emergent), and Leigh Perry (A Skeleton in […]
Chris will participate in the 15th annual Murder on the Menu event in Wetumpka, AL, a fundraiser for the Wetumpka Library.
Chris will read, talk, and participate in a Q&A at The Chattahoochee Review's guest author series at Georgia State University's Perimeter College (Dunwoody campus).
Chris will participate in a reading with fellow GSU graduate Soniah Kamal, author of Unmarriageable, at Georgia State University.
Chris will be one of the celebrities and notables at the annual Celebrity Luncheon for the Georgia Symphony Orchestra.
Chris will participate in "Books for a Well-Read Life: Celebrating Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill" at the annual AWP Conference in Portland, OR. Other authors reading at this event include Heather Abel (The Optimistic Decade), Brock Clarke (I Am Calvin Bledsoe), and Joanna Luloff (The Beach at Galle Road). Our moderator will be Lauren Grodstein, […]
Chris will deliver two keynote talks at the Atlanta Writers Conference in Atlanta, GA--"The Road to Publication" and "Write What You Know, and Make Up the Rest." The conference is sponsored by the Atlanta Writers Club.
Chris will appear at A Novel Idea in Dunwoody along with authors Mark Warren, McPatti Langston, Doug Dahlgren, and Jason Sheffield.
Chris will pair with Brian Panowich, the award-winning author of Bull Mountain and Like Lions, for a Write Now program run by the Broadleaf Writers Association at Story on the Square in McDonough. The date has changed to July 13. Details forthcoming.
Chris will moderate the panel "The American Dream: Three Novels" at this year's Decatur Book Festival. On the panel are Jason Allen, author of The East End; Tim Murphy, author of Correspondents; and Snowden Wright, author of American Pop. From the Decatur Book Festival's website: There are many “American” stories. Snowden Wright’s American Pop is an epic saga that moves […]
