Win me in a bookstore sweepstakes!

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STAR WARS™: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know author Michael KoggeYes, you read that right. I’ve never been a lottery prize before, but such is the case in Dorling Kindersley’s bookstore sweepstakes for Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know! I’ll visit the winning bookstore, anywhere in the country, for a special signing on Star Wars Reads Day, Saturday, October 10 2015.

You can enter your bookstore here or at http://dk-us.polldaddy.com/s/swrdauthoreventsweeps. Best of all, it’s free!

Just be sure to have your entries placed by Friday, September 25 at 11.59pm Eastern. Check out DK’s site for more details, such as my approximate retail value, and the posters and bookmarks I’ll bring for a little trivia contest.

Feature Interview in the Santa Monica Mirror!

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The Santa Monica Mirror newspaper interviewed me on my visit to the local Ocean Park branch of the Santa Monica Library to promote the book Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know. Check out the front page article by Jason Strangis!

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Star Wars Book Tour Weekend Two – Illinois, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Southern California!

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The second weekend for the STAR WARS: ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW book tour continues! If you’re in one of the posted areas, stop by and have a book signed by me and/or my co-authors, Adam Bray and Cole Horton.

Friday 9/11/15 at 7pm
Anderson’s Bookshop La Grange
26 S La Grange Rd
La Grange, IL 60525
Author: Michael Kogge

Saturday 9/12/15 at 1pm
The Learned Owl
204 N Main St
Hudson, OH 44236
Authors: Michael Kogge, Adam Bray, and Cole Horton

Sunday 9/13/15 at 1pm
Barstons Child Play
5536 Connecticut Ave, NW
Washington DC 20015
Authors: Michael Kogge, Adam Bray, and Cole Horton

 

2nd & CharlesSunday 9/13/15 at 1pm
2nd & Charles
2904 Prince William Pkwy
Woodbridge, VA 22192
Authors: Michael Kogge, Adam Bray, and Cole Horton

 

Image result for santa monica public libraryTuesday 9/15/15 at 4pm
Santa Monica Library, Ocean Park Branch
2601 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Author: Michael Kogge

You can also check out the publisher’s website for full book tour schedule!

Star Wars Book Tour – Tempe, AZ Sat 9/5 at 4pm and Denver, CO Sun 9/6 at 2pm!

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The first weekend for the STAR WARS: ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW book tour proceeds with Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona at 4pm on Saturday 9/5/15 and Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, CO on Sunday 9/6/15 at 2pm! Co-author Adam Bray and I will be signing books!

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Saturday 9/5/15 at 4pm
Changing Hands Bookstore

300 West Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85013

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Sunday 9/6/15 at 2pm
Tattered Cover Bookstore
2526 East Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO 80206

Check out the publisher’s website for full book tour schedule, including the next stops on the tour for Friday 9/11/15 to Tuesday 9/15/15!

Star Wars Book Tour – Children’s Book World, Los Angeles – 9/4/15 at 4pm!

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Force Friday continues for the launch of STAR WARS: ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW, with another stop at Children’s Book World in Los Angeles at 4pm on 9/5/15! Come, grab a book, and get it signed by me and co-author Adam Bray!

Children's Book World

CHILDREN’S BOOK WORLD
10580 1/2 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064
(310) 559-BOOK/2665

Force Friday Book Signing and Tour Begins!

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If you’re in San Diego tonight Thursday 9/3/15, my new book tour starts at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, with the Force Friday midnight launch of STAR WARS: ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW, which I co-authored with Adam BrayCole Horton, and Kerrie Dougherty! Richard Woloski and Sarah Woloski of Skywalking Through Neverland will be MC-ing the event for their podcast. The festivities start at 9.30pm with book signing at midnight!

Plus, I’ll be making a very special announcement…

San Diego Comic Con 2015 Signing Schedule

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Comic_Con_Logo_01I’ll be signing for the upcoming book I co-wrote, Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know, at the Dorling Kindersley (DK) Booth #2913-E located in the Star Wars Pavilion at the times below. See you there!
Friday, 7/10/15: 1pm-3pm
Saturday, 7/11/15: 10am-12pm
Sunday 7/12/15: 1pm-3pm

Copies of Empire of the Wolf will also be available at Mysterious Galaxy, booth #1119, and at artist Dan Parsons’s table in Artist Alley, BB-03! Dan and I will sign it!

Comic Crusaders interview about EMPIRE OF THE WOLF!

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The great Frank Mula of the comic news site Comic Crusaders interviewed me recently about the graphic novel I wrote, Empire of the Wolf. Check out the interview here!

They also posted a preview of the book, with 5 pages.