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In the News before 2007
2-November-2006 - Bestsellers
(Locus Online) - Dragon's Fire and Dragonsblood are represented on the
Locus Online bestseller list for the second month in a row now: Dragon's
Fire dropped from place 2 to 6 on the hardcover list, and Dragonsblood
dropped from place 2 to 5 on the paperback list.
29-October-2006 - Inductees
honored for works, legacies (deseretnews.com)
29-September-2006 - Bestsellers
(Locus Online) - Dragon's Fire comes in second on the Locus Online Hardcover Bestseller list this month, joined by Dragonsblood in second
place on the Locus Online Paperback Bestseller list.
17-September-2006 - What the fic? (Lexington Herald) - another article about fan-fiction as a
comment on yesterday's article; this one states erroneously that Anne McCaffrey goes after fan-fiction sites to get them shut down (editors
note: Anne relaxed her fan-fiction rules significantly in 2004 to allow
online fan-fiction.)
16-September-2006 - Rewriting
the Rules of Fiction (Wall Street Journal) - an article about fan-fiction; includes a mention that Meg Cabot, author of "The
Princess Diaries", started her writing career as a Dragonriders of Pern fan-fiction writer
24-August-2006 - Sci-Fi
Geeks Trek to WorldCon (Wired News) - Anne will be there, too!
21-August-2006 - 24
Careers Launched at the San Diego Air & Space Museum (Market Wire) - about the Writers of the Future Contest
14-August-2006 - 'L.
Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest' Mentors New Talent in Speculative Fiction (Market Wire)
13-August-2006 - Elvis
is in the building... the bookstore, that is (Bradenton Herald) - mentions the new Acorna book
25-July-2006 - Bestsellers
(Locus Online) - Dragon's Fire is on place 16 on New York Times Hardcover
list and place 124 on USA Today's list.
19-July-2006 - 22nd
Annual Writers of the Future Awards to Be Held at San Diego Air And Space
Museum on August 18, 2006 (Market Wire)
1-July-2006 - Emerald
Eye edited by Frank Ludlow and Roelof Goudriaan (SF Crowsnest) - an
anthology of Irish writers containing a story by Anne McCaffrey,
"Velvet Fields", 1973
6-June-2006 - New
faces at the Science Fiction Hall of Fame (Journal Newspapers)
25-May-2006 - New Dragonriders of Pern Movie
Deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
17-March-2006 -
Hall of Fame inducts Lucas, McCaffrey, Herbert and Freas (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc.)
Past Events before 2007
26-December-2006 - "Maelstrom:Book Two of the Twins of Petaybee" by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough released in the
U.S., along with the paperback version of "Changelings: Book One of the Twins of Petaybee"
(Del Rey)
24-November-2006 - 26-November-2006 - Todd McCaffrey will be attending Loscon33
in Los Angeles, CA.
17-November-2006 - 19-November-2006 - Todd McCaffrey will be attending OryCon28
in Portland, OR. - update: Todd cancelled his attendance at OryCon (see
below).
1-September-2006 - 4-September-2006 - Todd McCaffrey attends DragonCon in Atlanta, GA.
1-September-2006 - "Changelings" by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth
Ann Scarborough released in the U.K. (Bantam Press)
23-August-2006 - 27-August-2006 - Anne and Todd McCaffrey attend WorldCon in Los Angeles, CA.
22-August-2006 - Book Signing by Anne and Todd McCaffrey at Borders, Northridge, 7:00 PM (Northridge, CA)
21-August-2006 - Book Signing by Anne and Todd McCaffrey at Barnes & Noble, Encino, 7:30 PM (Encino, CA)
19-August-2006 - Book Signing by Anne and Todd McCaffrey at Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, 2:00 PM (San Diego, CA)
18-August-2006 - 22nd Annual Writers of the Future Awards
Ceremony in San Diego, CA (Air And Space Museum)
1-August-2006 - "Second Wave (Acorna's Children)" by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough released in the U.S.;
the new Pern book "Dragon's Fire" by Anne and Todd McCaffrey released in the UK.
20-July-2006 - 23-July-2006 - Todd McCaffrey attends Comic-Con
in San Diego, CA.
11-July-2006 -
The new Pern book "Dragon's Fire" by Anne and Todd McCaffrey
released in the U.S.
1-July-2006 - 4-July-2006 - Todd McCaffrey attends Conzilla
- Westercon 59 in San Diego, CA.
1-July-2006 - Paperback version of "First Warning (Acorna's
Children)" by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough released
in the U.S.
27-June-2006 - The paperback version of Dragonsblood is released
17-June-2006 -
Anne McCaffrey inducted into the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle, WA.
- MoM report by
Becky
1-April-2006 -
Anne McCaffrey celebrates her 80th Birthday with her family in Ireland.
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