Lin Stepp
Author of the upcoming release The Foster Girls
Smoky Mtns
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Smoky Mtns
The Foster Girls BOOK TOUR 2009-2010
SIGNING/EVENT SCHEDULE:
Year 2010 ……..
JANUARY 2010_________________________________________
PRESENTATION/ BOOK SIGNING – Tues, January 26, 10:00 –
12:00 am, Cherokee Hills Garden Club, Reception Room of Sequoyah
Hills Presbyterian Church, 3799 Kenesaw Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37919
Phone Contact: N. Thomas 983-1800
FEBRUARY 2010________________________________________
PRESENTATION / SIGNING - February 27th, Saturday, 9:00 am - 4:00
pm, Rose Glen Literary Festival Literary
Festival [for authors who have written books about or who live in Sevier
County], Sponsored by the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce, to be held
at Walters State Community College, Sevier County Center, 1720 Old Newport
Hwy, Sevierville, TN 37876 (Phone at campus: 865-774-5810) Phone at Chamber
of Commerce: (865) 453-6411
MARCH 2010____________________________________
PRESENTATION/ SIGNING – March 10th, Wed, 2-4 pm.
James White DAR Chapter, meeting for March at the Blount Mansion, 200
W. Hill Avenue, downtown Knoxville, TN 37902
Phone contact: Nancy Montgomery
SIGNING/BOOK DISCUSSION - March 12, 10:00 am, Friday, FIRESIDE
BOOK CLUB, Sevier County Senior Center, 1220 W. Main, Sevierville,
TN 37862
Phone: (865) 453-8080
APRIL 2010________________________________________
AUTHOR'S BOOK LAUNCH - April 10th, Saturday, Open House Event
from 1:00-4:00 pm, Everyone Welcome! At Tuckaleechee Retreat
Center's main Inn - Elk Lodge -at 160 Bear Lodge Drive, Townsend, TN 37882
(Note. Bear Lodge Drive is .4 mi from Tuckaleechee Caverns - for directions
visit website: www.tuckaleecheeinn.com)
Phone: 865-448-6442 (Contact: Ruth White, Innkeeper)
SIGNING/PRESENTATION - April 20, Tues, 11:00 am, LE CONTE BOOK
CLUB, 2700 Plaza Tower, Knoxville, TN 37929
Ph: (865) 523-0405
PRESENTATION/ SIGNING – Thurs, April 22,
10:00 am – 1:00 pm, Greeneville Newcomers Club, General
Morgan Inn Conference Room, 111 N. Main Street, Greeneville, TN 37743
[Newcomers Contact: Lola Kambri at (423) 798-1997]
Phone at General Morgan: (423) 787-1000
BOOK SIGNING - April 22, Thurs, 2:00 - 4:00 pm TUSCULUM COLLEGE
BOOKSTORE, Tusculum College Campus with visitor parking available,
60 Shiloh Road, Greeneville, TN 37745
Ph: (423) 636-7307
SIGNING - Sat April 24th, Hastings Bookstore, 501 N.
Foothills Plaze Drive (behind Foothills Mall), Maryville, TN 37801
Phone: (865) 977-7111
MAY 2010__________________________________________
BOOK SIGNING - Saturday, May 1st, 11:00 - 3:00 pm, APPLE VALLEY
COUNTRY STORE, Main Hwy/ 7138 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Townsend,
TN 37882
Ph: (865) 448-9878
FESTIVAL SIGNING - May 15-16, At-Sun - FINE ARTS FESTIVAL, Ripley's
Plaza and River Road, Ripley';s Aquarium, 88 River Road, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
37738-3261
[Contact: Jack Winstead; personal phone 865-694-0766
DISCUSSION / SIGNING - Tues, May 18th, 10:00 am, E. G. Fisher
Public Library, 1289 Ingleside Avenue, Athens, TN 37303
Phone: (423) 745-7782
JUNE 2010__________________________________________
FESTIVAL SIGNING - June 4-5-6, Fri-Sun, BLUE PLUM FESTIVAL,
East Main Street and East Market Street, downtown Johnson City, TN
[Contact: Dave Pennington, director, 423-737-5818; director@blueplum.org]
Ph: 423-787-5818
BOOK SIGNING - Saturday, June 12th, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, BOOKS-A-MILLION,
2626 E. Stone Drive in the Kingsport Pavilion, Kingsport, TN 37660
Ph: (423) 245-4931
BOOK SIGNING - Saturday, June 26th, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, BARNES &
NOBLE BOOKSTORE, 2100 Hamilton Place Mall Blvd, Chattanooga,
TN 37421
Ph: (423) 893-0186
JULY 2010_______________________________________
BOOK SIGNING - Friday, July 2nd, 5:00 - 8:00 pm, MAST GENERAL
STORE, downtown on First Friday, 402 South Gay Street, Knoxville,
TN 37902
Ph: (865) 546-1336
BOOK SIGNING - Saturday, July 3rd, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, BOOKS-A-MILLION,
Governor's Crossing, 190 Collier Drive, Sevierville, TN 37863
Ph: (865) 908-8994
FESTIVAL SIGNING - July 23-24-24, Fri - Sun - THE GRAINGER COUNTY
TOMATO FESTIVAL, 7480 Rutledge Pike, Rutledge TN 37801
[ Contact: Kathie Self]
Ph: 865-828-5614 - work phone
SEPTEMBER 2010____________________________________
FESTIVAL SIGNING - Sept 24-25, Fri-Sat, FALL HERITAGE FESTIVAL
AND OLD TIMERS DAY, Townsend Visitor Center, 7906 E. Lamar Alexander
Pkwy, Townsend, TN 37882-4028
Ph: 865-448-6134
OCTOBER 2010____________________________________
FESTIVAL SIGNING - Oct 8-9-10, Fr-Sun - TENNESSEE FALL HOMECOMING,
Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Highway, Clinton TN 37716
[Contact: Brenda Tuberville, bookstore; Jane Kirk, festival signing for
author tent]
Ph: 865-494-7680
FESTIVAL SIGNING - Oct 22-23, Sat-Sun - MOUNTAIN MAKINS' FESTIVAL,
442 West 2nd North Street, Morristown, TN 37814
[Contact: Becky Hamm]
Ph: 423-581-4330
Past Year 2009 highlights …..
MAY 2009_____________________________________
May 1, Townsend Spring Festival and Old Timers Day, Townsend, TN
May 9, Lifeway Christian Books, Knoxville, TN
May 16, Osondu Bookellers, Waynesville, NC
JUNE 2009____________________________________
June 6, Jim Gray Gallery in Pigeon Forge, TN
June 13, Author’s Book Launch, The Star Riverboat, Knoxville, TN
June 16, Le Conte Book Club, Knoxville, TN
June 20, Boone Mall plaza, Boone, NC
June 27, Carpe Librum Bookstore, Knoxville,
June 28, Stewart Family Reunion, Athens, TN
JULY 2009_____________________________________
July 4, Apple Valley Country Store, Townsend, TN
July 8, Pigeon Forge Rotary, Pigeon Forge, TN
July 11, Charles Hall Museum, Tellico Plains, TN
July 16, Newport Printing and Book Shop, Newport, TN
July 18, Charlotte’s Books and More, Morristown, TN
July 24 -26, The Grainger County Tomato Festival, Rutledge, TN
July 28, West Knoxville Sertoma Club, Knoxville, TN
AUGUST 2009__________________________________
Aug 1 – Annual Haywood County Book Mania, Waynesville, NC
Aug 4, Live at Five, WBIR-TV (Channel 8), Knoxville, TN
Aug 7, Mast General Store, downtown Knoxville, TN
Aug 8, Barnes & Noble Bookstore on Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN
Aug 14, Sherlock’s Books, Lebanon, TN
Aug 15, Davis-Kidd Booksellers, 2121 Green Hills Mall Nashville, TN
Aug 17, Blount County Library, Presentation, Maryville, TN
Aug 30, Malaprops Bookstore, Asheville, NC
SEPTEMBER 2009_______________________________
Sept 1, St. Mark’s Book Club, Knoxville, TN
Sept 4, Hastings Bookstore, Maryville, TN
Sept 5, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Franklin Terrace, Johnson City,
TN
Sept 10, WUTC 88.1 FM Radio Interview “Around and About”,
Chatt., TN
Sept 12, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Hamilton Place Mall, Chatt., TN
Sept 15, Book Divas Book Club, Carpe Librum Books, Knoxville, TN
Sept 19, Grey Gables Bed and Breakfast Inn, Rugby, TN
Sept 25 - 26, SIBA Book Fair, (Signing – John F. Blair Booth), Greeneville,
SC
OCTOBER 2009________________________________
Oct 10 - Smoky Mountain Park Store, Sevierville, TN
Oct 10 – Moonshine Ridge Store, Pigeon Forge, TN
Oct 14 – Andrew Bogle DAR, Knoxville, TN
Oct 16-17 – Georgia Literary Festival, Rome, GA
Oct 22 – Townsend Book Club, Townsend, TN
Oct 22 – Townsend Library signing, Townsend, TN
Oct 24-25 – Annual Mountain Makins Festival, Morristown, TN
Oct 27 – Sevierville Rotary Club, Sevierville, TN
Oct 31 – Jim Gray Gallery in the Glades, Gatlinburg, TN
NOVEMBER 2009_______________________________
Nov 7, Books-A-Million, Stone Drive, Kingsport, TN
Nov 8, Halls’ Florist and Gifts Open House, Madisonville, TN
Nov 14, Books-A-Million, Cleveland, TN
Nov 21, Barnes & Noble, Opryland Mall, Nashville, TN
DECEMBER 2009_______________________________
Dec 5, Books-A-Million, Sevierville, TN
Dec 12, Borders Bookstore, Deane Hill Center, Knoxville, TN
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