Marlborough Book Festival

 

Local event announcement! Nalini will be attending the Marlborough Book Festival, happening 18-20 July. She'll be taking part in three events, including a writing workshop. Click here for more details and to purchase tickets.

~Ashwini 

Appearances 2025: Australian Romance Readers Event - A Romantic Rendezvous

 

Alt Text: Join us for a Romantic Rendezvous in 2025, with special guest Nalini Singh. More than 100 romance authors across four epic events, with panels, luncheons and a signing. 22 March - Brisbane, 23 March - Sydney, 29 March - Melbourne, 30 March - Perth. Join the FB group: arr2025attendees.

Nalini's coming to Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth next March! Tickets for individual sessions are on sale now. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets.

~Ashwini

RARE Melbourne 2025

 

Alt text: Romance Author & Reader Events. Event: Melbourne. Date: Oct 4 2025. Attending author name: Nalini Singh. RARE25. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf VIC 3006, Australia.

Guess who's coming to RARE Melbourne 2025?! (Tickets will go on sale November 30th at 9pm Melbourne time.)

~Ashwini

Steamy Lit Con 2024

Guess who's coming back to the States! See you at Steamy Lit Con, Aug 2024! Tickets go on sale Oct 21!!

RARE Melbourne 2023

 

News! After a long hiatus, I’m doing an international signing event. I’ll be at RARE Melbourne in April 2023! I’m so looking forward to it!

For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

New Zealand Event - Ocean Light Book Launch

Celebrate the launch of Ocean Light with me at Epsom Community Library in Auckland!

Signed books will be available to buy at a discounted price on the night (you can also bring along your own copies for signing). Gold coin donation is appreciated with proceeds going to Rotary literacy programmes. Light refreshments provided.

Tuesday June 12th 6:30pm 
Epsom Community Library 
195 Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland 1023

Please contact Epsom Library for more information:
Epsomlibrary@aucklandcitycouncil.govt.nz or call 09 890 8671

Comic Con San Diego Schedule

Here are the details of where you can find me at SDCC!!

NOTEBOOK OFFER

My publisher has let me know that if you buy a copy of Allegiance of Honor at the Penguin Random House booth (1514), they will also give you a copy of the 10th anniversary notebook as a Comic Con special! Number of notebooks is limited, so this will be until stocks last. However, after they run out of notebooks, you get to pick a free paperback book from their selection (again, as long as stocks last).

Thursday 21st July
Horton Grand Theatre
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: The Smitten Word: Romancing the Reader

Panel info: Bestselling authors Sylvia Day(Crossfire novels), Christina Lauren (Beautiful series), Nalini Singh (Psy-Changeling series), Chloe Neill (The Devil’s Isle & Chicagoland Vampires series), and Tessa Dare(CastlesEver After series) turn up the heat at SDCC with discussions on the power of romance, the range and voice of the genre, blush-inducing conversation, and have ahilarious battle over movies, TV shows, and Hollywood’s hottest. Moderated by Helen Kay Dimon (Bad Boys Undercover series).

Signing - Autograph Area (Under the Sails): AA 09
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Saturday 23rd July
Booth 1514
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm: Penguin Random House Booth Signing. I will be signing copies of Slave to Sensation.

Click here for the Comic Con Program Schedule

Blog Tour Signup & Google Hangout

Bloggers: if you'd like to participate in the Rock Wedding blog tour, please sign up here!

In other news, I did a Google Hangout this morning (well, morning New Zealand time!). I didn't have a chance to put the link up everywhere as we hit some technical glitches, but here is the video of the hangout.

I tried to choose some questions to answer that I hadn't previously answered, or where I could give an updated answer.

Also, my wifi dropped at one point so the video will cut out. I return at the 6.54 mark. Hope you enjoy watching/listening! If you're reading this on Goodreads and can't see the video, click this link to watch it on Youtube.

p.s. Why do I look so very worried in that captured image? I don't know! 

Berlin iBooks Event @ the Apple Store

I'll be doing an event with Colleen Hoover and Paige Toon at the Berlin Apple Store on April 25th.

Registration details here. See some of you there!

London Event

Bring your own books too. I'll sign everything. No pre-booking or tickets. Just come!!

Google Hangout This Weekend

A quick heads up - I have a Google Hangout this weekend with Read for Pixels: Saturday at 6.00pm Los Angeles Time. Here's the link where you can watch the hangout live. Please rsvp! And see you there. smile emoticon

If you're in other timezones, we've worked out times in several locations to help you out: NYC: 9pm Saturday 19th March - London: 1am Sunday 20th March - Berlin: 2am Sunday 20th March - Sydney: 12pm Sunday 20th March - Auckland: 2pm Sunday 20th March

Also, I've donated a Psy-Changeling six pack plus tote bag for their fundraising (and I'll ship it free worldwide). You can see all the items up for grabs by various authors, at this link.

Friday Book Club & New French Translation

Time to talk books! What are you reading and loving this week?

Also, a shout out to my French readers. The French edition of Heart of Obsidian is now out. I hope you love it!

I'm off to the Whanganui Literary Festival (New Zealand) this weekend. Hope to see some of you there!

I hope you all have a weekend filled with lots of great reads!

Auckland Writers Festival

A heads-up that I'll be participating in the Auckland Writers Festival this year. My session is:

Friday May 15th

7pm-8pm

Lower NZI Room, Aotea Centre,
50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland, 

New Zealand 

Ticket info and list of all programming: Auckland Writers Festival Website

I hope to see some of you there!

Bastien, Book Rec & Melbourne Signing on Tuesday

I'm so excited that Bastien's novella is out next week!! It was so much fun going to back to the cats with this story - they're so tactile and often so sinfully wicked (or maybe that's just Bastien ;-) ). 

Also, I want to give you a heads up that the ebook for Sonali Dev's "A Bollywood Affair" (link to excerpt) has had a bit of a price drop  - I know many of you wanted to try the book when I first recommended it, but felt it was too expensive, so I wanted to let you know. It really is a wonderful book and I absolutely ADORED it. I'm adding the trailer below for you to check out.

Also, if you're in Melbourne, Australia, don't forget I have a book signing there on Tuesday with the awesome Maya Banks! Details:

7pm* November 25th
Dymocks Melbourne
235 Collins Street
 
See some of you there!! And yes, you'll be able to buy Night Shift on the night!
*If you entered the ARRA Contest and won a special ticket to the Q&A prior to the signing, that starts at 6pm.

Here's Sonali's trailer for her book. :)

Auckland Event Giveaway

Winners: Arielle and Riley. Entered via Facebook. Congratulations!
 
Kiwis! (Contest alert - read down) A heads up that I'll be doing a chat and signing this Wednesday, November 5th, at 6.30pm at Remuera Library, Auckland. There is a $5 ticket to support the library, but I've been told there'll be nibbles, plus I've organized an awesome door prize, so it should be a great night.   The bookseller will have ARCHANGEL'S SHADOWS there, as well as backlist books!

I'm going to give away two double passes to the event - to enter, just leave a comment (and make sure you can attend on the night if you win). The contest will run across my Facebook page and blog until 7pm Monday, so all the entries will go into one big draw. 

The two winners will be announced Monday night at 8.30pm, so please make sure you check back to see if you won. One entry per person. Feel free to share this post with other readers you think might be keen to come.

To RSVP to the event, please phone Hilary Arrowsmith on 520 2532, or email her: hilary.arrowsmithATaucklandcouncil.govt.nz

Full details of the event at this link.

Look forward to seeing some of you in a few days!

Brisbane & Chocolate

Amazing event at Ipswich Library tonight. Thanks to everyone who came and asked such great questions. A special thanks to the awesome staff and booksellers! :-)

My next event for the Brisbane Writers Festval is a Worldbuilding workshop on Friday (which I believe is sold out), but I also have two panels on Sunday, so grab a ticket if you're in Brisbane and come join us!

See the photo above? It's because my Brisbane hotel is next to a CHOCOLATE CAFE & SHOP. Yes, all kinds of chocolate. And macarons. Looking at this photo, you might think I've been very restrained by only buying two (raspberry and chocolate), but you see, I plan to taste test two every few hours. Have to go through all the flavors (including peanut butter!).

I've just sipped the hot chocolate. It's so thick it's like drinking melted chocolate. Nobody contact me - I will be in a chocolate coma for the foreseeable future.

Updates and Morocco: Mosaics

Sorry for disappearing on you everyone! I'm back in NZ now, and getting myself sorted out after the trip - my suitcases have exploded in the living room. I clearly need a put-away-luggage-stuff fairy. =)

Onto the updates:

While on book tour, I promised I'd talk about who the next Psy-Changeling book will be about, in July - I was planning to do it next week, but I think I should be able to put something together tomorrow. It'll just be info about the hero at this stage, not an excerpt for the new book, as I'm in the very early stages of writing it.

Also, the next newsletter will go out July 9th, so if you haven't subscribed, you can do so on the sidebar of the blog, or on the front page of the website (top right). The Welcome newsletter you'll receive automatically once you click the link sent to your email to confirm your subscription, contains the first two short stories I sent out in the newsletter: Poker Night (Psy-Changeling), & Knives and Sheaths (Guild Hunter).

In 2014 news, I'll be attending the RT Convention in New Orleans, May 14th-18th. I will also be at the LoveLetter Convention in Berlin, May 24-25th.

And last but not least, some more photos from the trip! There are some astonishingly beautiful mosaics in the buildings in Morocco. Here are a few photos focusing on mosaics/pottery, all taken with permission.

 Two of the artisans in the pottery/mosaic workshop we visited. At this stage, all the pottery is "raw", unglazed.

 

 Specialist artisans chipping pieces of pottery into tiny specific shapes that will eventually be used to form mosaics.

 

 An artist hand-painting one of the pieces of pottery.

A few of the finished painted pottery pieces - some include metallic embellishments.

Examples of finished mosaic work in the showroom attached to the workshop.

Friday Book Club...

...coming to you from London, where I just had a fabulous signing! So loved meeting so many of you.

Now, onto the book club! What are you reading and loving this week?

Seattle, Germany & Australia/NZ

Posting from a lovely cafe in Seattle, where I'm having lunch. It's near the water, and I've already been for a little walk to admire the view. I'm looking forward to seeing some of you tonight at the signing: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM PDT - UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE - 4326 University Way NE (Tel: 206-634-3400).

Also, remember, you can still order a signed copy if you can't make it to the store - as long as the order comes in before the event, I can sign it!

~

The German edition of Heart of Obsidian, Geheimnisvolle Berührung, is now out!!

The Australia/New Zealand edition is also now out!

Thanks for being so patient waiting for your releases. I hope you all enjoy the book! And remember, please keep spoiler comments on the Spoiler Thread for the time being. :-)

After Seattle, it's Houston then London! 

Chicago signing

A fantastic signing at Andersons's Bookshop, Naperville tonight. Thank you to everyone who came and to the wonderful staff!! Thanks also to Jane of Dear Author, who interviewed Nalini on stage. We had a great time!

Nalini signed extra copies of Heart of Obsidian while at the store and they'll ship anywhere within the US, so if you'd like a copy, give them a call (630-355-2665), or contact them through their website.

Tomorrow we'll be in Seattle - see you there!