I love to visit bookstores, libraries, schools, and book festivals! Please contact me for any requests, otherwise here’s a listing of my current upcoming events:
Authors David A. Kelly and Heather Lang will at Belmont Books on April 17th,reading from their new books, The Cardinals Caper and Anybody's Game: Kathryn Johnston, the First Girl to Play Little League Baseball Join me and other local authors at Colonie Center's Barnes & Noble for Local Author Day 2018! I'll be speaking at the New England Association of Independent School Librarians on Friday, April 27, 2018. Boston-area Ballpark Mysteries fans can join me for a signing at the Blue Bunny Bookstore in Dedham Mass! From the Blue Bunny event page: David A. Kelly is the author of the Miracle Mud, the Ballpark Mysteries series, the Most Valuable Players series, and other children's books. He'll be at The Blue Bunny signing books from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2. David A. Kelly will be appearing with 75 other authors at the Hudson Children's Book Festival. I'll be signing books again in Portsmouth NH for Children's Day 2018, at G. Willikers Toy Shop! Join me once again in Cooperstown, NY at the National Baseball Hall of Fame for a Ballpark Mysteries book talk and book signing! Come join me and picture book author Heather Lang for a special All-Star Author Event, 6 pm at the Silver Unicorn Books bookstore. Come join me at one of the great bookstores on Cape Cod for a launch event for Ballpark Mysteries Super Special #3! Come join me at the Brewster Bookstore on Cape Cod for a Subway Series Surprise book launch and signing event! Come join me and many other authors at the summer Author Event at the South Portland, Maine Books-a-Million! Come join me for the launch of the latest Ballpark Mysteries Super Special, THE SUBWAY SERIES SURPRISE! New York City Ballpark Mysteries fans -- I'll be at Bank Street Books on Saturday, August 11th at 1pm to launch THE SUBWAY SERIES SURPRISE! Come join me at Hooray for Books in Alexandria Virginia to celebrate the launch of the latest Ballpark Mysteries Super Special, the SUBWAY SERIES SURPRISE! I'll be at Hooray for books at 4pm on Monday, August 27th to read and sign books. HAPPY to be back in Maine for nErDcamp Northern New England, this September! Please come join me and MANY other great authors! More info: http://nerdcampnorthernnewengland.blogspot.com/ Happy to be back in Winchester Mass for Author Fest. Please come visit me and MANY other great authors in the afternoon! For World Read Aloud Day, I'm offering free Skype or Google Hangout visits all day! Sign up at www.dakskype.com. Florida Ballpark Mysteries fans - come join me at Books and Books (event details here) at the Suniland Shops for a Ballpark Mysteries release party! I'll be celebrating the release of my latest Ballpark Mysteries book, THE BALTIMORE BANDIT! I'm honored to be appearing at KidLitCon in Providence, Rhode Island March 22 and 23rd. Many great authors and illustrators are going to be at Kidlitcon (Hotel Providence, Matthewson St, downtown), and both days (March 22 and 23) the public is invited to come meet them free of charge from 4-6 pm. Barrington Books will be on hand to sell books for most of the authors (and will take credit cards), and some will be sold by the authors themselves. Come visit with me and 75 other great authors at the Hudson Children's Book Festival in Hudson, NY. Come join me at the Brewster Bookstore on Cape Cod to talk baseball or have me sign a book! Come join me and MANY MANY other great authors at the Warwick Book Festival in Warwick NY. Happy to be back in Winchester Mass for Author Fest. Please come visit me and MANY other great authors in the afternoon! Join me at the Connecticut CASL/CECA Conference at the Connecticut Conference Center in Hartford. I'll be presenting Monday morning at 9am, but available all day for signings! It's a chapter book mystery event at the Blue Bunny in Dedham! Got a kid who loves mysteries?! We've got a chapter book mystery event with authors David Kelly and Anna Staniszewski. The first book in Anna's Once Upon a Fairy Tale chapter book series, "The Magic MIrror," has been recently released (it's a fairy tale mystery loosely based on "The Snow Queen") and David A. Kelly's newest Ballpark Mystery book, "Ballpark Mysteries Super Special #4: The World Series Kids" was also published this fall. All welcome! Hop on down and meet Anna and David! Some see me and many other authors at the first (annual?) Newton Children's Book Festival! Come see me and many other authors at the Western New York Children's Book Expo on Saturday, November 9, 2019! Come celebrate Small Business Saturday with me at the Blue Bunny Bookstore in Dedham, Ma. It's a GREAT place to pick up holiday gifts! Join me each Wednesday in May, 2020 for a reading from one of my books and some behind-the-scenes info on how I write them! Join me each Wednesday in May, 2020 for a reading from one of my books and some behind-the-scenes info on how I write them! Join me each Wednesday in May, 2020 for a reading from one of my books and some behind-the-scenes info on how I write them! David A. Kelly, author of Miracle Mud, joins us for Storytime to read from the first book in his Ballpark Mysteries chapter book series, The Fenway Foul-Up. This free online event will take place through Zoom. For more information, visit the sign up page. Join me each Wednesday in May, 2020 for a reading from one of my books and some behind-the-scenes info on how I write them! Join author David A. Kelly and other children's book authors for a virtual presentation of their books or writing process. David A. Kelly provides some background on THE COLORADO CURVEBALL Book bites online book festival. On November 14–15, the Boston Book Festival is teaming up with Massachusetts Center for the Book for a bonanza weekend of local literature, featuring authors from across the Commonwealth, in all genres, introducing readers to their latest books in a fast-paced series of bite-sized videos. Join author David Kelly as he discusses his popular children's book which takes place right in Cooperstown, Baseball Mysteries: Christmas in Cooperstown. David will dive in to the story and research that went in to writing about the time that characters Mike and Kate get to sleep over in the Hall of Fame during the Christmas season! The program is free of charge, but registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information to join the virtual program. Once capacity is reached via Zoom connection, participants may join us live on the Hall of Fame's Facebook
Arizona Ballpark Mysteries fans - please come join me at the Barnes & Noble in Chandler AZ to celebrate the launch of the newest Ballpark Mysteries book, THE COLORADO CURVEBALL!
