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:
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!