Dis­cussing The Bones of Bir­ka with par­tic­i­pants in the STEM Book Fest at the Bakken Muse­um, Min­neapo­lis, coor­di­nat­ing with The Think­ing Spot bookstore

Fel­low author and friend Joyce Sid­man donned the war­rior’s hel­met and shield at the STEM Book Fest at the Bakken Museum

For my Bones of Bir­ka research, the extra­or­di­nary oppor­tu­ni­ty to see the bones and grave goods of BJ581 up close, in per­son at the Swedish His­to­ry Museum.

Inter­pre­ta­tion of the per­son buried in Grave Bj581, dis­played at the Bir­ka muse­um, fea­tured in The Bones of Birka

With authors Dana Mid­dle­ton, Tra­cy Bar­rett, Kamil­la Benko, Jenn Bish­op, and Nik­ki Grimes at the South­east Young Adult Book Fest in Murfrees­boro, TN.

Cyn­thia Sur­risi book sign­ing for The May­pop Kid­nap­ping at Mala­prop’s Book­store in Asheville, North Carolina

Rue for the win!