Book Tour for the hardback release of On Desperate Ground:
Wednesday, September 26 – Santa Fe
Book Launch at Violet Crown Theater, in association with Collected Works Bookstore

Wednesday, October 3 – Philadelphia
Free Library of Philadelphia
Thursday, October 4 and Friday, October 5 – Charleston
Charleston Book Festival
Saturday, October 6 – Washington, DC
Politics & Prose Bookstore

Monday, October 8 – Memphis
Novel Bookstore
Tuesday, October 9 – Oxford, MS
Square Books

Wednesday, October 10 – Jackson, MS
Lemuria Books

Thursday, October 11 – St. Louis
St. Louis County Public Library

Monday, October 15 – La Jolla, CA
Warwick’s

Tuesday, October 16 – San Francisco
Book Passage
Wednesday, October 17 – Salt Lake City
The King’s English Bookshop
Thursday, October 18 – Denver
Tattered Cover
Saturday, October 20 – Golden, CO
Rocky Mountain Literary Festival
Thursday, October 25 – Wichita
Watermark Books
Friday, October 26 – Tulsa
Magic City Books
Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28 – Austin
Texas Book Festival

Monday, October 29 – Dallas
Authors Live!, at Highland Park United Methodist Church

Thursday, November 1 – Albuquerque
KiMo Theater, in association with Bookworks of Albuquerque

Sunday, November 11 – Colorado Springs
Colorado College, Veterans Day
Wednesday, November 14 – Kansas City
Uhlig Distinguished Speakers Series

With NYT bestselling historian Candice Millard
Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18 – Miami
Miami Book Fair

With John Grisham and David Grann at the 2018 Miami Book Fair
Monday November 26 — Santa Cruz
Bookshop Santa Cruz
Wednesday, November 28 — Taos
OpCit Books
Thursday, November 29 — Santa Fe
Collected Works Bookstore
Saturday December 1 — El Paso
Literarity Book Shop
Tuesday, December 4 — Los Alamos
Fuller Lodge
Monday December 17 — Lexington, VA
The Bookery
Tuesday, December 18 — Richmond
Chop Suey Books
Hampton Selected 2015 Miller Distinguished Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute
Author Hampton Sides, a best-selling narrative historian, has been named a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute for 2015. He will be in residence at the Institute for four months this fall, and he plans to drop in at other times during the year. Read more at the Santa Fe Institute website.
Scenes from my recent book tour – 52 stops from August-December 2014!

From my night at BookPeople, Austin TX.

Signing at TurnRow Books, in Greenwood, MS

Preparing for carpal tunnel syndrome, Parnassus Books, Nashville TN

With author Ann Patchett at Parnassus Books in Nashville, TN

At the gravesite of Captain George De Long, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York, NY

Hampton and fellow Santa Fe author George RR Martin