Upcoming Events

The Memoir Channel on YouTube with Host Niki Smart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKE6-BnD7Q&t=1055s

August 30, 2024

Jennifer Beckstrand's Ten-Minute Book Club Podcast
https://www.facebook.com/groups/550930369229378

September 4, 2024

Jennifer Beckstrand's Ten-Minute
Book Club Podcast

https://www.facebook.com/
groups/550930369229378

September 4, 2024

Rock Star Book Tour! (Part One)

Watch for reviews on blogs, Instagram & TicTock

September 9-13, 2024

Rendezvous With A Writer

(https://www.outwestshop.com/pages/rendezvous-with-a-writer)

Podcast on LA Talk Radio (Video and Audio)

September 12, 2024, 6:00-6:50pm (PST)

https://www.latalkradio.com/content/rendezvous-writer

Note: Rendezvous With A Writer audio and video airs LIVE every Thursday from 6:00-6:50pm (PST), 7:00-7:50pm (MT), 8:00-8:50pm (CST), 9:00-9:50pm (EST) on their website https://www.latalkradio.com/content/rendezvous-writer - on their Facebook and YouTube pages

Book Launch! The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Patriots' Hall

231 Patriots Hall Blvd, Dripping Springs, TX

Sunday, September 15, 2024

3:00 - 4:30 P.M. (CST)

Rock Star Book Tour! (Part Two)

Watch for reviews on blogs, Instagram & TicTock

September 16-20, 2024

PRIVATE BOOK RECEPTION for The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Wimberley, Texas

September 19, 2024

5:00 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Author Presentation and Book Signing, The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Pecantown Books and Brews

212 South Camp Street

Sequin, TX

Saturday, September 21, 2024

1:00 - 3:00 P.M. (CST)

New Books Network History Channel Interview with Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen"

Podcast on New Books Network (Audio), Streaming

Recorded September 24, 2024

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-pink-dress#

Author Presentation and Book Signing, The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Margin Notes Booksellers

7460 Cimarron Market Ave

Bldg. 2 Ste 300

El Paso, TX

Saturday, September 28, 2024

2:00 PM to 4:00 PM (MT)

A Bookish Moment, Interview with Sarah E. Burr and J. C. Kenney

https://www.saraheburr.com/itsbookishtime/

3:30-4:30 (CST), October 3, 2024

Streaming on https://youtube.com/live/leMyTceMl2s

First Monday Book Club (Private Event)

El Paso, Texas

October 7, 2024

5:30 P.M. (MT)

Women Writing the West Conference

Hilton Garden Inn

Denver, Colorado

October 10-12, 2024

Author Presentation and Book Signing, The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Boerne Bookshop

Boerne, TX

Saturday, Oct. 19 2024

4 P.M. - 6 P. M. (CST)

At The Hitching Post with Jane Little Botkin, Host Gary Zupancic

Wimberley Valley Radio, KWVH 94.3

From Wimberley, TX

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

1 PM – 2 PM (CST)

11:00 A. M. (CST)

Listen here: The-Hitching-Post-2024-10-22.mp4 - Google Drive

 

Author Presentation and Book Signing, The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

The Twig Bookstore

306 Pearl Pkwy, Unit 106, San Antonio, TX

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

5:30 - 7:00 P.M. (CST)

Author Presentation and Book Signing, The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Wimberley Village Library

400 FM-2325, Wimberley, TX 78676

October 25, 2024

11:00 A. M. (CST)

Author Book Signing, The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen
Barnes and Noble Book Store

The Fountains at Farrah

8889 Gateway Blvd. West Suite 120, El Paso, TX

November 16, 2024

2 PM (MT)

Retreat Readers' Book Club (Private Event)

Via Zoom

Dripping Springs, TX

November 18, 2024

Time TBA

Author Booth and Book Signing

Christmas at Old Fort Concho

Fort Concho National Historical Landmark

630 South Oakes

San Angelo, TX

December 6-8, 2024

Friday 3 PM – 8 PM; Saturday 9 AM to 7 PM; Sunday 11 AM to 4 PM (CST)

Author Book Signing, The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

COAS Books 

317 N. Main Street

Las Cruces, NM

December 14, 2024

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (MT)

Caprock Writers and Illustrators' Guest Speaker, "Memoir Writing"

Lubbock, TX

Time TBA

March 8, 2025

Panelist, "They Dared to Speak Up"

Tucson Book Festival 

University of Arizona Campus

Student Union Bldg, Santa Rita Room

March 16, 2025

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

IN ADDITION

Look for my booth, "Hottie Historians", on March 15 & 16!

 

El Paso Women’s Club Luncheon Guest Speaker

1400 N. Mesa St.
El Paso, TX

Time TBA

April 16, 2025

Author Talk and Book Signing, The Pink Dress, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Thomas Branigan Library

200 E. Picacho Ave.

Las Cruces, NM

April 29, 2025

1-3 PM (MT)

Lubbock Book Festival (Literary Lubbock)

Overton Hotel & Conference Center

2322 Mac Davis Lane

Lubbock, TX

Saturday, August 23, 2025

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Past Events

Author Presentations, Rosenberry Lecture Series

History Colorado Center

1310 Bannock Street, Denver CO

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

1:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M. (Two Different Topics)

Author Presentation via Zoom: "It All Began in Missoula! Frank Little, Father of the Western Free Speech Fight!"

Missoula Public Library

455 E Main, Missoula, MT 59802

Saturday, September 16, 2023

2:00 PM

Panel Presentation "When Is It Purple Prose?"

Western Writers of America Conference

Holiday Inn, Downtown

505 North Fifth Street, Grand Rapids, South Dakota

Friday, June 23, 2023

1:30 PM

Author Presentation, Mary Ann Goodnight

Cowboy Days

New Mexico Farm & ranch Heritage Museum

4100 Dripping Springs Road, Las Cruces, NM

March 2-3, 2024 

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM/

Saturday Presentation @ 2 PM

Sunday Presentation @ 11 AM

Author Presentation

Ruidoso Public Library

Saturday, May 13, 2023

11:00 A. M.

107 Kansas City Road, Ruidoso, NM

First Monday Book Club

May 8, 2023

TBA

El Paso, TX

Capitan Library "Meet the Author" and Book signing

Sunday, December 11, 2022

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

102 E. 2nd Street

Capitan, NM

Women Writing the West (WWW) Annual Conference

October 20-22, 2022

(I will receive the Willa Finalist Award on the 22nd!)

Sheraton Oklahoma City Downtown

Oklahoma City, OK

Lubbock Book Festival

October 15 & 16, 2022

2:30 - 4:00 pm Oct. 15 Panel "Connecting with Readers: Promoting Books on a Budget"

Plus Book Signing and Sales both days

[George & Helen Mahon Downtown Public Library]
[1306 9th St.]
[Lubbock, TX]

Author Presentation on Mary Ann Dyer Goodnight

Sponsored by the Key Corner Chapter DAR

McIver's Grant Public Library, Community Room

Dyersburg, TN

4 PM, Tuesday, October 3, 2023

"Connecting with Readers: Promoting Books on a Budget" Panel Discussion

2022 Western Writers of America Conference

June 23, 2022

10:30 AM

Holiday Inn

100 5th Street South
Great Falls, MT

Specific Day and Time TBA

"Goodnight Barn's Chuck Wagon Rendezvous"

Pueblo Heritage Museum

May 20-21, 2022, All Day

Book Signing

Free Event

State Hwy 96Hwy 96

West of Pueblo, CO

Colorado Humanities History & Biography Colorado Book Awards Finalists Read

May 13, 2022

Book Bar

4280 Tennyson St

Denver, Colorado

Watch the readings here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC8ENZ0QQps

Austin Film Society

May 4, 2022 

I'll introduce the film and stay for discussion

AFS Cinema

6406 N Interstate 35 Ste 3100

Austin, TX​

"[Screening of The Wobblies, Inductee to the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress]"

"Unruly Women of Western History" Panel Discussion

Tucson Festival of Books

10:00-11:00 AM, March 13, 2022

Free Event

Integrated Learning Center Room 130

University of Arizona Campus

"Radicalism in the Mountain West: Jane Street's Housemaid Rebellion"

Denver Posse of Westerners

6:00 PM MST, February 23, 2022

Denver Bookbinding Company

1401 W. 47th Ave,

Denver, CO

"Patriotism, Peace, and a Story of Two Janes"

Aurora History Museum

May 18, 2022

15051 Alameda Pkwy

Aurora CO, 80012

 

Rowdy and Raucous Side of Routt County and Colorado History, Tread of Pioneers History Happy Hour

"How Colorado’s National Guard Spoiled Denver’s Kitchens"

November 2, 2021, 5:30 PM Mountain Time

Free Event

Howelsen Hill’s Olympian Hall – 845 Howelsen Parkway, Steamboat Springs, CO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlRnEcBqnU

Museum Book Club (discussion), Center for Colorado Women's History, Denver, CO

The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver

October 3, 2021

Free Event

 

"Patriotism, Peace, and a Story of Two Janes"

Sarah Pound DAR Chapter

Dripping Springs, TX

September 19, 2021

 

Six-gun Justice Podcast with Paul Bishop and Jane Little Botkin

July 28, 2021

You can listen here
https://www.sixgunjustice.com/2021/07/six-gun-justice-conversationsjane-botkin.html

 

Six-gun Justice Podcast Speed Listen with Paul Bishop and Jane Little Botkin

July 26, 2021

You can listen here

https://www.sixgunjustice.com/2021/07/six-gun-justice-speed-listenjane-street.html

Who Owns History?

Nonfiction Focus
Western Writers of America Conference Panel
June 17, 2021, 3:00-4:00 PM MT
Embassy Suites, Loveland, Colorado

"How Colorado’s National Guard Spoiled

Denver’s Kitchens, 1903-1917"

Golden Historical Museum, Golden, Colorado
June 14, 2021 6:30 PM Mountain Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xW4awVay48

Colorado Women Lecture Series History Colorado
April 17, 2021, Saturday, 1:30 PM Mountain Time.
View the presentation at

[Jane Street Activist or Revolutionist, feat. Jane Little Botkin - Bing video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHFHYF5VPVE

Tales from the Reuther Library
Interview with Jane Little Botkin

April 15, 2021
You can listen here
https://reutherlib.blubrry.net/2021/04/15/jane-street-and-the-rebel-maids-of-denver/

New Books Network
Interview with Jane Little Botkin

April 2021
You can listen here

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-girl-who-dared-to-defy

Local Author Spotlight (virtual)
Dripping Springs Community Library

March 2, 2021, 6-7 PM,
View at https://youtu.be/P50IZodMjLk

Guest Speaker at the Austin-Southwest Rotary Club.
September 12, 2019, Noon
3815 South Lamar, Austin, TX

Indie Beacon Radio Show, Spotlighting Author Jane Little Botkin
February 24, 2021, 7 PM CDT, Listen at

https://www.spreaker.com/user/indiebeacon/indie-beacon-show-with-jane-little-botki

“Historical Writing/Research” Panel Participant
Montana Book Festival
September 29, 2017, 2:30 PM
Fact & Fiction Book Store, Missoula, MT

2020 Western Writers of America Conference
June 17-21, 2020
Rapid City, South Dakota

Presentation and Book Signing, Frank Little and the IWW
Montana Book Festival
September 29, 2017, 1:00 PM
Fact & Fiction Book Store, Missoula, MT

Guest Speaker at the Adkins DAR Chapter Meeting "Women of the Alamo"
April 14, 2020, Noon
Adkins, TX

Women Writing the West Conference
October 10-13, 2019
San Antonio, TX

Women Writing the West Conference
October 15-18, 2020
Colorado Springs, CO

Guest Speaker and Book Signing, Frank Little and the IWW
September 28, 2017, 6:30 PM
Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=o5dUdOyIde0

2019 Western Writers of American Conference and Awards
June 19-22, 2019
Tucson, AZ

Book Reading and Signing, Frank Little and the IWW
September 21, 2017, 6:00 PM
Dripping Springs Community Library
Dripping Springs, TX

Presentation - “Family Secrets”: When Family History Becomes a Compelling Story
October 17, 2018, Noon
Dripping Springs Women’s Club
Terrace Club, Dripping Springs, TX

Eulogy, Frank Little Centennial Memorial
August 1, 2017
Missoula IWW
Mountain View Cemetery, Butte, MT

Presentation and Discussion, Frank Little and the IWW
October 19, 2018, Noon
Western Heritage Center, Billings, MT

Special Guest, Frank Little Memorial Celebration featuring Mark Ross
August 1, 2017, 6:30 PM
Carpenters’ Union Hall, Butte, MT

High Plains Book Awards Banquet
October 20, 2018, 7:30 P. M.
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

About Frank Little and the IWW
July 31, 2017, 5:00 PM
Butte America Radio KBMF Live Broadcast
Butte, MT

Texas Assn of Authors Book Awards and Dinner
July 28, 2018, 7:00 PM
Las Colinas Marriott Hotel, Las Colinas, TX

Book Reading and Signing, Frank Little and the IWW
July 31, 2017, 6:30 PM
Butte-Silver Bow Archives and Butte Labor History Center
Clark Chateau, Butte, MT

2018 Western Writers of America Conference and Awards Ceremony
June 20-23, 2018
Western Writers of America
Doubletree Hotel, Billings, MT

Remembering the Bisbee Deportation, 100 Years Later
July 12, 12017
KJZZ NPR Broadcast
https://theshow.kjzz.org/content/503494/remembering-bisbee-deportation-100-years-later

Oklahoma Book Awards
April 7, 2018, 6:30 PM
Skirvin Hilton Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK

Presentation and Discussion: Frank Little and the Bisbee Deportation
July 8, 2017, 2:00 PM
Bisbee Deportation Centennial Committee
Bisbee Mining and History Museum, Bisbee, AZ

“Labor, Bisbee, and the Southwest” Panel Participant
Tucson Festival of Books
March 10, 2018, 4:00 PM
University of Arizona Campus, Tucson, AZ

Presentation and Discussion: Frank Little and the IWW
June 24, 2017, 3:00 P. M.
Alice Historical Society, Alice Schoolhouse, 271 Silver Creek Rd., Idaho Springs, CO

Book Reading and Signing, Frank Little and the IWW
January 10, 2018, Noon
Wimberley Village Library, Wimberley, TX

Special Guest, DEAR Texas Radio Show
May 4, 2017
To listen
https://soundcloud.com/deartexasradio/dear-texas-radio-show-with-jane-little-botkin

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