Upcoming Events
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)
Western Writers of America Conference Panel Discussion "She Saved the Bison!"
Amarillo, TX
Embassy Suites, Downtown
June 19, 2025
Speaker, Day of Women
Women's Conference & Luncheon
Borger Chamber of Commerce
613 N. Main St.
Borger, TX
TBA
July 24, 2025
Caprock Writers and Illustrators' Guest Speaker, "Memoir Writing"
Lubbock, TX
Time TBA
August 9, 2025
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 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)
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)
Retreat Readers' Book Club (Private Event)
Via Zoom
Dripping Springs, TX
November 18, 2024
Time TBA
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)
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 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)
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
Boerne Bookshop
Boerne, TX
Saturday, Oct. 19 2024
4 P.M. - 6 P. M. (CST)
Women Writing the West Conference
Hilton Garden Inn
Denver, Colorado
October 10-12, 2024
First Monday Book Club (Private Event)
El Paso, Texas
October 7, 2024
5:30 P.M. (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
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)
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
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)
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)
Rock Star Book Tour! (Part Two)
Watch for reviews on blogs, Instagram & TicTock
September 16-20, 2024
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)
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
Rock Star Book Tour! (Part One)
Watch for reviews on blogs, Instagram & TicTock
September 9-13, 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
The Memoir Channel on YouTube with Host Niki Smart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKE6-BnD7Q&t=1055s
August 30, 2024
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:
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
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
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
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
El Paso Women’s Club Luncheon Guest Speaker
1400 N. Mesa St.
El Paso, TX
Time TBA
April 16, 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!
