Author Event

New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University 2024

Event date: 

Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 5:00pm to Saturday, March 16, 2024 - 5:30pm

Event address: 

Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118

Come join us at The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University 2024 where Octavia Books and Baldwin & Co. have teamed up to handle book sales in the main tent.  Find the impressive schedule of book signings posted at https://bookfest.tulane.edu/book-sales-and-signings and the schedule of author events at https://bookfest.tulane.edu/schedule.

Be sure to see the list of books we we have on site below. You can also order them from us here if you don't make it through the book tent.

THE LOST VAN GOGH - Jonathan Santlofer in conversation with Tom Piazza

Event date: 

Friday, January 12, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Come join us for an evening with award-winning author Jonathan Santlofer celebrating the release of his new novel, THE LOST VAN GOGH.  New Orleans author Tom Piazza will join him in conversation.

"Ingeniously plotted, irresistibly readable, brimming with inside information about the high-stakes art world of theft, forgery, and murder, Jonathan Santlofer’s The Lost Van Gogh tracks the history of a missing self-portrait by Van Gogh against the background of the notorious Nazi campaign against "degenerate art.” Also included are brilliantly rendered drawings by the author, who is as accomplished an artist as he is a writer of suspense thrillers." — Joyce Carol Oates


From the real-life artist, legal counterfeiter and acclaimed author Jonathan Santlofer comes THE LOST VAN GOGH, an action-packed mystery of the underground art world.

For years, there have been whispers that, before his death, Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait. Curators and art historians have savored this rumor, hoping it could illuminate some of the troubled artist's many secrets, but even they have to concede that the missing painting is likely . . .

THE LITTLE BOOK and BIG BOOK OF KING CAKE at Sunday Crescent City Farmers Market

Event date: 

Sunday, January 14, 2024 - 8:00am to 12:00pm

Event address: 

New Orleans City Park Tad Gormley Stadium Marconi Drive @ Navarre Avenue
New Orleans, LA

Please join Octavia Books at the Sunday Crescent City Farmers Market at City Park with Matt Haines signing his two books THE LITTLE BOOK OF KING CAKE and THE BIG BOOK OF KING CAKE. The signing will be paired with fresh offerings provided by from  the farmers market king cake baking vendors.

"I once ate more than eighty king cakes in a single Carnival," author Matt Haines proudly remembers, demonstrating his dedication to this delicious Mardi Gras tradition. "So you can imagine how amazed I was to learn there has never been a coffee table book dedicated to king cakes!"

Howard Fishman - TO ANYONE WHO EVER ASKS: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

Event date: 

Thursday, January 18, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Come join us for a presentation and signing featuring New Yorker writer and former New Orleans resident Howard Fishman who spent twelve years excavating the life and pursuing the story of vanished musical pioneer Connie Converse. The result is TO ANYONE WHO EVER ASKS: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse, recently chosen by Pitchfork as one of the Top 10 Music Books of 2023. Part biography, part detective story, and part inward journey, the book investigates the pioneering work of this lost songwriter, singer, scholar, artist, poet, and activist, revealing at last a major figure in American culture, overlooked until now. Fishman will appear in conversation with Stuart Hall, host of WWOZ radio's The 4th Dimension.

BIG BOOK OF KING CAKE and THE LITTLE BOOK OF KING CAKE at Tuesday Crescent City Farmers Market

Event date: 

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 8:00am to 12:00pm

Event address: 

Crescent City Farmers Market, Tulane University Uptown Square - 200 Broadway by the levee

Please join Octavia Books at the Tuesday Crescent City Farmers Market at Uptown Square with Matt Haines signing his two books THE LITTLE BOOK OF KING CAKE and THE BIG BOOK OF KING CAKE. The signing will be paired with fresh offerings provided by from  the farmers market king cake baking vendors.

"I once ate more than eighty king cakes in a single Carnival," author Matt Haines proudly remembers, demonstrating his dedication to this delicious Mardi Gras tradition. "So you can imagine how amazed I was to learn there has never been a coffee table book dedicated to king cakes!"

Errol Laborde - WHEN REX MET ZULU and Other Chronicles of the New Orleans Experience

Event date: 

Thursday, January 25, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Please join us for a special evening with New Orleans Magazine Editor Errol Laborde for a presentation and signing celebrating the launch of his new book When Rex Met Zulu and Other Chronicles of the New Orleans Experience. Included in the program, Peggy Scott Laborde and Morgan Packard will give readings from the book. And, enjoy some king cake and refreshments.


In chapters ranging from food and drink to history and war, this book shares real-life stories that only New Orleans could produce. Errol Laborde founded Lundi Gras and the now-beloved tradition of Zulu meeting Rex at Spanish Plaza before a loud, excited crowd on the eve of Fat Tuesday. He tells that origin story here, along with other vignettes adapted from his national-award-winning Streetcar column in New Orleans magazine.

Star Wars:The High Republic: ESCAPE FROM VALO - Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong in conversation with Claudia Gray

Event date: 

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Come join us for the launch of Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong's new Star Wars: The High Republic book, ESCAPE FROM VALO, when they appear in conversation with Claudia Gray. A book signing will follow - and there will be king cake. You may also participate virtually on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/1069758767693212. In-person or virtually, please show your support by pre-ordering signed copies listed below.

Lisa McMann and Matt McMann - THE FORGOTTEN FIVE and MONSTERIOUS

Event date: 

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 6:00pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Please join us for a special book party and signing with authors Lisa McMann and Matt McMann celebrating their two new middle-grades books at Octavia Books as part of the national tour for FORGOTTEN FIVE #4: Dangerous Allies and MONSTERIOUS #4: The Beast of Skull Rock. Highly recommended for ages 8-12, or 3rd-7th grades.


Dangerous Allies (The Forgotten Five, Book 4)

X-Men meets Spy Kids in the fourth installment of The Forgotten Five middle-grade fantasy/adventure series by Lisa McMann, New York Times bestselling author of THE UNWANTEDS.

JT Blatty - SNAPSHOTS SENT HOME

Event date: 

Saturday, February 24, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Event address: 

Octavia Books - 513 Octavia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115

Please join us with documentary photojournalist and author JT Blatty on the 2nd anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine for a presentation and booksigning celebrating the launch of her new book, SNAPSHOTS SENT HOME: From Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine—A Memoir.

Like many post-9/11 combat veterans, JT Blatty struggled to regain her sense of purpose in the years returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Then, in 2018, a chance encounter brought her to Ukraine as a documentary photojournalist, drawn in by the familiarity of war and those who serve in wars. She discovered Ukraine’s volunteer soldiers, a tribe of revolutionaries, ordinary men and women, most without military training, who in 2014 self-deployed to the War in the Donbas in eastern Ukraine.

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