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To celebrate the release of her new graphic novel DRAMA today, Raina Telgemeier is running a contest with prizes of original art and more. The follow-up to her incredibly popular SMILE, DRAMA concerns middle schoolers caught up in the drama of a school play. With full color art and a storyline full of emotional twists and turns, we’re guessing it’s going to be another hit. (Here are the NY Times review and the Publishers Weekly review.)

More in the link. Also, here are the DRAMA tour dates:

Decatur Book Festival
Decatur, GA
Sunday, Sept 2
Children’s Stage, 3:45pm
Signing to follow!

Graphic Novel Night!
with Doug TenNapel & James Burks
The Reading Bug
785 Laurel St
San Carlos, CA
Friday, September 7
6pm

Graphix Author Signing!
with Doug TenNapel & James Burks
Green Apple Books
506 Clement St
San Francisco, CA
Saturday, September 8
3pm

Graphix Author Meet & Greet and signing!
with Doug TenNapel & James Burks!
Towne Center Books
555 Main Street
Pleasanton, CA
7-8pm

Graphix Author Signing!
with Doug TenNapel & James Burks
A Great Good Place
for Books
6120 LaSalle Avenue
Oakland, CA
Sunday, September 9
11:30am

Graphix Authors Event & Signing!
with Doug TenNapel & James Burks
Books, Inc. Laurel Village
3515 California St
San Francisco, CA
Monday, September 10
7:00pm

Brooklyn Comics & More
DRAMA signing!
493 7th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Weds. September 19
3-5pm

Big Planet Vienna
DRAMA signing!
426 Maple Ave. East
Vienna, VA
Sat. September 22
11am-1pm

Big Planet College Park
DRAMA signing!
7315 Baltimore Ave.
College Park, MD 20740
Sat. September 22
3pm-5pm

National Book Festival
Washington, DC
Sun. September 23

Children’s Book World
DRAMA signing!
17 Haverford Station Rd Haverford, PA
Monday, September 24
4pm

Left Bank Books
DRAMA signing!
399 N. Euclid Ave.
Saint Louis, MO
Monday, October 1
7pm

Minneapolis Events
TBA
October 3,4

Heartland Fall Forum
Minneapolis, MN
October 4

Vancouver, BC Events TBA
October 11

Tweens Read Festival
Bobby Shaw Middle School
1201 Houston Avenue
Pasadena, TX
October 20

Portland, ME Events TBA
October 27

Bergen Street Comics
DRAMA signing!
470 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY
Saturday, Nov. 3
7pm

Miami Book Fair
Miami, FL
November 11-18

NCTE
Las Vegas, NV
November 19-20