Sold Out, But Wait! Last Chance for Stephen King Tickets

for Fall for the Book to run out of tickets to see Stephen King in person in September. Didn't move fast enough? Don't sweat it too much, you've got a few more opportunities to reserve your seat at the 2011 Mason Awards.

• George Mason University students can grab a ticket or two at the FFTB booth (Johnson Center Plaza) during Welcome Week, Aug. 25-Sept. 6.
• Cinema Arts Theatre patrons will get a chance to snag a pair of tickets at the screening of "The Shawshank Redemption" (a Stephen King novella) on Sept. 15. Only 10 tickets (in pairs) will be distributed. Times to be announced. 
• Panel audience members will throw down in raffle form for the last 10 tickets (again, given in pairs) at the Mystery Writers of American event on Sept. 23. Listen to novelists Donna Andrews ("The Real Macaw"), G.M. Malliet ("Wicked Autumn"), Alan Orloff ("Killer Routine") and Marcia Talley ("A Quiet Death") talk mystery fiction starting at 5:30 p.m. in Harris Theater at Mason's Fairfax campus. There's no fee for joining the raffle.

Those are the last opportunities to secure advance tickets. You can always leave it to fate and show up at the Center for the Arts at GMU just before King's appearance (7:15 p.m., Sept. 23) in hopes of grabbing an unclaimed seat.

Notes to those who reserved their tickets:

• No email confirmations went out. 
• Tickets will arrive in the mail.
• If you win a King book-signing ticket (via random drawing), it will arrive with your event tickets in the mail. 

Info provided by Fall for the Book. Check out the festival's full schedule here.