2012

• March 2&3 - Rockdale Tejas Festival, details TBA

2011

• January 18, 2011, Pink Ladies of Hunt Memorial Hospital
• Sept. 24 - Bois d’arc Bash Literary Tour
• Oct. 5 - Mineola Public Library
• Oct. 13 - “An Evening with Jim Ainsworth @ Sulphur Springs Public Library 630 to 8 pm
• Nov. 5/6 - Winnsboro Arts Festival
• Nov 13 - Literary Festival at Delta County Public Library, Sunday

2010

• Jan. 21, 630 PM-- Texas Bookstore/Hopkins Co. Genealogical Society
  212 Main Sulphur Springs, Tx
• Jan. 27, 10:3 AM Awesome Authors, Greenville Texas
• March 16, -- New Boston Genealogical Society.  New Boston.
• March 29,  Noon Paris Rotary Club, Paris Texas
• August 12,--  Northeast Texas Writers Organization, (NETWO) in Mt Pleasant at Applebee's @ 5:30.
• Sept. 13, 6:30 PM Red River Genealogical, Clarksville, Tx.
• Sept. 25, East Texas Bookfest in Tyler

2009

• Feb. 16, Monday, Delta Kappa Gamma--Sulphur Springs. 
• Feb. 24, Memoir Class at Texas A&M-Commerce Hall of Languages, 5 PM
• March 6, Gold Blazer Banquet on campus of A&M-Commerce
• March 10,  Northeast Texas Retired Teachers Assoc.
• April 24, Distinguished Alumni Banquet on campus of Texas A&M- Commerce, 6 PM.
               (Jim is being honored.)
• May 8, Onion Creek Literary and Arts Club, Onion Creek, Tx, Noon
• Sept. 25, East Texas Book Festival  @ Omelas Activity Center in Tyler Texas
• Oct. 8, Northeast Texas Writers Organization in Mt Pleasant at Western Sizzlin
• Oct. 10,    Texas A&M-Commerce Alumni Authors--on Campus at Commerce, Texas
• Oct 23-24,  Chisholm Trail Book Festival @ the Fairgrounds Duncan OK.
• Nov. 10, Silver Leo Writers Group at A&M-Commerce Alumni Center in Commerce, Texas
• December 10, Thursday, from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. (Jim will speak a few minutes about Home Light Burning at 7:30 p. m.),  A&M-Commerce Alumni Center – 1706 Stonewall – Commerce, Texas 75428 More....

2008

• April 17, Thursday, Noon--Rotary Club in Sulphur Springs
• May 15, Thursday--at 6PM Booksigning and program for Hopkins Co. Genealogical Society--Sulphur Springs, Texas
• May 17, Saturday at 10AM  Tarrant Memorial Group outside Sulphur Springs, Texas
• June 1, Mt. Zion Memorial Day Coming Home
• Oct. 23, Thursday, Greenville Daybreak Rotary Club at the Landmark, 7 AM
• November 11, Delta Kappa Gamma/Ben E. Keith Hospitality Room/Commerce, Tx,  5 PM

2007 January 19-21--girlfriend weekend in Jefferson Texas. Pulpwood Queens Bookclubs. February 7 -- Tuesday Littera Book Club in Tyler. March 10, Saturday, from six to ten PM, Release Party for Rivers Ebb, Cowhill Express, 1212 Main Commerce, Texas. All are invited. March 8, Thursday, 6:30 pm, Sulphur Springs Public Library, 611 Davis Street North March 27 -28, all day--Celina ISD, Celina, Tx April 17--Colonial Lodge--Greenville, Texas, 2:30 April 26 all day--Celina ISD, Celina, Tx April 14 -- Saturday, Wolfe City Book Club--Webb Hill Country Club. April 17 -- Colonial Lodge Greenville, Tx 2 pm April 18 Morning-  Starbucks, Paris, Texas April 18 Afternoon--Hastings Bookstore, Paris, Texas April 19th--Morning--Cozy Cappuccino Paris, Texas April 19--Afternoon--Paris Coffee--Paris, Tx. April 25--Awesome Authors--YMCA--Greenville, Tx April 26,  all Day -- Celina ISD April 27 & 28 -- Northeast Texas Writers Conference May 24 --Thursday, Daybreak Rotary Club/Glenda's in Downtown Greenville/7 AM May 29--Tumbleweed Smith syndicated radio show broadcast on KSST and to be scheduled in other markets  Consult www.TumbleweedSmith.com for other dates. May 31--Daybreak Rotary Greenville, Texas @ 7 AM June 6--Commerce Rotary, Commerce Texas  @ noon. June 6--Billy Bob's Texas Fort Worth @ 6PM with Annie Golightly and Michael Johnson July 9--Red River Genealogical Society in Clarksville, Tx., 7 PM July 28--KSST National Day of the Cowboy Celebration in Sulphur Springs @ M&F Western Products and Circle E all day. Sept. 7-8 --Landon Weekend Literary Conference/Granbury, Tex. sponsored by Tarleton State Univ. September 12-- Sulphur Springs Book Club, 6 PM, San Remo's Restaurant in Sulphur Springs, TX Sept 19--Mayo College at Texas A&M-Commerce October 2--Kingsland Library November 17 at noon; keynote at Troup, Texas Library--Annual Fundraiser and Silent Auction December 8 --Wolfe City Book Club--Webb Hill Country Club

Past Appearances: Pulpwood Queens, Marshall, Texas Pulpwood Queens Book Club, Jefferson, Texas  Tye Preston Library, Canyon Lake Texas Pottsboro Library, Pottsboro, Texas Western Writers of America Conference--Cody, Wyoming Texas Writers League Conference  Austin Texas  Lubbock Cowboy Symposium East Tx. Historical Assoc. in Nacogdoches Keynote Chautauqua Preservation Society in Waxahachie  ticketed event Texas Library System in Tyler @940AM NE Texas Library System in Garland @115 PM Books Alive Book Festival sponsored by Pulpwood Queens Book Clubs, Founder Kathy Patrick --Jefferson, Texas Mineola High School Library in Mineola 6-8PM Sabine Neches Writers Guild, Jasper, Texas. Denton Writers League, N. Branch of Denton Library Paris Rotary Club, noon to 1:00, Ballroom /Paris Junior College Campus Golden Triangle Writers Guild, "The Write Side of Texas,"  Holiday Inn, Beaumont, Tx. Book Release Party for Rivers Crossing University Dames Luncheon at Texas A&M University-Commerce--Heritage Room of MSC William Owens Centennial Celebration Campus of Texas A&M University-Commerce MSC  Evening with Authors Jim Ainsworth, Bill Thompson, and Fred Tarpley  Cowhill Express Coffee Shop Downtown Commerce, Texas 5pm to 7PM Mt Zion Fellowship Hall Cumby, Texas; Mt. Zion Ladies Rivers of Words Writers Conference in Jasper Texas Awesome Authors @ Greenville YMCA Mayo College on campus of Texas A&M Commerce North Central Texas Chapter of Press Women of Texas, Greenville, Texas Northeast Texas Retired Teachers, First United Methodist Church, Commerce, Texas Psychology Club, Anderson Home, Scatterbranch DFW airport Literacy and Library Program, Irving Texas Plano Book Festival Plano Texas Quitman Kiwanis @ noon Texas Pulpwood Queens Book Club Altrusa Club, Greenville Texas 1st Last Dinner Dance and Book signing with A&M Commerce and old East Texas State University Alumni