Chronicle Books Tour & Happy Hour
Dec 02, 2026
Chronicle Books Headquarters, 680 Second Street, San Francisco
You’re invited to a Tour of Chronicle Books HQ in San Francisco with Shopping & Socializing
Event Details
Get a tour of the offices of San Francisco publisher, Chronicle Books, from their children's Senior Editor Ariel Richardson and Assistant Editor Olivia Guimarães. Afterward, enjoy a short behind-the-scenes presentation and Q&A with Ariel Richardson, Olivia Guimarães, William Stone, and Ashley Despain. Attendees get a 35% discount in the store in their lobby. And we'll follow it all up with no-host snacks at Merkado down the street from the office, so you can gossip about all the fun things you saw and learned with your peers.
All proceeds to benefit the SCBWI California: San Francisco/South Scholarship Fund. If you register and cannot attend, no refunds will be given.
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2026
Time: 3PM - 6PM (3PM tour, Q&A, and shopping, 5PM happy hour)
Place:
- Chronicle Books Headquarters, 680 Second Street, San Francisco
- Merkado, 130 Townsend Street, San Francisco
Public Transit:
- CalTrain San Francisco Station
- Muni King & 2nd Street Metro Station
If registration is full, you may add your name to the waitlist here.
Faculty Bios
Ariel Richardson, Senior Editor
Ariel Richardson loves to work at the intersection of art and impact. As the picture book lead at Chronicle Books, she has been lucky enough to work with such amazing authors and illustrators as Andy J. Pizza, Grant Snider, Elizabeth Partridge, Dan Nott, Rebecca Stead, Carole Boston Weatherford, Molly Idle, Dinara Mirtalipova, and Marc Martin, among others. Books she’s edited have received accolades, from Invisible Things debuting on the New York Times bestseller list to Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration winning the Robert F. Sibert Medal and Bologna Ragazzi Award. She has worked at three independent bookstores on two coasts, and has a masters degree in Children’s Literature from Simmons University.
Ian Tseng, Assistant Editor, Children’s
Ian Tseng loves to work on books that give life to their readers. For him, that means wholesome, funny, or emotional stories with a beating heart, with characters that he can call his best friends, in worlds that he can daydream about all day long. Along those lines, Ian is most drawn to fiction for all ages (although he can be tempted by ecological/ animal-themed nonfiction, too), and his aesthetic tastes lean towards the cuter side. Ian also remains committed to furthering our diversity movement in children’s literature.
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