October 25-26 at the San Jose Convention Center in California. My panel is on Saturday, the 25th, at 1:45. I’m delighted to share the panel with two other witchcraft authors, moderated by my good friend Kemble Scott.
The panel I’ll be on is this one:
WHICH WITCH IS WHICH: Covens and Other Cliques
Brunonia Barry, THE LACE READER
Kathleen Kent, THE HERETIC’S DAUGHTER
Erika Mailman, THE WITCH’S TRINITY
For more info on the expo, click here.
1:30 p.m., Saturday, June 21 at Booksmart, 80 E. 2nd Street in Morgan Hill. A slideshow with witchcraft woodcuts and images from medieval European sources and I’ll read a brief passage from The Witch’s Trinity. 778-6467.
I will be part of the Sacramento Library Foundation’s annual event, this year with the theme Food for Thought. Saturday, March 1 at 5 p.m. $175 ticket includes gourmet dinner, the chance to meet many authors, and the ability to help the library foundation fill its coffers for a good cause. Held at the Hyatt Regency, 1209 L Street in downtown Sacramento. For info and/or reservations, visit www.saclibfoundation.org or call 916-264-2711.
Join me for a unique and fun event called the “Read It and Eat” luncheon at a really wonderful indie bookstore in Pleasanton. That’s at 11:30 on Nov. 30, at Towne Center Books, 555 Main St. in Pleasanton. For more info (and reservations are required), please call 925-846-8826.
Join me for a unique and fun event called the “Read It and Eat” luncheon at a really wonderful indie bookstore in Pleasanton. That’s at 11:30 on Nov. 30, at Towne Center Books, 555 Main St. in Pleasanton. For more info (and reservations are required), please call 925-846-8826.
Oct. 8: Litquake panel, Foundation Center in San Francisco at 5:30 p.m. (312 Sutter St.) Registration required.
Monday, October 8, 5:30-7:30 pm
The Journey to Being Discovered:
First-Time Authors Reveal All
Foundation Center, 312 Sutter St., Second Floor Conference Room. FREE
Learn from a panel of newly published, first time writers at this panel discussion, a co-production with The Foundation Center. Three novelists and one nonfiction author will talk about all that was involved in making their dream of writing a reality. We’ll cover finding the time and discipline to write regularly, identifying potential publishers, getting noticed by literary professionals, dealing with rejection, and publicizing your book. In Litquake festival fashion, the writers will also be reading from their newly published works. Bring your questions. Space is limited and advance registration required. Please visit http://foundationcenter.org/sanfrancisco/wksjourneyOct_8.html to register.
Participants include: Anita Amirrezvani, Bridget Kinsella, Erika Mailman, and Kemble Scott
* Sept. 25 (the launch): Cody’s Books, Berkeley, at 7 p.m. (1730 Fourth St.)
* Sept. 26: M is for Mystery, San Mateo, at 7 p.m. (86 E. 3rd Ave.)
* Oct. 4: A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland , at 7 p.m. (6120 LaSalle Ave.)
* Oct. 13: Book Passage, Corte Madera, at 4 p.m. (51 Tamal Vista Blvd.)
* Oct. 17: Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, at 7 p.m. (155 Fell St., at Van Ness)
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006
$8 members of Oakland Heritage Alliance
$10 non-members (free if you become a member)
Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave.
Join me, Annalee Allen and William Wong for a lecture sponsored by Oakland Heritage Alliance. All of us have published neighborhood histories through Arcadia Publishing, and we’ll discuss our process of researching and writing.
Chapel of the Chimes is an architectural marvel designed by Oakland’s famous female architect Julia Morgan. It’s not so much a chapel as it is a columbarium. Beautifully morbid, this space is, with ash containers shaped as books, placed upon a bookshelf.
Annalee’s book is Oakland: A Postcard History and William’s book is Oakland’s Chinatown. Mine is Oakland Hills.
6:30-8:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 3, 2006
at the Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street (@Van Ness), San Francisco
$7-25 sliding scale
I will be reading from Woman of Ill Fame along with five other published authors from the same writers group.
Michael Chorost‘s memoir Rebuilt won the 2006 PEN award. Erika Mailman‘s Woman of Ill Fame tells a tale of a Gold Rush prostitute. Joe Quirk‘s Sperm Is from Men, Eggs Are from Women explains why men and women are different. Kemble Scott‘s Soma peeks at the sexual underbelly of SF. Melodie Bowsher‘s My Lost and Found Life chronicles the redemption of an embezzler’s daughter. David Sterry (author of Chicken) has a new memoir forthcoming: Master of Ceremonies, A True story of Love, Murder, and Chippendales.
We’re charging a small fee because this is a fundraiser for the Meridian Gallery, the art gallery that has given us free meeting space for a decade. They run a wonderful afterschool arts program for at-risk teens and we absolutely love them. Their building, however, is GOING CONDO and they’re being evicted, so we’re raising money to help them with the big move.
2-3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 7
part of the Litquake Festival
Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library
100 Larkin St., San Francisco
I am so excited to read at Litquake; it’s the most fabulous week-long literary extravaganza EVER! I’ll be reading as part of an event called Off the Richter Scale, during the That’s History portion. In a one-hour segment, they have scheduled six writers… we are asked to each read for SIX MINUTES ONLY. I love it! Perfect for my short attention span. Off the Richter Scale continues all day; check out the schedule here.
I’ll be reading from Woman of Ill Fame, the novel about a Gold Rush prostitute appearing from Heyday Books in February 2007.