Category: Events

I&#39ve been meaning to tell you all week that I'm speaking to the Southern California Writers Association this weekend. It’s open to non-members, so if you want to come, please stop by. It’s a lunch! Of course I just looked at the website, and saw their write up of me. I’m cracking up. Look at […]

Doug Fine just sent me his new list of events. So far he has events in Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, and California. I’ll have to hit him up for an interview about his return to the sun. I haven’t read Not Really an Alaskan Mountain Man yet, but I *might* be […]

This is a pretty cool concept. Getting bloggers to write a piece based on a theme, posting it all the same week, and then the panelist choosing winners to get a free book. I was all set to do this yesterday till I started to feel a bit unwell. Today I’m fine, but I’m nearly […]

A Sense of Place [This is a guest post from author Michael Shapiro while he's one tour] It’s energy, excitement, a hum and a buzz: New York is a high point for any performer on a national tour. The city crackles with an electric intensity, and a good event in the center of the universe […]

Time poverty is an interesting concept. And one, in months or years passed, I might’ve qualified for. But we can all thank Rick Steves for backing an event that will help bring us back in the black. “Take Back Your Time is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time […]

This looks good. Two days of quality teaching from quality food and travel writers. The World Is My Oyster: Writing About Adventure, Food, and Travel Featuring: The Myth and Reality of Adventure Travel, with Jeff Greenwald From Tante Marie to Bon Appetit, with Tori Ritchie Capturing Place, with Christopher Hall Secrets of the Senses, with […]

I hope you heard about this somewhere else because it already started! The hip, cool, see and be seen, opportunity to meet that elusive novelist you’ve always had a crush on, literary extravaganza of San Francisco is here! Litquake! My friends Tara Weaver and Kevin Smokler are two of the volunteers that work on this […]

If you’re in the Bay Area, come on over to Get Lost and the Orbit Room tonight for my book tour send off! Here are the party details. At the reading tonight will be Elizabeth Asdorian, Jennica Petersen, Rikke Jorgensen, and hopefully the Chronicle superstar GraceAnn Walden. It starts at 7pm. I won’t be back […]