My Dears, for the new year, I thought I’d try something a little different for the calendar in my News & Events tab…
I’ll be sharing a quotation from a celebrated author, one per week or so, along with the listings of readings, signings, and other author events of my own…and of course a few other significant events in my life…such as my husband’s birthday and my birthday and our dogs’ birthdays – as best as we can imagine, given that they’re all rescues, of course…
You get the idea…
Enjoy! And may we all savor liberal amounts of joy and justice in 2019!
“Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.”
Yes, it is! And is he ten years younger than I am? Yes, he is! And will we never be in the same decade because I was born in October? That is entirely correct; we never will! And is one of my favorite quotations: “We are not our age… We are our energy.”? Oh, YES, it certainly is!
Please join Teri Emory (Second Acts) and me as we read from our novels, sign books, do a Q&A, and chat about our novels, overlapping themes in the two, how we feel about the terms “women’s fiction” and “chick lit” (spoiler alert: not thrilled), and lots more.
I’ll Be In The Window At Book Soup Day!
Saturday, November 18th 12:00 – 2:00 PM
As part of National Novel Writing Month, I’ll be sitting in the main window of fabulous Book Soup facing Sunset Blvd. and writing on my laptop for two hours, starting at noon, to encourage my fellow writers to get that novel they’ve always been wanting to write finished!
Book Soup 8818 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA, 90069
Indies First on Small Business Saturday!
Saturday, November 25th 2:00 – 4:00 PM
I’ll be a guest bookseller from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. as part of an event that brings together authors, readers, and publishers in support of independent bookstores. I’ll be selling copies of “Lala Pettibone’s Act Two,” and also of five of my favorite books: “No Ordinary Time” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, “I Feel Bad About My Neck” by Nora Ephron, “A Prayer for Owen Meany” by John Irving, “Silas Marner” by George Eliot, and “Lucky Jim” by Kingsley Amis.
Book Soup 8818 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA, 90069
