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Sep.12.2010
Just got the cover of Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic, the new anthology edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and myself, due out in October from Drollerie Press. I absolutely love this cover! And the contents are pretty amazing too. :-DThis has been a really fun anthology to work on and...
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Aug.12.2010
Announcing the release of my contemporary Dracula novel Dragon's Ark later this year from Ambler House Publishing in POD and e-book formats!
The contented residents of a sleepy High Sierra paradise know him only as an elderly reclusive landowner who lives alone in a faraway canyon...
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Aug.12.2010
I had to share the good news!: Garrison Keillor selected one of my poems, "The Nose On Your Face," for his Writer's Almanac for August 28, 2010. The poem is from my new collection, Zephyr.
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
Zephyr was just published this summer. Two Berkeley ...
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Aug.02.2010
My book Forever L.A: A Field Guide to Los Angeles Cemeteries and Their Residents came out a couple months ago but I've been so busy writing and photographing the sequel, Forever New York that I haven't had much time to promote it. Forever L. A. is in a guidebook format which makes it easy to tote...
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Jul.19.2010
Relationships with our coworkers are a vital part of life. Considering that we spend a third of our day in the workplace, they have to be. No wonder we build friendships with workmates. That's great. Unfortunately, the flipside of personal relationships in the workplace is that they can turn sour--...
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Jul.02.2010
Fresh copies of my new novel You Killed Wesley Payne (Little, Brown-feb. 2011) arrived in large cardboard boxed a few weeks ago and have subequently been sent to to various marketing arms and review outlets. Called "An unholy union of Grease, The Road Warrior, and Heathers, only back when...
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Jun.19.2010
Robert Crawford, Midge Goldberg, me, William Gleed (farm manager)at the entrance to the barnI made it to New Hampshire and back. Drove up yesterday, checked into my hotel, had something to eat, got ready for the reading, then headed out to the farm. I had high expectations for this reading, but I'...
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Jun.03.2010
Last summer on my sabbatical, my 10 and 13 year old daughters and I kept daily journals of our trip and our experiences as we traveled through four countries in Europe. When we put them all together, it made for a very interesting read, so we published it as a fundraiser. All of the proceeds we...
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Apr.26.2010
I opened the box with trepidation. I could feel my heart pounding so fast in my chest that my head was spinning and my vision blurred. My blood pressure must have shot up at the instant I started cutting the tape. Nervous? You bet. I wasn’t this scared when I had my first date as a widow. I really...
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Apr.19.2010
An e-mail from the folks at Lightning Source, a slight delay but the proof of my novel So Dark the Night should be printed up tomorrow. Will it be pristine, absolutely glitch-free, the book ready for production? Or will there be another delay as we try to figure out how to get those flippin'...
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