Dispatches from the City of Angels
I'm a writer and humorist living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my novel LOSING CLEMENTINE out March 6 from William Morrow. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
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"Taint what a horse looks like, it’s what a horse be." - A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
"Trying to take it easy after you've finished a manuscript is like trying to take it easy when you have a grease fire on a kitchen stove." - Jan Burke
"Put on your big girl panties, and deal with it." - Mom
"How you do anything is how you do everything."
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Festival of Books
If you're going to be anywhere remotely near Southern California this weekend, it'll be more than worth your while to swing by the UCLA campus for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Whatever your biblio-fetish, they can tickle it. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, current events, mystery, romance, children's literature, cookbooks, pop-up books, books about books. If you can think of it, they've got a lecture, demonstration or event about it. And it is all absolutely, positively free.
You can check out the details online. Advanced "tickets" are required for the indoor lectures. Tickets are free and available until Thursday. Think of it as making a reservation. (Although, there are "stand-by" lines for those without tickets.) All lectures, speakers, concerts, demonstrations, etc. held on the outdoor stages are open to anyone, no ticket required.
There will be hundreds of authors and "celebrity authors" there to speak, chat and sign books, including Mitch Albom, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julie Andrews, David Baldacci, Jan Burke, T.C. Boyle, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, James Ellroy, Tim Gunn, Lee Iacocca, Walter Mosley, Frank McCourt, Ralph Nader, Gore Vidal...
...and ME!
I'll be signing copies of the oh-so-deviously-delicious "LANDMARKED FOR MURDER," an anthology of Los Angeles crime fiction. Each story revolves around a famous Southern California landmark, making for one devilish travelogue.
Come see me Saturday the 28th from 2 - 4 p.m. at the Sisters in Crime booth just in front of Royce Hall.
It'll be a murderously good time!
You can check out the details online. Advanced "tickets" are required for the indoor lectures. Tickets are free and available until Thursday. Think of it as making a reservation. (Although, there are "stand-by" lines for those without tickets.) All lectures, speakers, concerts, demonstrations, etc. held on the outdoor stages are open to anyone, no ticket required.
There will be hundreds of authors and "celebrity authors" there to speak, chat and sign books, including Mitch Albom, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julie Andrews, David Baldacci, Jan Burke, T.C. Boyle, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, James Ellroy, Tim Gunn, Lee Iacocca, Walter Mosley, Frank McCourt, Ralph Nader, Gore Vidal...
...and ME!
I'll be signing copies of the oh-so-deviously-delicious "LANDMARKED FOR MURDER," an anthology of Los Angeles crime fiction. Each story revolves around a famous Southern California landmark, making for one devilish travelogue.
Come see me Saturday the 28th from 2 - 4 p.m. at the Sisters in Crime booth just in front of Royce Hall.
It'll be a murderously good time!
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