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Two weekends ago I launched my book into the world with a tour that began with two events in my “hometown” of LA (I’ve lived here 22 years, which not only qualifies me as a native, but means I’ve been here longer than most of the historical buildings): at Barnes and Noble at the Grove in Hollywood and Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena.  The Vroman’s event couldn’t have gone better – great (and big) crowd, we [...]

I am blessed to have a wonderful group of supportive, loving, successful friends…most of whom don’t read.  For many of my friends, checking the gas gauge is the equivalent of consuming a literary novel, and some of them stumbled into Barnes and Noble and Vroman’s Bookstore in LA for my recent book launch events looking as if they expected to be arrested on fraud charges.  Part of this is doubtless a result of the fact [...]

The launch of a book into the world is sort of like giving birth – there’s lots of screaming and crying and you hope it doesn’t come out ass first.  I was fortunate. My baby weighed in at 263 pages and was born virtually pain-free on June 1st, swaddled in an incredibly flattering People Magazine review that made it, in my eyes, the cutest baby on the block. This is gonna be a breeze, I [...]