HarperCollins debuts Authonomy, an open slush pile where readers rate aspiring writers.
UCLA Extension Writers’ Program’s annual Writers Faire is Sunday. Offerings include twenty-four mini-workshops and panels in creative writing and screenwriting hosted by Writers’ Program instructors. The fair is free; parking is $9.
Mister September: A Q&A valentine to San Francisco tech guru/storyteller/Fray [...]
Stories in Author profile:
Browsing: Online slush pile, UCLA faire & Fray notes
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September 2nd, 2008 |
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Author interview: novelist Janelle Brown
LAist has a Q&A today with Janelle Brown, who talks about her new novel, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, her quintessential LA reading list, and her move from San Francisco to SoCal.
Q: What is the biggest misconception about Los Angeles?
A: There’s so many old hackneyed chestnuts – “oh, the terrible traffic, [...]
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June 10th, 2008 |
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‘Some of the truest fiction around’
Critical Mass posts an interesting Q&A with Daniel Olivas as part of its Small Press Spotlight Series. Daniel, an author and attorney, is the editor of the new Latinos in Lotusland anthology. He talks with Rigoberto González about the history of Latinos in California and the selection of the pieces for the collection.
Here’s a [...]
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May 19th, 2008 |
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Her new inspiration
The LAT’s Scott Timberg profiles Marianne Wiggins as she releases a new novel, The Shadow Catcher (out Tuesday from Simon & Schuster), and plots her next projects. “I’m just head over heels committed to writing a series of California novels.”
“I was in London 16 years,” she said, “and never got a good story out [...]
Talking points
“When you’re in your life, I think you don’t have a sense of how weird it is.” That’s Glasgow Phillips talking to the LAT’s Scott Timberg about his “very LA memoir” The Royal Nonesuch: Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up?. Just out this week.
California’s literary legislators
are profiled here by Capitol Weekly. Their works include memoir, a backpacker’s primer, histories, and a novel that made a 73 ranking on Amazon and earns its author hate mail from Beijing.
Sunday shorts
• The LAT’s Maria Russo on Jane Smiley’s new novel, Ten Days in the Hills: “It’s billed as a Hollywood novel, but it’s just as much a novel about sex, and it’s a novel that feels burrowed into Los Angeles’ landscape and real estate.”
• LA Weekly’s Tom Christie on Michele Matheson, an actress-turned-novelist who found [...]
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February 11th, 2007 |
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A thriller as told in a Bombay barroom
Vikram Chandra divides his time between India and Berkeley, where he teaches writing. Even Chandra finds its surreal that HarperCollins has paid him $1 million for his new novel, Sacred Games, a mammoth (898 pages) thriller hyped as an Indian version of The Godfather. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
In India, the book has spent [...]
`Literary Paprika’
The Jewish Journal profiles Mark Sarvas, the LA screenwriter-turned-litblogger who hosts The Elegant Variation. “His mother tells an apocryphal story that as a 1-year-old, he ate the frontispiece page of “The Complete Works of Shakespeare,” predestining him for life as a litt
The San Francisco Chronicle profiles
California poet and Iraq war veteran Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet “a tough and eloquent volume” that won the Northern California Book Award for poetry, a PEN Center USA ‘Best in the West’ Literary Award in Poetry and a fist-full of other awards.
Writing the poems in “Here, Bullet” gave Turner a means of [...]
Browsing: Online slush pile, UCLA faire & Fray notes
Posted by Donna Wares,
September 2nd, 2008 |
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File under: Author profile, Book biz, Bookbloggery, Events and festivals, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Workshops/seminars/retreats
File under: Author profile, Book biz, Bookbloggery, Events and festivals, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Workshops/seminars/retreats
Author interview: novelist Janelle Brown
LAist has a Q&A today with Janelle Brown, who talks about her new novel, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, her quintessential LA reading list, and her move from San Francisco to SoCal.
Q: What is the biggest misconception about Los Angeles?
A: There’s so many old hackneyed chestnuts – “oh, the terrible traffic, [...]
Posted by Donna Wares,
June 10th, 2008 |
Permalink
File under: Author profile, Fiction, Los Angeles, New Release 2008
File under: Author profile, Fiction, Los Angeles, New Release 2008
‘Some of the truest fiction around’
Critical Mass posts an interesting Q&A with Daniel Olivas as part of its Small Press Spotlight Series. Daniel, an author and attorney, is the editor of the new Latinos in Lotusland anthology. He talks with Rigoberto González about the history of Latinos in California and the selection of the pieces for the collection.
Here’s a [...]
Posted by Donna Wares,
May 19th, 2008 |
Permalink
File under: Anthology, Author profile, Culture, New Release 2008
File under: Anthology, Author profile, Culture, New Release 2008
Her new inspiration
The LAT’s Scott Timberg profiles Marianne Wiggins as she releases a new novel, The Shadow Catcher (out Tuesday from Simon & Schuster), and plots her next projects. “I’m just head over heels committed to writing a series of California novels.”
“I was in London 16 years,” she said, “and never got a good story out [...]
Talking points
“When you’re in your life, I think you don’t have a sense of how weird it is.” That’s Glasgow Phillips talking to the LAT’s Scott Timberg about his “very LA memoir” The Royal Nonesuch: Or, What Will I Do When I Grow Up?. Just out this week.
California’s literary legislators
are profiled here by Capitol Weekly. Their works include memoir, a backpacker’s primer, histories, and a novel that made a 73 ranking on Amazon and earns its author hate mail from Beijing.
Sunday shorts
• The LAT’s Maria Russo on Jane Smiley’s new novel, Ten Days in the Hills: “It’s billed as a Hollywood novel, but it’s just as much a novel about sex, and it’s a novel that feels burrowed into Los Angeles’ landscape and real estate.”
• LA Weekly’s Tom Christie on Michele Matheson, an actress-turned-novelist who found [...]
Posted by Donna Wares,
February 11th, 2007 |
Permalink
File under: Author profile, Booksellers, Children's books, Libraries, Nonfiction
File under: Author profile, Booksellers, Children's books, Libraries, Nonfiction
A thriller as told in a Bombay barroom
Vikram Chandra divides his time between India and Berkeley, where he teaches writing. Even Chandra finds its surreal that HarperCollins has paid him $1 million for his new novel, Sacred Games, a mammoth (898 pages) thriller hyped as an Indian version of The Godfather. From the San Francisco Chronicle:
In India, the book has spent [...]
`Literary Paprika’
The Jewish Journal profiles Mark Sarvas, the LA screenwriter-turned-litblogger who hosts The Elegant Variation. “His mother tells an apocryphal story that as a 1-year-old, he ate the frontispiece page of “The Complete Works of Shakespeare,” predestining him for life as a litt
The San Francisco Chronicle profiles
California poet and Iraq war veteran Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet “a tough and eloquent volume” that won the Northern California Book Award for poetry, a PEN Center USA ‘Best in the West’ Literary Award in Poetry and a fist-full of other awards.
Writing the poems in “Here, Bullet” gave Turner a means of [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
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July briefs: censorship, fires, new fiction and a b-day
No room for Freedom in Perry, Indiana. A veteran high school teacher in Perry, Indiana has been suspended without pay for teaching The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. The book by Long Beach, California teacher/author Erin Gruwell and her students [...]
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