Isabel Allende’s memoir is just out: The Sums of Our Days… novelist Tobias Wolff is on the cover of Poets and Writers magazine (though the story is not yet available online)… Veronique de Turenne teams up with Ernest Marquez to chronicle Southern California’s century as a maritime hub in Port of Los Angeles… former Islands [...]
Stories in Travel books:
The travel writer and the monk
Today is publication day for The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer, who divides his time between Santa Barbara and Japan and first visited the exiled Dalai Lama at age 17. “A brilliant pairing of writer and subject,” says Publishers Weekly. We have to agree.
Read an excerpt [...]
SoCal So Cool
Donna’s on deadline on her new Southern California travel book. Lately she’s been everywhere: from the Tehachapis to Death Valley to Malibu; riding horses, meeting ostridges, patting llamas; eating hot dogs at a Padres Game in San Diego, tasting squash blossoms at the L.A. restaurant-of-the-moment Blue Velvet. Here’s a cool spinoff story about Rankin [...]
Summer hours
Yes, postings here at CaliforniaAuthors have been kinda lite lately. Kate’s been painting and Donna’s been on the road working on SoCal So Cool, a travel book for Norton/Countrymen Press (more to come later) that this week required visiting extremely cool places like El Capitan Canyon and Ostrich Land.
So we update when we can … [...]
The travel writer and the monk
Today is publication day for The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer, who divides his time between Santa Barbara and Japan and first visited the exiled Dalai Lama at age 17. “A brilliant pairing of writer and subject,” says Publishers Weekly. We have to agree.
Read an excerpt [...]
SoCal So Cool
Donna’s on deadline on her new Southern California travel book. Lately she’s been everywhere: from the Tehachapis to Death Valley to Malibu; riding horses, meeting ostridges, patting llamas; eating hot dogs at a Padres Game in San Diego, tasting squash blossoms at the L.A. restaurant-of-the-moment Blue Velvet. Here’s a cool spinoff story about Rankin [...]
Summer hours
Yes, postings here at CaliforniaAuthors have been kinda lite lately. Kate’s been painting and Donna’s been on the road working on SoCal So Cool, a travel book for Norton/Countrymen Press (more to come later) that this week required visiting extremely cool places like El Capitan Canyon and Ostrich Land.
So we update when we can … [...]



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