Librarian Debbie Foster of El Cerrito is the lucky winner of an autographed copy of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Santa Barbara neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga.
“Cool! I’m looking forward to reading this book for my blog,” says Debbie, whose online home is called, appropriately, My Mind on Books.
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Update: Our latest Book Lotto winner
Book lotto: Human gets inside our heads
This coming week we’ll be giving away an autographed copy of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Gazzaniga is the director of UC Santa Barbara’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. His new book is an engaging (and easy reading) exploration of the latest research into the [...]
From blog to book in LA
LA Times reporter Jill Leovy has sold a book to Spiegel & Grau that expands on her excellent Homicide Report blog, which chronicled murders in Los Angeles County (845 in all) during 2007.
Publisher’s Lunch says Leovy’s book — The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe — will weave together “a [...]
In case you missed it: Does LA need the LAT?
Last week, LAT Chief Russ Stanton visited KRCW’s “Which Way LA?” to discuss the question with Warren Olney and panelists Emma Schafer, Public affairs consultant who runs Los Angeles Current Affairs Forum, Marc Cooper, Visiting Professor of Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Patrick Frey, Blogger, Patterico.com. From KCRW:
After the Chandler family sold [...]
Some BookExpo grazing
I’m enjoying browsing the wealth of eco-friendly books at BEA, including the new Greenopia guides to Los Angeles and San Francisco and the just-released A Spring without Bees by Michael Schacker.
Other choice goodies that found their way into my 100% reusable and recyclable book bag (courtesy of Chronicle Books) are this trio of Big [...]
A trio of author updates
After I wrote yesterday about Latinos In Lotusland, editor Daniel Olivas shared the backstory of the anthology’s magical cover. He says, “Yes, it is a beautiful cover. Bilingual Press is affiliated with Arizona State University, which has the largest Chicano art collection in the country. So, last year, they flew me out to [...]
A desktop for the launch pad
Think publishing is a high pressure biz? Here is my new desktop image, made from one of our photos taken earlier this month at the March Reserve Air Force Base, Airfest 2008. The Airfest airshow is a type-o-rama of warnings and designations. This one seemed like just what I needed during the last days of [...]
A new day at CaliforniaAuthors and a book lotto, too
Welcome to the new CaliforniaAuthors.com! Click around and you’ll find our familiar features with a fresh face and an easy-to-navigate new site.
To celebrate our re-launch, Kate and I are delighted to share an autographed copy of Mark Sarvas’ new novel, Harry, Revised.
Mark hosts the popular and often cheeky litblog, The Elegant Variation. Along [...]
Bookish LA
Kevin Roderick waxes on the nation’s biggest book market on KCRW and highlights some of SoCal’s new spring’s books — among them Latinos in Lotusland; Hollywood Crows; The Devils of Bakersfield; The Age Of Dreaming; and Great Escapes: Southern California.
There are something like fifteen million people living within the sound of my voice. So there’s [...]
Out there: three choice morsels this week
Roam … the City of Angels through the eyes of artist and newly published author J. Michael Walker.
Revel … as Derek Powazek explores how Weird Turns Pro.
Write … your personal essay with help from LA Times Book Editor David Ulin. (Only a few seats left in his Saturday workshop.)
In the future, we will all be online journalists
In an especially dreary week of newspaper layoffs, buyouts and bemoaning, the Word Count blog serves up a timely and very interesting Q&A with Michelle Nicolosi, “One Writer’s Journey From Print to Online News.”
Michelle, formerly a reporter at the Orange County Register, is an assistant managing editor at the Seattle P.I. She runs the [...]
She never leaves home without one
Author and columnist Patt Morrison shares her trademark chapeau collection in a video at the Times website. “You wear the hat,” says Patt. “You never ever let the hat wear you.”
Monkey Girl lotto update
We had a great response from across the country to this week’s Monkey Girl Sweepstakes.
Congratulations to our winners — Cheryl Shepherd-Adams and Janice Theriot will each receive a just-released copy of Monkey Girl: Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul autographed by author Edward Humes.
Here’s what the LA Times had to say about [...]
Face number one in anti-government-spying video
People for the American Way included Kate and Val Cohen’s protest photos in their new video against illegal domestic spying by our government. Check it out! Then sign the petition against telco immunity today.
Monkey Girl book lotto
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes is just out in paperback this week. We have TWO autographed copies to share with CaliforniaAuthors.com readers.
Want one?
Just send us an email [to info at californiaauthors.com] with Monkey Girl in the subject line and we’ll enter you in [...]
Audio extras
BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder shares his favorite podcasts, including fiction in The New Yorker. “This month, T. Coraghessan Boyle reads Tobias Wolff’s short story ‘Bullet in the Brain.’”
Writers’ strike optimism abounds
From this morning’s LAT: “The Writers Guild of America leadership recommended Saturday that striking writers approve a contract offer from television networks and movie studios, signaling a likely — but not immediate — resolution to the crippling labor impasse.”
And the Washington Post: “Jubilant screenwriters declared victory Saturday in their 14-week-old strike, hailing the [...]
Update: Our latest Book Lotto winner
Book lotto: Human gets inside our heads
This coming week we’ll be giving away an autographed copy of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique by Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Gazzaniga is the director of UC Santa Barbara’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. His new book is an engaging (and easy reading) exploration of the latest research into the [...]
From blog to book in LA
LA Times reporter Jill Leovy has sold a book to Spiegel & Grau that expands on her excellent Homicide Report blog, which chronicled murders in Los Angeles County (845 in all) during 2007.
Publisher’s Lunch says Leovy’s book — The Homicide Report: Black Men, Murder and America’s Unseen Catastrophe — will weave together “a [...]
In case you missed it: Does LA need the LAT?
Last week, LAT Chief Russ Stanton visited KRCW’s “Which Way LA?” to discuss the question with Warren Olney and panelists Emma Schafer, Public affairs consultant who runs Los Angeles Current Affairs Forum, Marc Cooper, Visiting Professor of Journalism at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Patrick Frey, Blogger, Patterico.com. From KCRW:
After the Chandler family sold [...]
Some BookExpo grazing
I’m enjoying browsing the wealth of eco-friendly books at BEA, including the new Greenopia guides to Los Angeles and San Francisco and the just-released A Spring without Bees by Michael Schacker.
Other choice goodies that found their way into my 100% reusable and recyclable book bag (courtesy of Chronicle Books) are this trio of Big [...]
A trio of author updates
After I wrote yesterday about Latinos In Lotusland, editor Daniel Olivas shared the backstory of the anthology’s magical cover. He says, “Yes, it is a beautiful cover. Bilingual Press is affiliated with Arizona State University, which has the largest Chicano art collection in the country. So, last year, they flew me out to [...]
A desktop for the launch pad
Think publishing is a high pressure biz? Here is my new desktop image, made from one of our photos taken earlier this month at the March Reserve Air Force Base, Airfest 2008. The Airfest airshow is a type-o-rama of warnings and designations. This one seemed like just what I needed during the last days of [...]
A new day at CaliforniaAuthors and a book lotto, too
Welcome to the new CaliforniaAuthors.com! Click around and you’ll find our familiar features with a fresh face and an easy-to-navigate new site.
To celebrate our re-launch, Kate and I are delighted to share an autographed copy of Mark Sarvas’ new novel, Harry, Revised.
Mark hosts the popular and often cheeky litblog, The Elegant Variation. Along [...]
Bookish LA
Kevin Roderick waxes on the nation’s biggest book market on KCRW and highlights some of SoCal’s new spring’s books — among them Latinos in Lotusland; Hollywood Crows; The Devils of Bakersfield; The Age Of Dreaming; and Great Escapes: Southern California.
There are something like fifteen million people living within the sound of my voice. So there’s [...]
Out there: three choice morsels this week
Roam … the City of Angels through the eyes of artist and newly published author J. Michael Walker.
Revel … as Derek Powazek explores how Weird Turns Pro.
Write … your personal essay with help from LA Times Book Editor David Ulin. (Only a few seats left in his Saturday workshop.)
In the future, we will all be online journalists
In an especially dreary week of newspaper layoffs, buyouts and bemoaning, the Word Count blog serves up a timely and very interesting Q&A with Michelle Nicolosi, “One Writer’s Journey From Print to Online News.”
Michelle, formerly a reporter at the Orange County Register, is an assistant managing editor at the Seattle P.I. She runs the [...]
She never leaves home without one
Author and columnist Patt Morrison shares her trademark chapeau collection in a video at the Times website. “You wear the hat,” says Patt. “You never ever let the hat wear you.”
Monkey Girl lotto update
We had a great response from across the country to this week’s Monkey Girl Sweepstakes.
Congratulations to our winners — Cheryl Shepherd-Adams and Janice Theriot will each receive a just-released copy of Monkey Girl: Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul autographed by author Edward Humes.
Here’s what the LA Times had to say about [...]
Face number one in anti-government-spying video
People for the American Way included Kate and Val Cohen’s protest photos in their new video against illegal domestic spying by our government. Check it out! Then sign the petition against telco immunity today.
Monkey Girl book lotto
Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America’s Soul by Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Humes is just out in paperback this week. We have TWO autographed copies to share with CaliforniaAuthors.com readers.
Want one?
Just send us an email [to info at californiaauthors.com] with Monkey Girl in the subject line and we’ll enter you in [...]
Audio extras
BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder shares his favorite podcasts, including fiction in The New Yorker. “This month, T. Coraghessan Boyle reads Tobias Wolff’s short story ‘Bullet in the Brain.’”
Writers’ strike optimism abounds
From this morning’s LAT: “The Writers Guild of America leadership recommended Saturday that striking writers approve a contract offer from television networks and movie studios, signaling a likely — but not immediate — resolution to the crippling labor impasse.”
And the Washington Post: “Jubilant screenwriters declared victory Saturday in their 14-week-old strike, hailing the [...]
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