Publisher’s Weekly recounts the unlikely journey of novice Bay Area filmmakers and identical twins Logan and Noah Miller:
“In January 2006, Logan and Noah Miller’s father, a homeless alcoholic, died in jail. The twins, aspiring filmmakers with no meaningful experience, had for years wanted to make an autobiographical film about their dad, and on the day [...]
Stories in Northern California:
Miracle movie nets a book deal too
Paperback Dreams and indy booksellers
Frances Dinkelspiel attended a BEA preview of Paperback Dreams, a new documentary by Alex Beckstead about the struggles of Cody’s Books in Berkeley and Kepler’s Books in Menlo Parks. It made her cry.
She writes:
The film is quite good as it traces the history of these two iconic West Coast bookstores. It also establishes the [...]
Performance art
Roshawnda Bettencourt, a student at Placer County’s Oakmont High, captured first place in California’s Poetry Out Loud state finals. She recited “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows [...]
On the road with My California
Five California cities — Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Whittier, and Benicia — have embraced My California: Journeys by Great Writers for their One-City, One-Book programs. Folks in the Northern California community of Benicia are reading the anthology right now.
Perhaps you’d care to join them?
On Tuesday, March 18, My California contributor and Sacramento Bee [...]
Yup, the book’s still got legs!
We just learned that the Benicia Public Library has selected My California: Journeys by Great Writers as its community book for 2008.
The Bay Area community of Benicia is the fifth California city to choose the anthology. Librarian Helaine Bowles said her town will be reading My California and hosting events from March 1 to [...]
Book fest weekend in California
Interesting story in the Carmel Pine Cone about Jim and Cindy McGillen, a semi-retired TV couple that spent more than $320,000 to host this weekend’s first-ever Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival.
They lined up a collection of top authors to appear. Tickets are $500 each.
“No offense to Toledo, but I was not asking people to [...]
Miracle movie nets a book deal too
Paperback Dreams and indy booksellers
Frances Dinkelspiel attended a BEA preview of Paperback Dreams, a new documentary by Alex Beckstead about the struggles of Cody’s Books in Berkeley and Kepler’s Books in Menlo Parks. It made her cry.
She writes:
The film is quite good as it traces the history of these two iconic West Coast bookstores. It also establishes the [...]
Performance art
Roshawnda Bettencourt, a student at Placer County’s Oakmont High, captured first place in California’s Poetry Out Loud state finals. She recited “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows [...]
On the road with My California
Five California cities — Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Whittier, and Benicia — have embraced My California: Journeys by Great Writers for their One-City, One-Book programs. Folks in the Northern California community of Benicia are reading the anthology right now.
Perhaps you’d care to join them?
On Tuesday, March 18, My California contributor and Sacramento Bee [...]
Yup, the book’s still got legs!
We just learned that the Benicia Public Library has selected My California: Journeys by Great Writers as its community book for 2008.
The Bay Area community of Benicia is the fifth California city to choose the anthology. Librarian Helaine Bowles said her town will be reading My California and hosting events from March 1 to [...]
Book fest weekend in California
Interesting story in the Carmel Pine Cone about Jim and Cindy McGillen, a semi-retired TV couple that spent more than $320,000 to host this weekend’s first-ever Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival.
They lined up a collection of top authors to appear. Tickets are $500 each.
“No offense to Toledo, but I was not asking people to [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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