No book news today, just this perfect slice of California winter for your enjoyment, and our best wishes for a peaceful and productive 2009.
Kate & Donna
Stories in Site stuff:
Exploring Alaska, part II
Los Angeles author J. Michael Walker responds to yesterday’s post with his own suggestion.
He says: “Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss, around late 1980’s I suppose, would have to be a fairly irreplaceable book on outer Alaska, too.
“Parts of it —
swallowing whiskey? vodka? and stepping outside in sub-zero weather and freezing to death from [...]
Summer break at CaliforniaAuthors
I’m getting ready for my trip to Denver to experience the historic hoopla of the DNC and Donna is out exploring new destinations for her faithful travel readers. So, CaliforniaAuthors is taking a little late summer break this week. In the meantime, enjoy:
Ray Bradbury’s future prunes commercial.
Eating LA goes with author Denise Hamilton on a [...]
New tech at CaliforniaAuthors: Event search!
A happy announcement: CaliforniaAuthors has teamed with BookTour.com to offer literary event searches by zip code! BookTour is “the world’s largest, 100% free directory of author events” and now you can search the extensive BookTour database of literary events right from the pages of CaliforniaAuthors.com. That means you can find events around the corner or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 … [...]
Twenty-two new
California books were added today to our one-of-a-kind list of California new releases. Don’t miss it!
Fresh for February
Don’t miss our one-of-a-kind list of new California books, updated today with 19 new entries.
Exploring Alaska, part II
Los Angeles author J. Michael Walker responds to yesterday’s post with his own suggestion.
He says: “Going to Extremes by Joe McGinniss, around late 1980’s I suppose, would have to be a fairly irreplaceable book on outer Alaska, too.
“Parts of it —
swallowing whiskey? vodka? and stepping outside in sub-zero weather and freezing to death from [...]
Summer break at CaliforniaAuthors
I’m getting ready for my trip to Denver to experience the historic hoopla of the DNC and Donna is out exploring new destinations for her faithful travel readers. So, CaliforniaAuthors is taking a little late summer break this week. In the meantime, enjoy:
Ray Bradbury’s future prunes commercial.
Eating LA goes with author Denise Hamilton on a [...]
New tech at CaliforniaAuthors: Event search!
A happy announcement: CaliforniaAuthors has teamed with BookTour.com to offer literary event searches by zip code! BookTour is “the world’s largest, 100% free directory of author events” and now you can search the extensive BookTour database of literary events right from the pages of CaliforniaAuthors.com. That means you can find events around the corner or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 … [...]
Twenty-two new
California books were added today to our one-of-a-kind list of California new releases. Don’t miss it!
Fresh for February
Don’t miss our one-of-a-kind list of new California books, updated today with 19 new entries.
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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