http://www.californiaauthors.com/ CaliforniaAuthors.com is the online literary hub for California authors, writers, publishers, readers and booksellers. Find new releases, book news, author websites, bookstore listings, author events. en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 20:21:56 PST http://backend.userland.com/rss092 contact@californiaauthors.com (Kate Cohen) contact@californiaauthors.com (Kate Cohen) http://www.californiaauthors.com/img/caa_bug_144.gif http://www.californiaauthors.com/ 144 41 CaliforniaAuthors.com is the online literary hub for California authors, writers, publishers, readers and booksellers. Find new releases, book news, author websites, bookstore listings, author events. and other stray notes from around the web: • Pico Iyer shares his playlist with The New York Times. • Book Passage owner Bill ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001763.shtml The Malibu Times looks at the books locals are buying lately, among them California Poetry (the city's 2008 One Book, One City pick), The Wentworths ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001762.shtml Los Angeles leaders faced an outcry from residents and city workers this week over proposals to slash library services and park rangers. As the LA ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001761.shtml 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 ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001760.shtml This weekend I'll be at UCLA on Sunday soaking up the sunshine and signing copies of My California: Journeys by Great Writers with Edward Humes ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001759.shtml Author Edward Humes reviews LA Times columnist Steve Lopez's new book and finds it "a very human drama that is hard to put down." A ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001758.shtml Next week we are launching a newly re-designed californiaauthors.com and as part of the refurbishing process, we cannot accept new Author Directory listings until the ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001757.shtml RJ Smith at Los Angeles magazine interviews the six living ex-editors of the Los Angeles Times about the paper's past, its unpredictable new owner, ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001756.shtml "HarperCollins Publishers is forming a new publishing group that will substitute profit-sharing with authors for cash advances and will try to eliminate the costly ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001755.shtml "So I woke up this a.m. thinking about how unsuited most writers are to the kind of self-promotion — or any kind of promotion ... http://www.californiaauthors.com/archives/00001754.shtml