I am absolutely ecstatic to be reading at Litquake on Sports Night with my boy Alan Black, the Legend-in-his-own-time Jack Boulware, and an all-star cavalcade of San Francisco’s best and brightest.
http://litquake.org/events/sports
This is my Little League team I was eight years old in Hueytown Alabama. Can you tell which one is me?
Here’s an interview I did on Fox yesterday about my friend Melissa Petro. She is a smart, responsible, talented, capable young woman who’s being shamed and vilified for writing about her time as a sex worker. Let’s stand by her and let the world know that sex workers are not monsters who can’t teach kids, or be anything they want to be. Listen how much hate is heaped upon her by the “psychologist” and the “mommy”. Shameful.
Thanks to everybody for a great great night! Next show: Tricks or Treats )ct 24, Bowery Poetry Club.
All photos by the amazing Carlos Detres of Whiskey Dregs
I can’t tell you how supremo-psyched I am that Toni will be gracing us with her bad ass. Toni Bentley was a dancer with George Ballanchine’s New York City Ballet. She is the author of many books, including The Surrender, which was name one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books 0f 2004. Her essay, “The Bad Lion” is appearing in “Best American Essays 2010″ published this month edited by Christopher Hitchens. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a regular contributor to the New York Times, and speaks at Harvard. http://www.tonibentley.com
Saudade. That’s Brazilian for being happy and sad at the same time. I always feel that way as summer dies and Old Man Winter gets ready to blow cold all up in me. And this year’s no exception. I’m sad that another summer has come and gone. It has become increasingly obvious that I’m never going to get to play shortstop for the New York Yankees, and that makes me sad. I didn’t get to swim nearly enough in the ocean this summer, and that makes me very sad. But on the happy side, I got to hang out with Olive in Paris which was magnifique. http://www.davidhenrysterry.com/olive-in-paris/. I got to spend a week working in Amsterdam. I got to watch a ton and a half of the World Cup soccer and talk on NPR about it. And I have much to look forward to as Indian Summer peeks around the corner. First and foremost, Olive turns three on September 13. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. “Cake!” she said.
David Henry Sterry, Arielle Eckstut, Kathi Goldmark & Sam Barry will hear your book pitch & pick a winner. Kick start your writing career!
http://litquake.org/events/litquake%E2%80%99s-pitchapalooza
Presented by Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to participate in the first-ever writers’ conference sponsored by the independent booksellers who can help you sell your books! Working from the premise that you have mastered the craft of writing and are ready to take an active part in getting your book published, the industry
experts at this conference will prepare you to assess the publishing opportunities currently available and provide step-by-step guidelines that will help you get your book into print, into bookstores, and into the hands of readers.
As a bonus, attendees will enjoy an Author Luncheon and Author Banquet with some of the most successful writers of our time.
Saturday, September 25, 2010 Marriott Denver Tech Center
“Pitchapalooza” The “American Idol” for Books
Moderator/creator of “Pitchapalooza” is Arielle Eckstut,
author of THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO GETTING YOUR
BOOK PUBLISHED: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It …
Successfully!, revised for 2010 from Workman Publishing.
Arielle is an agent-at-large at the Levine Greenberg Literary
Agency, the author of seven books, and a successful entrepreneur
whose iconic company, LittleMissMatched, grossed over
30 million in retail sales last year.
New York Times bestselling author Timothy Ferris (THE
4-HOUR WORKWEEK) says about THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE:
I started with nothing but an idea, and then I bought this book.
Soon I had an A-list agent, a near six-figure advance, and
multiple TV deals in the works. Buy it and memorize it. This
little tome is the quiet secret of rockstar authors.
This panel is a terrific opportunity for anyone who has an idea
for a book OR who has a finished book but needs help pitching
it to bookstores.
Everyone in the audience will benefit from the process, but only
the first 10 people to register and pay for the conference may
actually make their pitch and receive a critique from the panel
that includes Gayle Shanks, immediate Past President of the
American Booksellers Association, owner of Changing Hands
Bookstore in Tempe, AZ; Katie Schmidt, Small Publisher Liaison
for Tattered Cover Bookstore; and Phoebe Gaston, Sales
Rep for Workman Publishing Group.
The winner of Pitchapalooza receives a half-hour consultation
