Events

2 Pitchapaloozas in 24 hours. 3,000 miles apart.  They said it couldn’t be done.  They were wrong.

It all started on a beautiful Virginia Saturday afternoon at the James River Writers Conference, in the shockingly excellent city of Richmond.  JRWC came into our lives as the result of brutal failure.  Two years ago I set up a DC area mini-tour for an infamous book I put together.  My girl Shawna Kenney (whose memoir I Was a Teenage Dominatrix–which is about when she was a teenage dominatrix) was just optioned by Vince Vaughn) booked us into Poets & Busboys in Washington (packed to the rafters!), Atomic Books in Baltimore (filled to the gills!), and Chop Suey in Richmond.  When Shawna and I walked into Chop Suey, there were exactly 0 customers in the store.  There were

“They Walk Among Us” is something from a ‘50’s space invaders movie, a tag line from the McCarthy era, and an accurate description of sex workers in clubs. The oldest profession thrives in late night venues, where liquored-up potential Johns with about as much chance of scoring as the New York Jets are easy marks. Tables filled with big spenders invariably attract ladies of the evening, especially when they’ve already been agitated by waitresses who in some quarters have been described as “half-hookers.” The man who just laid out $5,000 on sticky liquids probably isn’t going to get laid after all, and there lies an opportunity.
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Some nice love from Abby Ehmann on NearSay

http://newyork.nearsay.com/nyc/east-village-les/arts-culture-sex-worker-literati-bowery-poetry-club-nov-28

http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/books/593721/sex-worker-literati

This story starts when I was 17, alone in Hollywood with $27 in the pocket of my nuthugging elephantbells.  I had just arrived to begin my collegiate career at Immaculate Heart College, where I planned to study existential under a bunch of radical nuns.  That night, while admiring Marilyn Monroe’s handprints in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, I was approached by a very charming man wearing a shirt emblazoned with the word: SEXY.  He invited me back to his place for steak.  Turned out to be the most expensive steak of my life.  The steak was drugged .  SEXY raped me.  I escaped with my life.  But the happy-go-lucky lad who breezed into that apartment died in that room.  SEXY killed him.  I sprinted out of there broken and bleeding.  Within the week I was in the sex business.  I didn’t know it at the time, but I was suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.  The part of my brain responsible for emotion was engorged, and the part responsible for communication shriveled.  I was a living breathing fully-loaded semi-automatic weapon just looking for an excuse to go off.  So given my economic situation, (making minimum-wage frying chicken), my alienation from my parents, and my newly acquired mental illness, it seemed absolutely like my best option.  I was in the sex business for nine months.  One human gestation period.  But it changed me forever, and in ways I wasn’t even aware of for years to come.  Certainly I had great times in that world, and made gigantic money for a person my age and with my work experience.  But I also downloaded the sexual trauma I encountered in that world, and it infected me like a virus.

In Montclair a nip is in the air and the leaves are putting on a Technicolor light show: vivid violets, magnificent magentas, oppulent oranges, mellow yellows, and everything in between. Fall is falling, Olive is now officially 3 going on 19, & I’m glad to still be alive.

Just got back from Hollywood where we finalized a partnership between myself & Marta Kauffman (co-creator of the TV show Friends) to turn my groundbreaking anthology Hos, Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys (written w/ uber-mensch Richard Martin) into a modern dance piece, to bring to Lincoln Center. I am so excited to be embarking with on this endeavor with the brilliant, funny and large-hearted Ms. Kauffman.

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?

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

totally stoked about returning to happy ending w/ Litquake NY: amazing line-up of great readers/writers: Jack Boulware, Sean Wilsey, Bruce Weber, Cintra Wilson, Ben Greenman

http://litcrawl.org/events/litquake-rocks-new-york

I will be taking the how to get successfully published  dog and pony show to Find Grind on September 18 at 1 PM. now all I need is a dog and a pony.

http://www.thefinegrindcoffeebar.com/events/the-fine-print-%E2%80%9Chelping-talented-writers-get-successfully-published%E2%80%9D-with-david-henry-sterry-1pm/

Sex Worker Literati is moving uptown – and by uptown we mean the Bowery – for a lust-drenched 1 year anniversary cavalcade extravaganza.  After packing them in downtown every month for a year, Sex Worker Literati sheds its skin and reinvents itself at the great East Village landmark that has come to represent the finest in words: Bowery Poetry Club.  Besides our usual collection of stranger than fiction tales from the seething underbelly of America’s sex trenches, we’re adding ultra-live and brazen burlesque.  It hardly seems a year since the groundbreaking anthology Hos, Hookers, Call Girls and Rent Boys shocked America by rocketing onto the front page of the Sunday New York Times Book Review.  Come hear the hysterical, sad, crazy, heartbreaking, ballbreaking, mind-blowing stories from America’s shamed and glamorized, ostracized and glorified, reviled and worshiped sex workers.  PhDs and high school dropouts, soccer moms and jailbirds, $5000 a night call girls, $10 crack hos and hard-working rent boys, Sex Worker Literati is the living breathing embodiment of this internationally acclaimed anthology.  In the flesh.  David Henry Sterry and Zoe Hansen will be riding herd over an all-star lineup of the finest ho writer/performers money can buy.  & IT’S ALL STILL FREE!!!

THE GLORIOUS WORLD CUP: A FANATIC’S GUIDE
Alan Black & David Henry Sterry

The Glorious World Cup is a smash and grab must-have guide to South Africa 2010. World Cup villains and bloody national grudges, country and player profiles, bags of footie history, and lots more. For those who like their soccer with a side of brains, die hard soccer fanatic David Henry Sterry breaks down the divas and the divers, the winners and the whiners, the myths and the madness.

SATURDAY, May 15, 3:00
WATCHUNG BOOKSTORE – MONTCLAIR, NJ

KISMET PRODUCTIONS & SOF

Sex Worker Literati

Hosted by Audacia Ray & David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
First Thursday of the Month. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10
FREE
Portion of proceeds from the bar supports sex workers rights groups

http://www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com/february-4-love-pain/

JANUARY 7 HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE 302 BROOME ST. 8 PM

http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/sex-dating/81687/winter-sex-and-dating-events-dec-31-jan-6

SEX WORKER LITERATI

MY FIRST TIME

There are many ways to pop a cherry.

Cum find out who how hos, hookers, call girls and rent boys popped theirs.

Lunacy, madness, insanity, depravity &

A true story of an anxious Virgin seduced by an English bulldog.

Thursday, October 29, doors at 7pm, show at 8:05pm
What: Literary Death Match
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
David Henry Sterry

Thursday, November 5th, 7:30-10
Sex Worker Literati
303 Broome St, NYC

Friday, November 6th from 7-9pm
HOS, HOOKERS Reading with editor David Henry Sterry and contributor Shawna Kenney
Where: Atomic Books
3620 Falls Rd
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-662-4444

Sunday, November 8th at 1pm
HOS, HOOKERS Reading with editor David Henry Sterry and contributor Shawna Kenney
Where: Chop Suey Books
2913 W. Cary St.
Richmond, VA 23221
804-422-8066

Thursday, October 29, doors at 7pm, show at 8:05pm
What: Literary Death Match
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
David Henry Sterry

Thursday, November 5th, 7:30-10
Sex Worker Literati
303 Broome St, NYC

Friday, November 6th from 7-9pm
HOS, HOOKERS Reading with editor David Henry Sterry and contributor Shawna Kenney
Where: Atomic Books
3620 Falls Rd
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-662-4444

Sunday, November 8th at 1pm
HOS, HOOKERS Reading with editor David Henry Sterry and contributor Shawna Kenney
Where: Chop Suey Books
2913 W. Cary St.
Richmond, VA 23221
804-422-8066

Thursday, October 29, doors at 7pm, show at 8:05pm

What: Literary Death Match
Where: Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
David Henry Sterry

Thursday, November 5th, 7:30-10
Sex Worker Literati
303 Broome St, NYC

Friday, November 6th from 7-9pm
HOS, HOOKERS Reading with editor David Henry Sterry and contributor Shawna Kenney
Where: Atomic Books
3620 Falls Rd
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-662-4444

Sunday, November 8th at 1pm
HOS, HOOKERS Reading with editor David Henry Sterry and contributor Shawna Kenney
Where: Chop Suey Books
2913 W. Cary St.
Richmond, VA 23221
804-422-8066

SEX WORKER LITERATI OCTOBER 1 HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE 8 PM

OCTOBER 1 HAPPY ENDING LOUNGE 8 PM

SEX WORKER LITERATI

CUM CELEBRATE THE OFFICIAL NEW YORK LAUNCH OF

HOS HOOKERS CALL GIRLS RENT BOYS

“Eye-opening, astonishing, honest and funny… riveting, graphic,
politically incorrect and mostly unquotable in this newspaper.” Toni Bentley, NY Times

CUM EXPERIENCE THE PHENOMENON
CUM PARTY WITH SEX WORKERS
David Henry Sterry – golf ho
Audacia Ray – geek ho
Justin Jones – surfer ho
Zoe Hansen – smack ho
Shawna Kenney – music ho
Jennifer Blowdryer – fabulous ho
Sinnamon Love – fierce ho
Perry Brass – man ho
Melissa Petro – heart of gold ho
Jodi Sh. Doff – Times Square ho
Lauri Shaw – problem child ho

Just a quick update on the overwhelming response to our new anthology. And news on upcoming bi (coastal) events. I think they will be packed, so cum early & cum often.  Thanks, David Henry Sterry
EVENTS:
Thursday Sept 3: LA Book Launch: BOOK SOUP 7pm 8818 Sunset Blvd
http://www.laweekly.com/events/david-henry-sterry-and-r-j-martin-jr-s-hos-hookers-call-girls-and-rent-boys-professionals-writing-on-life-love-money-and-sex–682734/
Thursday Sept 3:  Sex Worker Literati: Happy Ending Lounge 8pm 302 Broome St (NYC)
http://www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com/reading-series/
Wednesday Sept 9: In the Flesh: Hustler Store LA 8pm 8920 Sunset Blvd.
REVIEWS
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/books/review/Bentleyt.html?_r=2&8bu&emc=bua1
http://therumpus.net/2009/08/hos-hookers-call-girls-and-rent-boys-professionals-writing-on-life-love-money-and-sex/
http://tigerbeatdown.com/?p=448#more-448
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6667888.html?
http://www.nypress.com/article-20211-the-happy-hook-book.html

NYTBR – 8/23/09

http://www.laweekly.com/events/david-henry-sterry-and-r-j-martin-jr-s-hos-hookers-call-girls-and-rent-boys-professionals-writing-on-life-love-money-and-sex–682734/

Sex Worker Literati

Hosted by Audacia Ray & David Henry Sterry
Happy Ending, 302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge, in New York City
First Thursday of the Month. Doors at 7 pm, reading from 8-10

THURSDAY AUGUST 6, 8PM

FREE
Portion of proceeds from the bar supports sex workers rights groups

KISMET PRODUCTIONS & SOFT SKULL PROUDLY PRESENT
www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com

HO’S, HOOKERS, CALLGIRLS & RENTBOYS:
PROFESSIONALS WRITING ON LIFE, LOVE, MONEY & SEX
NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE & AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE

The miracle is manifest.  The anthology has hit the streets.  Half a decade in the making, this love’s labor, the product of so much blood, sweat, tears and other assorted body fluids, has finally traveled down the birth canal, and has been delivered by an able-bodied team of midwives, editors, dulas, copy editors, birth coaches, art directors and sweaty worried nerve-wracked family and relatives.  Below please find information about the website and events.  Many thanks to all involved.  We are very proud of this book.

KISMET PRODUCTIONS & SOFT SKULL PROUDLY PRESENT
www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com

HO’S, HOOKERS, CALLGIRLS & RENTBOYS:
PROFESSIONALS WRITING ON LIFE, LOVE, MONEY & SEX
NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE & AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE

The miracle is manifest.  The anthology has hit the streets.  Half a decade in the making, this love’s labor, the product of so much blood, sweat, tears and other assorted body fluids, has finally traveled down the birth canal, and has been delivered by an able-bodied team of midwives, editors, dulas, copy editors, birth coaches, art directors and sweaty worried nerve-wracked family and relatives.  Below please find information about the website and events.  Many thanks to all involved.  We are very proud of this book.

KISMET PRODUCTIONS & SOFT SKULL PROUDLY PRESENT
www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com

HO’S, HOOKERS, CALLGIRLS & RENTBOYS:
PROFESSIONALS WRITING ON LIFE, LOVE, MONEY & SEX
NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE & AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE
The miracle is manifest.  The anthology has hit the streets.  Half a decade in the making, this love’s labor, the product of so much blood, sweat, tears and other assorted body fluids, has finally traveled down the birth canal, and has been delivered by an able-bodied team of midwives, editors, dulas, copy editors, birth coaches, art directors and sweaty worried nerve-wracked family and relatives.  Below please find information about the website and events.  Many thanks to all involved.  We are very proud of this book.

KISMET PRODUCTIONS & SOFT SKULL PROUDLY PRESENT
www.hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com

HO’S, HOOKERS, CALLGIRLS & RENTBOYS:
PROFESSIONALS WRITING ON LIFE, LOVE, MONEY & SEX
NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE & AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE

The miracle is manifest.  The anthology has hit the streets.  Half a decade in the making, this love’s labor, the product of so much blood, sweat, tears and other assorted body fluids, has finally traveled down the birth canal, and has been delivered by an able-bodied team of midwives, editors, dulas, copy editors, birth coaches, art directors and sweaty worried nerve-wracked family and relatives.  Below please find information about the website and events.  Many thanks to all involved.  We are very proud of this book.

92nd ST Y: The Art of the Memoir, SUN. FEB 15, 7:30pm

I am honored to be bringing my Art of the Memoir to the 92nd St. Y, with an all-star cast.  This started last year when I reached out to Kathryn Harrison and Phillip Lopate, asking if they’re like to appear on an Art of the Memoir panel with me.  Both said yes, but we couldn’t come up with a date.  That’s when I approached the 92nd St. Y.  They were so warm and nice. Jennifer Giunta Hausler brought the whole thing together, and I thank her for that. Anyways, hope to see you there in the flesh, or in spirit. Thanks, David Henry Sterry

SEX WORKER LITERATI EVENT
KGB Bar 85 East 4th Street New York, NY
Fri Feb. 6, 2009 7pm

$EX AFTER THE CRASH
Myths, fairy tales, and real strategies for surviving when your body is your business. In a city recovering from Ponzi schemes, inflated earnings, and rampant exuberance, sex workers struggle to deliver essential pleasures – and pay their bills.
Reading, discussion, Q&A, book signing.**
Meet three local authors who insert the term Sex Worker Literati deep into the 21st century American vernacular.

Elisabeth Eaves, author of ‘Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping,’ is deputy editor of the opinions section at Forbes.com.

The Art of Memoir January 25: 12-5 PM  Los Angeles, CA. $125.00

What to Expect:
Bring your story and let David and Daisy help you craft and plot your own hero’s journey. Tell your story and leave with a plan toward putting it into print. No matter what structure, dramatic or prose, David and Daisy will help you find your voice.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-henry-sterry/university-presidents-adm_b_156783.html 

DAVID HENRY STERRY

DOES LA

HUSTLER STORE, HOLLYWOOD: Porn, Strippers and Murder: True Stories of the Ugliest Man at Chippendales, and an Accidental Pornstar, with the legendary Georgina Spelvin, starring Stan Kent, the naughtiest madman in Hollywood, January 22*

VROMANS, PASADENA: Art of the Memoir: Telling and Selling Your Life Stories, with the amazing ELECTROBOY Andy Behrman, Friday, January 23

CIRCUS BOOKS, HOLLYWOOD: Starring the fabulous Georgina Spelvin, author of The Devil Made Me To It, a beautifully written hands-on, up-close-and-personal account of making the greatest porn movie in history.  And the goddess Nina Hartley, movie star, educator, entrepreneur and author of Nina Hartley’s Guide to Sex, January 24

DAVID HENRY STERRY

DOES LA

VROMANS, PASADENA: Art of the Memoir: Telling and Selling Your Life Stories, with the amazing ELECTROBOY Andy Berman, Wednesday, January 23

HUSTLER STORE, HOLLYWOOD: Porn, Strippers and Murder: True Stories of the Ugliest Man at Chippendales, and an Accidental Pornstar, with the legendary Georgina Spelvin, starring Stan Kent, the naughtiest madman in Hollywood, January 22*

CIRCUS BOOKS, HOLLYWOOD: Starring the fabulous Georgina Spelvin, author of The Devil Made Me To It, a beautifully written hands-on, up-close-and-personal account of making the greatest porn movie in history.  And the goddess Nina Hartley, movie star, educator, entrepreneur and author of Nina Hartley’s Guide to Sex, January 24