This photo and the one below were taken by Rob Daly at our Kicking In the Wall workshop/lunch/celebration at Tom Hartman’s studio in Santa Monica on Saturday. A few of the writers featured in the book were missing, but at some point in the next few months you can catch them all. Below is the email blast message I sent out today with the dates of upcoming bookstore readings.(in the pictures: Cynthia Lim, Loren Stephens, Ruth Rudnick, Jeri Okamoto Floyd, Denise Emanuel Clemen, Bob Goldman, Elizabeth Aquino, Kathy Katims, Tom Hartman and me.)
Dear Friends, Family, Colleagues, and Readers –
My latest book, Kicking in the Wall has just been published by New World Library. A companion book to A Year of Writing Dangerously, it has 365 writing prompts and exercises, inspiring quotes, plus examples of what sixteen of my students wrote in five minute exercises.
I’d be so grateful if you’d share the news of its publication with any writers, aspiring writers, or English teachers that you know. It’s also a book that would be useful for anyone keeping a journal. (A portion of the royalties will be donated to WriteGirl, a nonprofit helping teenage girls write their way to more positive futures. www.WriteGirl.org)
If you live in or around Los Angeles, please come hear us read at a local bookstore:
May 16th Flintridge Books in La Canada at 7:30
June 18th Diesel Books in Brentwood at 7:00
June 27th Pages Bookstore in Manhattan Beach at 7:00
August 8th at Vroman’s Books in Pasadena at 7:00
xxoo Barbara
“I would go as far as I could and hit a wall, my own imagined limitations. And then I met a fellow who gave me his secret, and it was pretty simple. When you hit a wall, just kick it in.” – Patti Smith
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