Please come to Diesel Books in Brentwood next Tuesday (June 18th) if you’re in LA. We’re having a party for KICKING IN THE WALL and some of my fabulous students who are in the book will be reading, and I’ll talk about how to kickstart your writing with 5 minute exercises. Oh, and did I mention the wine?

If you live in the South Bay, we’ll be doing both reading and party at Pages bookstore in Manhattan Beach.(June 27th) Both bookstore events start at 7:00.

On August 5th we’ll be at Vroman’s in Pasadena. (Not the 8th as I announced to about a thousand people in an email blast.)

And other stuff:

Next Thursday, June 20th, I’ll be reading with five other writers in Victoria Zackheim’s “Women’s Voices” at the Pacific Palisades Library at 6:30.

I’m teaching a three hour writing workshop through UCLA Arts and Healing on Saturday, June 22nd, 9:30 – 12:30 in Santa Monica. Come join us. For more information: http://www.uclartsandhealing.net/programs.aspx , on August 21st a mini-workshop at the Santa Monica Library 3:00-4:00, and a three hour workshop at Book Passage in San Francisco October 5th.

My UCLA Extension classes for the fall and winter are Advanced Non-Fiction in October and November for six weeks, and a four day intensive version of Courage & Craft in the Writers Studio In early February.

Hope to see you at a bookstore reading or in a workshop!