Submit your work, get rejected, and whenever you can, take a writer friend like Paulette Perhach to brunch at an adorable Los Angeles cafe.
Los Angeles
The Power to Encourage Other Writers
Ever since the Pasadena Festival of Women Authors a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been thinking about the power that writers have to encourage other writers.
7 Years of Blogging
This week marks 7 years of blogging! I can hardly believe it. Back when I started blogging, I was a grad student working on my first novel about an ostrich […]
A Modern Literary Salon
Before Saturday, I had never been to a literary salon. I guess I figured they were a thing of the past. When I pictured a literary salon I saw Virginia […]
Goodbye UCLA
This evening is my last UCLA Extension class for the foreseeable future. Over the past six months, I’ve taken two extension courses, Novel IV and Novel V, with Mark Sarvas, […]
New Gig
One of the perks of living in LA (and I have to admit that there aren’t many) is that I get to meet famous people. Okay, maybe meet is a […]