When: Friday, November 3, 6:30 pm to 8:30pm
Where: The Rickshaw Stopm 155 Fell Street, San Francisco

The San Francisco Writers Workshop is a San Francisco literary gem. It’s been running continuously since 1946 helping countless authors polish their work and launch their careers.

The Meridian Gallery has generously donated space for the SFWW to meet for many years. Now the gallery’s building is being gutted and rebuilt, so the Meridian must move to a new home.

I am one of several SFWW authors who are doing a special benefit evening of readings to raise funds for the Meridian’s move. Admission: $7 to $20 sliding scale.

Please join us. Here’s the line-up:

Host: TAMIM ANSARY, author of WEST OF KABUL, EAST OF NEW YORK and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SKY

MELODIE BOWSHER , author of MY LOST AND FOUND LIFE

MICHAEL CHOROST, author of REBUILT, winner of the 2006 PEN award for creative nonfiction

JOE QUIRK, author of THE ULTIMATE RUSH and SPERM ARE FROM MEN, EGGS ARE FROM WOMEN

DAVID HENRY STERRY, author of CHICKEN: SELF PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN FOR RENT and the forthcoming MASTER OF CEREMONIES: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, MURDER AND CHIPPENDALES

ERIKA MAILMAN, author of the forthcoming novels A WOMAN OF ILL FAME and HEXE

KEMBLE SCOTT (Scott James), author of the forthcoming novel SOMA

Come to the Union Street Starbuck’s for Lit and Latte at 6:30 p.m. Sunday Oct 22.

Starbuck’s is at 1899 Union Street on the corner of Union and Laguna in San Francisco 

Come for a reading and book discussion at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 16

A Great Good Place for Books

6120 La Salle Avenue OAKLAND

510-339-8210

http:// www.ggpbooks.com

BAD GIRLS reading scheduled for October 19th, 7 - 9 pm, at San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street. This all-women reading event is really going to rock! Info at www.insidestorytime.com

Come see and hear Cameron Tuttle, the original bad girl behind the Bad Girl’s Guide series, Jennifer Solow, author of the national bestseller The Booster, standup comic Mary Van Note, My Lost and Found author Melodie Bowsher and Wendy Merrill author of Falling Into Manholes. This is also your chance to hear from Kathi Kamen Goldmark, founder of the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock group that also includes Amy Tan and Stephen King.

BAD GIRLS on October 19^th, 7 - 9 pm, at San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop, a first all-female event, is really going to rock! Info at www.insidestorytime.com Come see and hear Cameron Tuttle, the original bad girl behind the Bad Girl’s Guide series, Jennifer Solow, author of the national bestseller The Booster,  standup comic Mary Van Note, My Lost and Found author Melodie Bowsher and Wendy Merrill author of Falling Into Manholes. This is also your chance to hear from Kathi Kamen Goldmark, founder of the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock group that also includes Amy Tan and Stephen King.

I’m going to be reading at an Inside Storytime event for “Bad Girls” novelists on Thursday October 19 from 7-9 pm at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco (only those over 21 are admitted, as alcohol is served). More info at www.insidestorytime.com

I’m not sure if the authors or our book heroines are supposed to be “bad” — but it’s cool either way.  Even though Ashley, my novel’s main character isn’t bad, she definitely is willful and has attitude, at least in the beginning. Hey, a little ‘tude isn’t bad. Keeps us from being doormats, right?

Anyway, here’s the nitty-gritty: BAD GIRLS on October 19^th, 7 - 9 pm, at San Francisco’s Rickshaw Stop, an all-female event, is really going to rock! Come see Cameron Tuttle, the original bad girl behind the Bad Girl’s Guide series, which have sold over a million copies; Famous author Jennifer Solow, author of the national bestseller The Booster, guest MC standup comic Mary Van Note, first place winner of the 2006 Twisted Biscuit competition; Melodie Bowsher will read from the bad girl novel of the season, My Lost and Found Life; Kathi Kamen Goldmark, founder of the Rock Bottom Remainders, a rock group that also includes Amy Tan and Stephen King; and Wendy Merrill will read from Falling Into Manholes, just sold to Putnam.