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SPD Bee-In: May 19th, 2008
Crown Point Gallery, San Francisco

Ritual public humiliation and spelling bee, featuring prominent San Francisco poets, novelists, intellectuals, and me.

Drinks, Nibbles and Spelling!

Doors open at 6:30 (Bee starts at 7:30 and lasts for about an hour)
Emcee: Josh Kornbluth, TV personality & Host of the Josh Kornbluth
Show.

Judge: Berkeley arts activist & cultural leader Penny Cooper

Tickets Now Available!
General Admission Ticket ($75):

Spellers (with more to come!):
* "Writers with Drinks" diva & last year's Queen Bee Charlie Anders
(Choir Boy )
* Cookbook Guru Mollie Katzen (The Enchanted Broccoli Forest )
* San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll
* KQED host of Forum Michael Krasny (Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk
Radio and Literary Life )
* Artist Catherine Wagner (Works represented at Museum of Modern
Art, N.Y., the Whitney, SF MOMA, among others)
* Novelist & Oprah's List author Lalita Tademy ( Red River )
* Jack Spicer biographer and former New York state Spelling Bee
champion Kevin Killian (Little Men )
* Ex-stripper Stephen Elliott (Happy Baby and Sex for America:
Politically Inspired Erotica )
* Novelist and poet Kim Addonizio (My Dreams Out in the Street )
* Political commentator George Lakoff (Don't Think of an Elephant!)
* Crime novelist Dominic Stansberry (The Ancient Rain )
* Crime novelist Marc Lecard (Vinnie's Head and Killer Year: A
Criminal Anthology )
* "Body+Soul" columnist, biographer and memoirist Frances Lefkowitz
(David Letterman and Marilyn Monroe )
* Poet and novelist Mary Mackey (The Notorious Mrs. Winston and
Breaking the Fever)

Location:
Crown Point Gallery
20 Hawthorne Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

http://www.spdbooks.org/bee.asp

May 30th, Los Angeles

I'll be at the American Booksellers Association's Eight Annual Author Luncheon at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Friday May 30th, during BookExpo America.

From the ABA website:

"Book Sense Author Luncheon
Friday, May 30; Los Angeles Convention Center. Booksellers participating in ABA’s Book Sense marketing program are invited to break bread with dozens of Book Sense-nominated authors at a gala lunch. This free event is always a highlight of BookExpo America. Reservations are limited to two people per bookstore and are on a first-come, first-served basis. Reserve now via an online form. Questions should be addressed to Mark Nichols at mark@bookweb.org."

I'll be signing copies of Vinnie's Head at 10:30 a.m. in the ABA Lounge, Room 515A in the West Hall of the Convention Center.

Out of the Past . . .

See photos from my debut reading and launch party at "M" is for Mystery Bookstore!

M Is for Mystery Bookstore
86 East Third Avenue
San Mateo, CA 94401
www.MforMystery.com
Phone: 650-401-8077
Toll free outside the Bay Area: 888-405-8077
Fax: 650-401-8079

More photos, this time from a reading at

Aunt Agatha's Used and New Mysteries,
Detection, and True Crime Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan