I know. I’ve slipped through the cracks the past couple of weeks. Sometimes a girl just needs to fall off the radar. I’ve been on what some call “Holiday.” Webster’s Dictionary says holiday is a day of rest from work. Well, I beg to argue. Just because you’re not at work and on “Holiday” doesn’t mean you’re not…

October is Roctober with Litquake! We have readings galore for you this month!

FIRST UP, join us for our regularly scheduled event at Studio 333 in Sausalito, October 11. 7pm. This very special show features writers from the audience who entered their names in the drawings over the months. 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, 7-9pm. $5. 

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Susan Spence has always been intrigued with life in the west in the 1880s. She researched historical accounts and first-person narratives as she prepared to write A Story of the West. A lifelong resident of the west, she currently lives in Montana on an old sheep shearing station with lots of furry critters and one partially furry critter. This is her first novel, and she is busily…

Photo Piracy

I have had many photos stolen off the internet.  Last week I found them on a gay guy's cute faces website, a Russian mail order bride website, and a Facebook page for women who love cowboys.  I am not going to digress into details, as I worked through it, and learned how to use water marked photos I have in an online art gallery called http://www.artflakes.com/en/shop/megan-oteri.    I got so bent out of shape…

Awesome guest post from Sabra Wineteer on how she won a contest to go to the Key West Literary seminar. http://www.pamwrites.net/2012/02/15/good-enough-or-great-enough-winning-contests-for-juried-conferences/

http://www.pamwrites.net/2012/02/08/short-stories-self-publishing-yea-or-nay/

New Book: AZ Way Out West & Wacky featured at A+ Book Fairs 12/3/11…

One of the wonderful things about having a book come out is that you are suddenly thrust into this lovely community of other writers who share some of your same interests. The writing world-- which seemed for months on end while you toiled away on your book about as big as the your desk top--suddenly feels more…

Civil disobedience is on the rise. This can be a good thing, as is the case in Israel this summer. Israeli women are risking criminal prosecution by going to the beach. They are taking Palestinian women along to protest decades of dehumanization. Read the full story on my…

Joanne “Buckshot” Bryant was a notorious bank and train robber and is possibly best-remembered as the Queen of the Rustlers in the American West of the 1800′s. It could truly be said that this queen came from a family of outlaw aristocracy. Her parents ran the infamous Bryant Gang in Australia and may have even known the outback bandit…

Last week while picking up my Aunt Lafayette’s granddaughter Tess at The Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, thoughts of other times at airports flooded my head. First came the memory of waiting, then waiting some more. Arriving way too early my husband and I sat around watching people. Of course I’m reading a book while occasionally glancing up when someone strolls by. The world is made up of all sorts of faces. How can millions of individuals look so…

I'm doing a mini West Coast tour, which hits Good Vibrations in Berkeley January 27th, Booksmith January 28th (with Violet Blue, rest of lineup TBA for both of these!) and February 1st in LA at <a href="http://www.cocodemerusa.com">Coco de Mer</a>. Other events around my book <a href="http://gottahaveitbook.wordpress.com/"><i>Gotta Have It: 69 Stories of Sudden Sex</i></a> are also in the works for a range of locations, from Minneapolis to the UK, but…